ABEC Brasil and JATM in the Promotion of Ethics in Scientific Publishing

Abstract

The Associação Brasileira de Editores Científicos, ABEC, is a nationwide and non-profitable civil society. Founded in 1985, it brings together people and companies in an attempt to develop and enhance the publishing of technical and scientific journals; to improve communication and dissemination of information; to keep up with the exchanging of ideas, the debating of issues and the defense of common interests. Since its founding, the ABEC has always had as a goal to ensure publishing standards of form and content of technical and scientific publications in the country; to keep in touch with and to assist correlated institutions and societies in the country and abroad; to regularly disseminate issues of technical and scientific editorial interest; to promote conferences, seminars and courses on its objectives; to represent the interest of national scientific journals, while always keeping an ethical standard of quality and science. In order to emphasize the role of ABEC in fulfilling the goals mentioned above, the assistance given to editors for the creation and maintenance of scientific journals is mentioned. That was how the Journal of Aerospace Technology and Management, JATM, was created, in 2009. The group of idealizer creators of this renowned journal on the aerospace field had the initiative of seeking for ABEC’s guidance on the founding of this journal.