应对论坛23 March 2021: Book publishing

Ethical considerations around book publishing

Periodically, COPE gets requests for the development of discussion documents, guidance and flowcharts on publication ethics issues related to book publishing. Many of our members publish both journals and books, and a number of these members reference COPE guidance on journal publishing and ethics as providing useful information on particular topics related to research and publication ethics.

书籍出版中的道德详情是什么？书籍出版是否需要对出版伦理独立考虑？

What are we looking at when we talk about books?

书籍涵盖一系列材料，其中许多材料不同，许多人在书籍发布中相同。书籍可以是原始的专着，选唱，教科书或会议诉讼。

• Original monographs include original research, whether theoretical or empirical. These can be sole authored or co-authored and will usually be published after full peer review.
• Anthologies come in various forms. They can be: a collection of previously published articles which are brought together in a thematic manner; a collection of solicited original articles on a particular theme; or a combination of original and previously published articles on a particular theme. Anthologies may go through various reviews, ranging from editor reviews of proposals to traditional double blind peer review.
• 文本书籍可以是用于为教育目的的特定主题组织建立知识的书籍，并且可以针对某种程度的学生学习。文本书籍可能会或可能不会收到与专着的同行评审标准相同。
• Conference proceedings. COPE will address this topic separately at a later date.

书籍可以由许多不同类型的出版过程发布，包括越来越自我出版。

Questions for discussion

1. Are most of the publication ethics issues the same in book publishing as in journal publishing (eg, plagiarism, authorship, ethics approval, consent, peer review)?
2. Are there particular problems with books (eg, how to retract a full book? How to retract part of a book–a single chapter within an anthology/edited volume?).
3. Should proposal review count as peer review? Does selected chapter review count as peer review?
4. Do we need to develop a taxonomy of book publishing practices and parallel advice on publishing ethics in books?
5. 我们从哪里开始？

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Key differences between books and journals

书籍和期刊之间的一些关键差异，以及在讨论中考虑的示例案例：

Key differences between books and journals, and sample cases（PDF）

我们谢谢剑桥大学克莱特·克里奇大学出版社，Tamara Welschot的Springer自然和翁威斯·沃斯·沃斯·沃斯·沃斯（Tim Wakeford）有共享讨论点，比较和案例启动这次讨论。

This topic was discussed at the start of the COPE Forum on Tuesday 23 March 2021, with guest speakers Tamara Welschot and Jennifer Wright.

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评论来自论坛，2021年3月

注意,评论并不意味着正式的应付advice or consensus

• Regarding disclosures and ethical statements in books, especially eBooks, where readers can access individual book chapters, similar to how you might access a journal article, should each chapter have their own statements rather than general statements in the introduction or conclusion that apply to the entire work?

• We have the technology to access individual chapters, without accessing the whole book, so ethical statements on a chapter level is desirable.

• Who is responsible for ethics in book publishing?

• If journal articles are published with a CC-BY license, can the author publish a similar article in a book as a chapter? From a copyright legal perspective this is allowed, as long as attribution is given to the source.

• 对于对书中章节的更正或撤回，这可能对其他作者产生敲击影响，其贡献不受影响。如果书中的一章缩回，这可以影响本书的声誉，如何被察觉，这可能会改变分页或影响本书的一般外观，如果它处于打印格式。因此，如果对书籍进行更正或撤回，那本书中的其他作者在未更改的情况下受到影响超过杂志作者。

• Does "plagiarism of ideas" also apply to journals? Is it unique to books?

• Publishers actively encourage authors to submit a book proposal to several publishers simultaneously. There are many reasons why authors would want to submit their book proposal to multiple different publishers in parallel because publishers can offer different packages to authors. This is different from journals where duplicate submission is not acceptable.

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