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TRRP model text recycling policy released this week
The TRRP has released its new model text recycling policy for publishers–the first of its kind. You can read about it in our viewpoint paper, published jointly this week in Science Editor and European Science Editing.
TRRP Model Policy on Text Recycling coming this spring
The TRRP is excited to announce that its new model policy on text recycling for publishers will be released this spring. This release will be accompanied by an article describing the policy and its development which will be jointly published in the Council of Science Editors’ journal Science Editor and the European Association of Science Editors’ journal […]
New chapter in American Chemical Society book on scientific ethics
Cary Moskovitz’s chapter, “Text Recycling in Chemistry Research: The Need for Clear and Consistent Guidelines,” has been published in the American Chemical Society’s new book International Ethics in Chemistry: Developing Common Values across Cultures. You can access the full text of the chapter here.
TRRP in Science
The journal Science does a news story on the TRRP. See it here.
TRRP featured in COPE Digest
Text Recycling Research Project: update was published in the March, 2021 issue of the Committee on Publication Ethics Digest. Read it here.
New taxonomy for text recycling published in Learned Publishing
Cary Moskovitz published “Standardizing terminology for text recycling in research writing” in Learned Publishing. While increasing awareness of text recycling has led to the proliferation of policies, journal editorials, and scholarly articles addressing the practice, these documents tend to employ inconsistent terminology—using different terms to name the same key ideas and, even more problematic, using […]
New publication in Accountability in Research
Ian Anson and Cary Moskovitz have published “Text recycling in STEM: A text-analytic study of recent NSF-sponsored research reports” in Accountability in Research. Over the past decade, text recycling has become an increasingly debated practice in research ethics, especially in science and technology fields. Little is known, however, about researchers’ actual text recycling practices. We report […]
New publication in AILA Review:
Chris Anson, Susanne Hall, Michael A. Pemberton & Cary Moskovitz. Reuse in STEM Research Writing: Rhetorical and Practical Considerations and Challenges. AILA Review, Vol. 33, 2020, pp. 120–135. issn 1461-0213. doi.org/10.1075/aila.00033.ans LINK FULL TEXT Text recycling involves the verbatim reuse of text from one’s own existing documents in a newly-created text— such as the duplication of a paragraph or […]
Talk at National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) yields news coverage for TRRP in Environmental Factor magazine.
The TRRP made news in the environmental science magazine Environmental Factor, a publication of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS). Read the piece, “No clear guidelines on self-plagiarism in science, Moskovitz says” here.
New publication in the Journal of Technical Writing and Communication
Cary Moskovitz & Susanne Hall. Text Recycling in STEM Research: An Exploratory Investigation of Expert and Novice Beliefs and Attitudes. Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, March, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1177/0047281620915434 LINK FULL-TEXTWhen writing journal articles, STEM researchers produce a number of other genres such as grant proposals and conference posters, and their articles routinely build directly on their own […]
