Alignment with COPE Core Practices
- Handling allegations of misconduct
- Transparent authorship and contributorship
- Complaints and appeals mechanism
- Management of conflicts/competing interests
- Data and reproducibility principles as appropriate to the discipline
- Ethical oversight and participant/rights-holder permissions
- Intellectual-property and copyright policies
- Transparent editorial management
- Clearly described peer-review processes
- Post-publication discussion, correction and retraction mechanisms
Statement on COPE status
Use of COPE resources in this policy does not imply that STA Congress is a COPE member or endorsed by COPE. COPE materials are used as international good-practice references.
Meaning of open access
Open access means that applicable content can be read online without a paywall. Reuse rights are governed separately by the licence notice attached to the content. Open access does not mean that all material is copyright-free or in the public domain.
Application of CC BY-NC 4.0
Content marked CC BY-NC 4.0 may be shared and adapted for non-commercial purposes with appropriate attribution, a link to the licence and an indication of changes. The full legal code is published by Creative Commons; the platform summary does not replace it. For third-party material and artworks, the rights/licence notice attached to the item controls.
This text is an institutional operating policy of STA Congress. Applicable law, competent-authority decisions and stricter event-specific rules prevail where relevant. Policies must remain consistent with actual workflows and technical systems.