American Chemical Society statement on final EPA transparency rule - January 8, 2021
The American Chemical Society (ACS) expresses strong disappointment with the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) recent decision to finalise a rule changing the nature of the data and scientific information used in rulemaking, ‘Strengthening Transparency in Pivotal Science Underlying Significant Regulatory Actions and Influential Scientific… Read More
Zynx Health publishes review of COVID-19 vaccine administration guidelines - January 4, 2021
Zynx Health has announced that it has published a new, publicly available review of vaccine administration guidelines specific to COVID-19 vaccines, including Pfizer/BioNTech BNT162b2, the COVID-19 vaccine co-developed by Pfizer and BioNTech, following its emergency use approval by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Concurrently, Zynx… Read More
cOAlition S will issue its policy on Open Access monographs and chapters - January 4, 2021
cOAlition S will issue its policy on Open Access (OA) monographs and chapters in late 2021. As part of a strategy to gather opinions and OA book policy priorities from the OA books community to feed into this policy, SPARC Europe… Read More
APA joins as signatory to TOP Guidelines - December 7, 2020
The American Psychological Association (APA), the nation's largest organisation representing psychologists and psychological researchers, has joined as new signatory to the Transparency and Openness Promotion (TOP) Guidelines, an important step for helping to make research data and processes more open by default,… Read More
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
