Report from the Publications Ethical Standards Subcommittee Members: William Oberkampf, Chair John Anderson Karl Bilimoria Frank Lu Elaine Oran Publications Committee Meeting Aerospace Sciences Meeting January 10, 2013

Topics Discussed and Actions VP-Pubs added two new members to the PESS: – Elaine Oran – Karl Bilimoria Current subcommittee charter does not fully reflect the present activities of the subcommittee – Action: Charter will be updated and submitted for approval to the Pubs Comm. Discussed AIAA Bylaw changes to be approved by the BOD Discussed the new AIAA Ethics Committee

Topics Discussed and Actions (continued) Recent case: – The plaintiffs in the recent conflict of interest case involving an AE and a reviewer have requested that the case be re-opened – The PESS decided not to re-open the case New case: – AIAA staff discovered potential copyright infringement and self-plagiarism of articles that had been published in an AIAA journal – We have found significant AIAA copyrighted material was published in a recent edited book published by Springer – We are working with the AIAA attorney in parallel