An Essay on Methodology for Innovating “JAPAN TAPPI JOURNAL”

Part 17：On the Ethics as Related to the Freedom of Editing Journals

Abstract

Human beings have free wills. However, human actions and behaviors without codes of conducts will lead to instability, confusion and anarchy of the organization and society.

The seventeenth article of this series will analyze the journals in terms of “ethics as constraining codes” in editing journals. The overall contents are described as below.

1.　Introduction

2.　The meaning of ethics

3.　Codes of ethics as human conduct codes

4.　Codes of ethics as constraining conditions of human behaviors

5.　Publication ethics

6.　Journal’s ethics

7.　General ethics codes of academic journals

8.　Corporate or business ethics

9.　Ethics required for the “JAPAN TAPPI JOURNAL”

10.　Epilogue