Editor-in-Chief of The BMJ calls for greater transparency on payments from medical industry - August 17, 2023
The BMJ's Editor-in-Chief, Kamran Abbasi, is urging the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges and its member institutions to set a benchmark for transparently disclosing payments received from the medical and patient group industry. This appeal comes in response to a recent investigation conducted by… Read More
Wiley’s net-zero target validated by the Science Based Targets Initiative - July 31, 2023
Wiley, the global leader in research, publishing, and knowledge solutions, has taken a significant step towards combating climate change by setting science-based targets to achieve carbon net-zero status by 2040. The company's commitment to these ambitious goals has been validated by the prestigious Science Based Targets initiative… Read More
IOP Publishing expands scope of the reports on progress in physics journal - July 12, 2023
Scientific publisher IOP Publishing has announced significant changes to its esteemed journal, Reports on Progress in Physics™. These changes aim to modernize the title and position it at the pinnacle of the publisher's extensive physics portfolio. Reports on Progress in Physics has long… Read More
SSP calls for proposals for abstract management system to support the scholarly publishing community - June 29, 2023
The Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) has announced its request for proposals (RFP) for an abstract management system to meet the organization's needs, starting in September 2023. The SSP is seeking to enter into an arrangement with a supplier that can provide abstract management services in exchange… Read More
American Chemical Society reaffirms its commitment to Chemical & Engineering News - December 21, 2022
In a joint statement from ACS Chair of the Board of Directors Paul W. Jagodzinski and ACS CEO Thomas Connelly Jr., the American Chemical Society (ACS) reaffirms its support of its independent news outlet, Chemical & Engineering News (C&EN). The recent reorganization of C&EN as described… Read More
Increasing visibility of research resources on bioRxiv and medRxiv - November 14, 2022
Identifiers for research resources are a new way to link papers and improve resource findability and reproducibility. A new project by SciScore, funded by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI), will seek to implement a Resource table for each preprint. In scientific studies, key research resources such… Read More
Wolters Kluwer expert addresses CDC director’s new push for preprints - August 22, 2022
Among numerous measures announced to drive efficiency and restore public confidence in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the agency’s director, Rochelle Walensky, MD, MPH, proposed increasing the use of preprint research to ensure actionable new findings and data are available more quickly, instead of delaying until research… Read More
Academic publishers announce key action on diversity data collection - April 18, 2022
An international group aiming to eliminate bias and discrimination in academic publishing has published guidance for the collection of author data that can work between different publishers – an issue that has long been a challenge for the global scientific community. The Joint… Read More
PLOS launches new ‘Accessible Data’ feature to promote data sharing and access - March 28, 2022
The Public Library of Science (PLOS) is testing a new experimental open science feature intended to promote data sharing and reuse across the PLOS journal portfolio. A subset of PLOS articles that link to shared research data in a repository will now display a prominent visual cue… Read More
Journal Comparison Service: cOAlition S extends the deadline for publisher registrations - March 24, 2022
cOAlition S is set to launch the Journal Comparison Service (JCS) in the Summer of 2022. JCS is a secure online platform that will help registered users from the research community better understand if the publishing fees they pay are commensurate with the services… Read More
