AUTHORPÆDIA’S CODE OF ETHICS FOR AUTHORS

Authorship is limited to authors who have published at least one book and that book is on Amazon.com or has been offered to the public for sale.

Author agrees to abide from following violations, and by signing this agreement before creating a page.

Such violations include: 

• The use of any diagrams, figures, pictures, tables, or illustrations that belong to third parties without permission from the owners.
• The use of copyrighted materials without permission.
• Plagiarism at various levels: un-credited verbatim, significant self-plagiarism; un-credited and improper paraphrasing of pages or paragraphs that have already been published;
• The data (text, photos, links) submitted by the author violates common ethics. Examples include, but not limited to: topics are not relevant; falsified results/work; results are not reproducible; commercial articles; use of profanity; inclusion of inappropriate pictures; inclusion of pictures of faces of people without their permission (in particular, those which present "face recognition" algorithms).
• Falsification of any kind.

Definition of Redundant Publication (Self-Plagiarism)

In addition to Plagiarism, AUTHORPÆDIA also considers redundant publication or self-plagiarism a serious violation of AUTHORPÆDIA Publications Policy. Self-plagiarism is defined as the verbatim or near-verbatim reuse of significant portions of one's own published work without citing the original source. Note that self-plagiarism does not apply to publications based on the author's own previously published work (e.g., appearing in a book, journal, or conference proceedings) if an explicit and appropriate reference is made to that prior publication. Pages submitted to AUTHORPÆDIA based on the author's own previously published material must be disclosed at the time of submission and an explicit reference to the prior publication must be included in the submitted Work. Such reuse does not require quotation marks to delineate the reused material but does require that the source be appropriately cited.

Content Falsification

Content falsification is any form of intentional misrepresentation of results, supporting materials, or references. Each of these acts is dishonest, strictly prohibited by the AUTHORPÆDIA Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct, and by generally accepted principles.

Content falsification has taken place when a Page contains material that was known by one or more of the authors to be false or untrue at the time the Page was submitted for consideration of publication. This includes instances where citations are manufactured or used without actual relevance to the content of the Page; data that has been synthesized, adjusted, padded, or trimmed without the specific details of those modifications described in the content of the page; synthesized or altered outputs portrayed as actual and without specific details of the alterations included in the Page; and any presentations or claims that are known to be false, but are presented in a manner that would lead the reader to believe they are true and correct.

Submitting a Claim

Any individual is entitled to make a formal claim that a violation of this policy has occurred. It is not necessary for a claimant to have any formal relationship (e.g., author, reviewer, subscriber member) to the Page that is claimed to be in violation of AUTHORPÆDIA Policy, nor is it required that the claimant be a member of AUTHORPÆDIA; however, it is necessary that the claim involves an AUTHORPÆDIA Page (as defined above).

Any individuals submitting a formal claim that a violation has occurred must:

• identify themselves (i.e., anonymous reports are not considered),
• indicate whether there is or is not a formal relationship to the content in the Page (e.g., author of violated page, reviewer, or editor of violating page),
• provide a detailed written description of the claim, and
• provide detailed evidence supporting the claim, including:
  • a citation to the original Content(s) (Content’s title, author, publication title, date of publication), if any;
  • a citation to the alleged violating Page content;
  • indication of specific pages, sections, paragraphs, etc. in each page alleged as evidence of the violation.

AUTHORPÆDIA encourages the submission of the following additional information to aid in its investigation before AUTORPÆDIA will decide to remove the page breaching the Code of Ethics:

• copies of the Page/s involved in the alleged violation,
• additional information regarding how to obtain involved content that are unpublished (e.g., a report, an online posting),
• any other information that would help AUTHORPÆDIA efficiently to investigate the claim.

Please note that complaints against AUTHORPÆDIA members related to items not published by AUTHORPÆDIA may be referred to AUTHORPÆDIA's Code of Ethics Committee on Professional Ethics (COPE) for possible investigation and action.