Tag: Publication Integrity
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Excerpt from the General P.I.E. Guidelines – Privacy and copyright protection
1. Privacy of individuals and their right to seek anonymity must be respected; this applies whether or not they are connected with the publishing sector. 2. Copyright and intellectual property must be respected and protected and action sought immediately against breaches of plagiarism rules or other similar issues. Support and advice must be accorded to […]
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Excerpt from the General P.I.E. Guidelines – Duty to follow best practice
1. Publishers and editorial board members who support the PIE membership and the code of conduct should adhere to the guidelines implemented in the document. 2. Members of the editorial staff should follow the recommendations in an equally exemplary fashion, with full support. 3. Individuals working in the publishing industry should be informed about the […]
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Excerpt from the General P.I.E. Guidelines 4
Editors and publishers must balance the public interest and the informative aspect of the publishing materials with the readers’ sensibilities. They should fully abstain from publishing articles or images that may cause offence. Offensive and seriously deleterious materials are considered to be the articles or images that place inequitable emphasis on religion, race, colour, gender, […]
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Integrity in US media
Carl Sagan once said “The dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media”, even going on to say it presented: “a kind of celebration of ignorance”. The problem is that much of what is presented in the mainstream US media today is short, bright […]
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Facebook’s psychological study: an ethical dilemma
In January 2012 the social media giant Facebook undertook what can only be called a research experiment on 700,000 of its users. The company decided to strategically skew what these users could see when they logged into their personal profiles. Half of these individuals were confronted by content which had been proven to have happy […]
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GlaxoSmithKline faces criminal investigation for allegations of bribery…are large enterprises untouchable?
GlaxoSmithKline faces criminal investigations… In an era where large companies control the majority of the different markets, the potential for serious crimes within such organisations are an unmeasured quantity. When a multi-billion pound company is guilty of wrongdoing, it is often on a massive level. So are the punishments they receive working as a deterrent? […]
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Anonymous bloggers causing defamation, harassment, bullying and other illegal activities…What do we need to do to eliminate the bad ones? Any current UK laws to stop them?
Cyber bullying and anonymous bloggers Cyber bullying is defined as an action that ‘uses information and communication technologies to support deliberate, repeated, and hostile behaviour by an individual or group that is intended to harm another or others.’ Website browsing, discussion forums and other mobile technologies such as SMS text messaging are a part of […]
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Tim Reeves – Publication Integrity and Ethics
PIE is an organisation which was developed over a decade ago but only launched recently (14th Nov 2013). Its mission is to establish an ethical publishing environment, to address the main areas of concern in the editorial sector and to promote real editorial freedom among publishers. PIE along with its council, assists editors, authors and […]