We designed and built the site for COPE – the Committee on Publication Ethics. COPE are the “the kitemark of medical journals” – working towards high ethical standards and safeguarding the integrity of the scientific record. In other words, they “help scientific journals to get their houses in order”.
We developed the brand for COPE and designed and built the site from the ground up. COPE wanted the site to be a forum where publishers and editors of peer-reviewed journals could discuss issues related to the integrity of work submitted to or published in their journals. Also required were different levels of membership to the site, each with varying degrees of access and functionality. To cope with this (excuse the pun) we built the site using the modular content management system Drupal.
The site launched successfully in October 2008 and has received great feedback from COPE members – of which there are 4374 to date, and counting.