Publication Ethics Statement
The Mythopoeic Society Seminar Proceedings Statement on Publication Ethics and Malpractice
The authors, editors, and publisher of The Mythopoeic Society Seminar Proceedings will be guided in their mutual work by the standards developed by "The Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), which provides resources on the topic of professional publishing standards at publicationethics.org.
1. Authorship and Contributorship:
When submitting a work (article, transcript, or other work) to The Mythopoeic Society Seminar Proceedings , the author or authors warrant that this is their original work, and that any substantial contributors to the paper are listed as co-authors. For multiply-authored papers, co-authors are expected to work out order of authorship amongst themselves. All authors and their email addresses should be provided to the editors, although one author may be designated as the primary contact during the editing process. Others who have contributed in a less substantial role, such as advisors, readers, or commenters, may be acknowledged if desired in footnotes or acknowledgment statements.
2. Complaints and Appeals:
Complaints and appeals may be addressed to the editor in chief. If warranted, these complaints will be discussed with the Society’s Council of Stewards. Guidance may be sought from the flowcharts, guidelines, and cases archived at The Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) site or through the discussion boards at the Council of Editors of Learned Journals as appropriate.
3. Conflicts of Interest:
Authors should declare any potential conflicts of interest or competing interests relevant to their submission. Members of the Mythopoeic Society Council of Stewards and others associated with Society administration may submit to the Proceedings series without concerns about conflict of interest.
4. Data Sharing and Reproducibility:
The Mythopoeic Society Seminar Proceedings is multidisciplinary but primarily publishes literary criticism, so we are very unlikely to ever need to share data to ensure the reproducibility of results. However, we consider accurate and fair quotation of sources to be the philosophical equivalent of this ethical requirement. To that end we expect authors to quote accurately without misrepresenting the original intent of their sources.
5. Ethical Oversight:
In the event that a submitted article involves research with human subjects (for example, surveys or interviews), these studies should have been approved through appropriate ethics or research approval boards at the author(s)’ institution, and such approval footnoted within the article.
6. Intellectual Property:
The copyright for each individual item belongs to the author or authors under a Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND license. Under Rights for Authors and SWOSU Digital Commons and on our submission form, we spell out what The Mythopoeic Society Seminar Proceedings may do with the item, which includes publishing the item in print and electronic format and providing the text to commercial databases for inclusion and indexing. If any third party requests reprint rights from the editor, they will be referred to the author or authors.
7. Post-publication Discussions and Corrections.
Informal discussions may take place on the Society’s various social media pages and are monitored for adherence to our code of conduct.
In the exceedingly unlikely event that formal corrections need to be made and a note will be attached to the article in our repository. This may consist of correction notices, addressing minor errors such as spelling or citation corrections; retraction notices for major issues that cannot be addressed by a correction; and removal notices, for substantial issues such as gross copyright infringement. In all cases the editors and board will be advised by COPE’s guidelines.
