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Plagiarism
Ethics
Breaking the publishing ethics rules can badly damage your reputation as a researcher, and even spell the end of your career. In this module series, we provide you with the support and advice you need to ensure your manuscript and actions are ethically sound.
We explore why it is crucial to observe the existing guidelines and the consequences when you fail to meet those obligations. We then look at some of the rules around authorship and plagiarism in a little more detail. And, we explain your rights as an author, and how you go about obtaining permission to use content from copyrighted publications.
What you will learn
- An explanation of publishing ethics
- Insight into the rules you should observe
- Information about content ownership and permissions
Plagiarism
While plagiarism is serious, it’s easy to avoid. We explain how to keep on the right side of the rules.
Authorship
We explore what it takes to really earn your place on a paper’s list of authors.
Content ownership
You’ve written a paper, but who technically owns it? We clear up the mystery.
Why you can't afford to ignore publication ethics
How publishing ethics can help make or break a researcher’s career.
Demystifying permissions
Everything you need to know about permissions and the pitfalls to avoid.Topic
Topic
- (-) Certified Peer Reviewer Course
- Job search
- Finding the right journal
- Career planning
- Social impact
- Research collaborations
- Book writing
- Writing skills
- (-) Publishing in the Chemical Sciences
- Open science
- (-) Funding
- (-) Career guidance
- Fundamentals of manuscript preparation
- Ensuring visibility
- Becoming a peer reviewer
- Research data management
- Fundamentals of publishing
- Fundamentals of peer review
- Ethics
- (-) Technical writing skills
- Going through peer review
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Introduction to the Certified Peer Reviewer Course
Would you like to become a certified peer reviewer? Elsevier Researcher Academy is pleased to announce a new certified course in peer reviewing.
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3.2 The comments to editors and decision recommendations
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1.1 What is peer review? Why peer review?
To prepare you for the Certified Peer Reviewer course, in this first section, we take a step back and discuss the history of academic publishing and explain the status quo of peer review.
1.3 The typical peer review process
This section breaks down the typical peer review process by discussing the steps from submission to the selection of reviewers by the editors.
1.4 How to get involved
Learn how you can get involved in peer review and contribute to trust and quality in academia and research.
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