EBSCO Information Services launches GIN Library and Registry of Guidelines - November 24, 2020
EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) has partnered with the Guidelines International Network (GIN) to launch the GIN Library and Registry of Guidelines. The library, which includes approximately 3,000 guidelines developed or endorsed by GIN members, is freely available to… Read More
HHMI announces open access publishing policy - October 2, 2020
Advocating for broader immediate access to published scientific research, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) has announced significant changes to its publishing policy. The new policy, which will take effect on January 1, 2022, will require all HHMI laboratory heads to publish in a manner that… Read More
Oxford University Press implements new research data policy - September 30, 2020
As part of its continuing drive towards a more open and transparent research environment, Oxford University Press (OUP) has recently implemented new research data policies in over 290 of the journals in its portfolio. The new policy, launched formally earlier in… Read More
ACS announces new policy to allow authors an easy route to change names on previous publications - September 11, 2020
The Publications Division of the American Chemical Society (ACS) has announced a new policy that will allow authors to update the name used on their prior ACS publications. Beginning in October, authors who have changed their name for any reason, including (but not limited to) gender… Read More
CARL and Portage endorse the TRUST Principles for digital repositories - August 7, 2020
CARL and Portage have announced their endorsement of the TRUST Principles for digital repositories. Digital information increasingly drives the research process and enables broad access to research data and other types of digital collections. This access is often provided via digital… Read More
Principles to enhance research integrity and avoid ‘publish or perish’ in academia - July 20, 2020
Amid growing criticism of the traditional "publish or perish" system for rewarding academic research, an international team has developed five principles that institutions can follow to measure and reward research integrity. Published on July 16, 2020 in the open access journal PLOS Biology, the team believes… Read More
Elsevier endorses Leiden Manifesto to guide its development of improved research evaluation - July 14, 2020
Elsevier, a global leader in research publishing and information analytics, has announced that it is endorsing the Leiden Manifesto for Research Metrics, ten principles that guide best practice in metrics-based research assessment. The Leiden Manifesto is a set of practical and… Read More
Open Preservation Foundation endorses TRUST principles for digital repositories - June 1, 2020
The Open Preservation Foundation has endorsed the TRUST principles for digital repositories. Following on from several months of RDA consultation and discussion within the digital repository community, a set of guiding principles have been developed to facilitate best practice in trustworthy data… Read More
IOP Publishing unveils co-review policy - May 8, 2020
IOP Publishing (IOPP) has introduced a formal co-review policy, to help early-career researchers gain experience in peer review while ensuring they get credit for the work they contribute. A co-reviewer is a researcher – often early in their career – who… Read More
ACM calls for transparency, interoperability, privacy, and scrutiny in COVID contact tracing - May 7, 2020
The ACM Europe Technology Policy Committee (Europe TPC) of the world’s largest society of computing professionals, the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), has released detailed principles and practices for the development and deployment of ‘contact tracing’ technology intended to track and arrest the spread of COVID-19.… Read More
