Taylor & Francis welcomes new guidance from cOAlition S - April 16, 2020
Academic publisher Taylor & Francis has welcomed the new guidance from cOAlition S on transformative arrangements for Journals. cOAlition S have clearly listened to feedback from the community. The global publisher notes that it is encouraging to see more feasible conditions in the revised guidance, particularly… Read More
Cochrane releases revised Conflict of Interest policy for Cochrane Library Content, to go into effect in October 2020 - April 15, 2020
Cochrane has released its revised Conflict of Interest policy for Cochrane Library Content. The policy was created with the support of a project board made up of key stakeholders and conflict of interest experts from within and outside Cochrane, following a rigorous… Read More
Cochrane announces revised Conflict of Interest policy for Cochrane Library Content - March 17, 2020
Cochrane has released its revised Conflict of Interest policy for Cochrane Library Content. The policy was created with the support of a project board made up of key stakeholders and conflict of interest experts from within and outside Cochrane, following a rigorous… Read More
UKRI launches consultation on Open Access policy - February 13, 2020
UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) has launched a consultation as part of its Open Access Review. The consultation will inform the development of a new open access policy, aimed at ensuring that the published outputs of research are widely and freely accessible to all. The UK… Read More
The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy issues Request for Public Comment on Desirable Characteristics of Repositories for Managing and Sharing Data - January 30, 2020
The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy has issued a Request for Public Comment (RFC) on Draft Desirable Characteristics of Repositories for Managing and Sharing Data Resulting from Federally Funded Research. This RFC is issued on behalf of the multi-agency Subcommittee on Open… Read More
AMIA urges NIH to dramatically revise draft data management and sharing policy to maximise value of scientific data - January 14, 2020
The American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) recently warned the National Institutes of Health (NIH) that its proposed data management and sharing policy would be detrimental to data-driven discovery and lead to increased compliance burdens for researchers. The organisation provided dozens of recommendations… Read More
ARL comments on Draft NIH Policy for Data Management and Sharing - January 10, 2020
On November 6, 2019, the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) published a request for public comments on a DRAFT NIH Policy for Data Management and Sharing and supplemental DRAFT guidance. NIH has a long history of promoting public access to the research it funds, including… Read More
Over 125 scientific research and publishing organisations join together to oppose the proposed administration policy forcing immediate free distribution of peer-reviewed journal articles - December 19, 2019
In a new major letter signalling deep concern, more than 125 organisations – representing publishers in scientific and medical societies, global companies, and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce – have expressed their strong opposition to a proposed Administration policy that would mandate immediate free distribution of… Read More
IEEE announces retractions from IEEE Xplore® digital library - December 4, 2019
Technical professional organisation IEEE has announced that it is retracting 30 articles that were published in the IEEE Transactions on Electromagnetic Compatibility from 2016 to 2018 and 19 articles from the 2018 International Conference on Computing and Network Communications ("CoCoNet") due to violations of IEEE's peer-review… Read More
Joint statement on EPA proposed rule and public availability of data - December 2, 2019
A group of editorial leaders from several publishers, including PLOS, have co-published an Editorial highlighting concerns about the ’Strengthening Transparency in Regulatory Science‘ rule proposed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). This comes eighteen months after the same group published an Editorial when the rule… Read More
