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Publishing ethics

Publishing ethics guidelines for journals

At Cambridge University Press, the integrity of our academic content and publishing process is paramount. These guidelines outline the best practice principles that we apply to our Academic content. We hope these guidelines will be useful to many different groups, including authors, peer reviewers, editors within and outside of Cambridge University Press, societies, publishing partners and funders.
Research publishing ethics guidelines for journals

Cambridge University Press is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) ; a global not-for-profit organisation which aims to support publishers and editors to achieve high standards in publishing ethics. Although COPE primarily provides guidelines and resources for journals, we reference COPE’s materials throughout these guidelines as these can also be useful for other publication types. We also follow standards and best practice guidelines set by other relevant industry associations. Any external guidelines we follow are referred to in the relevant sections in our publishing ethics pages.

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Read our research publishing ethics guidelines for books and elements.

Previous versions

These guidelines were last updated in August 2023. To view the 2022 research publishing ethics guidelines for journals, please click here. For older versions of these guidelines, please contact publishingethics@cambridge.org