The third edition of the Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing was published in January, 2018. This edition, which consists of 16 principles related to all aspects of scholarly publishing such as journal governance, publication ethics, copyright, archiving and profit model, has been prepared by the collaboration of four organizations, which are the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA), and the World Association of Medical Editors (WAME) [1]. Most of these principles are self-evident and can be considered as essential ingredients in publishing scholarly journals in an ethically, academically and entrepreneurially transparent manner. Since July, 2018, Science Editing has fully adopted them in the editorial policy, which can be found in our web page about Best Practice (https:// www.escienceediting.org/about/best_practice.php). This has been followed by many Korean journals since then. The Korean Council of Science Editors (KCSE) has also actively advocated these principles. A Korean translation of them was published in March, 2018 in the KCSE Newsletter. They were also included in the educational program of the KCSE. In the KCSE General Meeting and Conference held in January, 2019, Soon Kim presented the results of an extensive survey of the websites of all 793 journals published by non-profit academic societies and listed in the Science Citation Index Extended about whether the editorial policies of those journals were consistent with the 16 principles or not. She found that in surprisingly many categories including copyright, archiving and profit model information, the principles of transparency were poorly represented in the editorial policies of the majority of journals. This was especially the case for those in Asia, Africa and South America. Since it is not difficult to implement these principles, we strongly encourage many journals, especially those in Asia, to do so. This will enhance the transparency of those journals, thereby helping to develop them to better ones.

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在学术出版中实施透明度原则和最佳实践

第三版《学术出版透明度和最佳实践原则》于 2018 年 1 月出版。 该版本包含与学术出版各个方面相关的 16 项原则，如期刊治理、出版伦理、版权、存档和盈利模式由出版伦理委员会 (COPE)、开放获取期刊目录 (DOAJ)、开放获取学术出版商协会 (OASPA) 和世界医学编辑协会 ( WAME) [1]。大多数这些原则是不言而喻的，可以被视为以道德、学术和企业透明的方式出版学术期刊的基本要素。自 2018 年 7 月起，Science Editing 已在编辑政策中全面采用它们，可以在我们关于最佳实践的网页 (https://www.escienceediting.org/about/best_practice.php) 中找到。从那时起，许多韩国期刊都遵循了这一点。韩国科学编辑委员会 (KCSE) 也积极倡导这些原则。它们的韩语翻译于 2018 年 3 月在 KCSE 通讯中发表。他们也被包括在 KCSE 的教育计划中。在 2019 年 1 月举行的 KCSE 大会上，Soon Kim 介绍了对非营利性学术团体出版的所有 793 种期刊的网站进行的广泛调查的结果，这些期刊在 Science Citation Index Extended 中列出了这些期刊是否符合 16 项原则。她发现在包括版权在内的许多类别中，存档和盈利模式信息，透明度原则在大多数期刊的编辑政策中没有得到很好的体现。对于亚洲、非洲和南美洲的人来说尤其如此。由于实施这些原则并不困难，我们强烈鼓励许多期刊，尤其是亚洲期刊这样做。这将提高这些期刊的透明度，从而有助于将它们发展为更好的期刊。