2003

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Foreword: COPE continues to flourish 1
COPE Council, Committee and Membership 2
Session 1: How do we deliver a Council for Research Integrity in the UK?
Introduction 4
Setting the scene 5
A view from the Academy of Medical Sciences 8
A view from Universities UK 10
Research governance: the NHS perspective 11
A view from the GMC 13
Session 2: Editorial Accountability
Editorial misconduct: time to act 18
Have we made progress in exposing and dealing with editorial misconduct? 20
A survey of editors' conflicts of interest 24
How to handle authorship disputes: a guide for new researcher 32
Guidelines on Good Publication Practice 69
Constitution of COPE 74