Publication Ethics and CrossCheck
Elsevier recently launched its Publishing Ethics Resource Kit (PERK) - http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/editorshome.editors/Introduction - which mentions the CrossCheck pilot and the important work being done by COPE - the Committee on Publishing Ethics (http://www.publicationethics.org.uk/about).
I'm glad that Elsevier has highlighted its participation in the CrossCheck Pilot which we hope to move into production and role out to all CrossRef members starting in June 2008. The PERK information shows that a technology tool for detecting overlapping text between documents is only one small (but important) part of the larger issue of ethics in publishing. Publishers need to look at a broad range of policies and procedures and need to explain to authors and readers how they go about publishing high-quality, original content - scholarly publishers haven't always been very good at this in the past but publishers do add a lot of value.