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<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><h2>COPE strategy</h2> <p>COPE's strategic plan for 2020-2023 builds on COPE's mission to contribute to scholarly integrity.</p> <p>We will continue to provide the support that we currently offer, while focusing on diversity, inclusivity and the growth of COPE membership, across all disciplines and regions. We plan to deliver more timely responses to the evolving and challenging publication ethics issues faced by our members.</p> <h3>Our purpose</h3> <p>Educate and advance knowledge in methods of safeguarding the integrity of the scholarly record.</p> <h3>Our vision</h3> <p>To create a future in which ethical practice in scholarship is the cultural norm.</p> <h3>Our mission</h3> <p>COPE鈥檚 mission is built around three core principles:聽</p> <ul><li>providing practical resources to educate and support our members</li> <li>providing leadership in thinking on publication ethics</li> <li>offering a neutral, professional voice in current debates</li> </ul><h3>Four strategic priorities 2020-2023</h3> <h4>Range</h4> <p>We will extend the range of our resources to meet the needs of all members, irrespective of discipline, and develop new resources to meet the needs of universities and producers of non-journal scholarly products.</p> <h4>Reach</h4> <p>We will carry out a targeted campaign to increase and extend awareness of COPE across all sectors, disciplines and geographical areas, in particular those where we are currently underrepresented, as well as within our current membership.</p> <h4>Responsiveness</h4> <p>We will be more responsive to ethical issues in scholarly work and its publication as they arise.</p> <h4>Revenue</h4> <p>We will have expanded our membership and established more sources of revenue to sustain our mission beyond 2023.</p> <p>Read the full details of <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220218091550/https://publicationethics.org/files/cope-strategic-plan-2020-23_0.pdf" target="_blank">COPE's strategic plan 2020-2023</a> (PDF,聽 3.16 MB)</p> <p>An update on work towards COPE's strategic plan:聽<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220218091550/https://publicationethics.org/cope-strategic-report-2020">COPE strategic report 2020</a></p> <h3>Page history</h3> <p>Page last edited: 16 Feb 2021<br/> Page published: 22 July 2020</p> 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