At Cambridge University Press, the integrity of our academic content and publishing process is paramount, and as our editors, you are our partners in supporting this mission. We are publisher members of COPE, and have signed up to their guidelines. By extension, we expect our journals to uphold the same standards of transparency and best practice, outlined in our Research Publishing Ethics Guidelines, and on COPE’s website. Following these guidelines will also support your journal in applying to be indexed on Abstracting and Indexing sites, in getting an impact factor or other accreditation, and being eligible to publish work from some authors with funder requirements on publication outlets.   

We expect all our eligible journals to apply for individual journal COPE membership, and will support you in doing so. Becoming a journal member gives you access to member-only COPE content, support and resources, and eligibility to serve on COPE Council and attend COPE events.  Any journal that has been publishing for more than a year and meets COPE’s other eligibility criteria can apply. 

Ongoing Support  

We also have a dedicated Publishing Ethics and Research Integrity team at the Press, who can advise on all manner of publication ethics issues and topics. If you have an ethical concern (or if someone has raised a concern to you), or you would like advice on publishing ethics policy development or workflows, please contact your Publisher and/or publishingethics@cambridge.org.