TOC of Publication Ethics in Brieflands
Brieflands is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and handles ethical questions according to the COPE Core Practices and flowcharts. This page indexes the complete set of publication ethics policies that apply across all Brieflands journals. Each policy has its own page, so it can be cited and linked directly.
Authors, reviewers and editors are all covered by these policies. Where a specific journal states additional requirements, those appear on the journal’s own Instructions for Authors page.
Authorship and contributorship
Who qualifies as an author, and what each author is responsible for
Ethical oversight
Consent, human and animal research, and oversight of ethical approval
Data and reproducibility
Data availability, sharing and reproducibility of results
Research integrity and misconduct
What counts as misconduct, and how allegations are handled
Complaints and appeals
How to raise a concern about a decision or about the journal
Corrections, retractions and withdrawal
What happens to the published record when something is wrong
Editorial independence and journal management
The editor’s independence, and who is accountable for what
Publishing policies
Preprints, republication, permanence and preservation
Intellectual property and licensing
Copyright, licence terms and reuse rights