Afarand Scholarly Publishing Institute (ASPI) is committed to the COPE Code of Conduct for Journal Publishers.
ASPI
- Follows this code, and encourage the editors they work with to follow the COPE Code of Conduct for Journal Editors
- Ensures the editors and journals they work with are aware of what their membership of COPE provides and entails
- Provides reasonable practical support to editors so that they can follow the COPE Code of Conduct for Journal Editors
ASPI defines the relationship between publisher, editor and other parties in a contract
ASPI works with journal editors to
- Editorial independence
- Research ethics, including confidentiality, consent, and the special requirements for human and animal research
- Authorship
- Transparency and integrity (for example, conflicts of interest, research funding, reporting standards
- Peer review and the role of the editorial team beyond that of the journal editor
- Appeals and complaints