UC Irvine becomes first campus to launch Presidential OA Policy - October 24, 2019
UC Irvine has become the first UC campus to launch the UC Presidential Open Access Policy implementation, enabling UC Irvine Health Science Clinical Professors and Librarians to join their Academic Senate colleagues in using the UC Publication Management System to make their scholarly articles freely available… Read More
New ASTM International Standard supports asset-management career development - August 13, 2019
ASTM International's asset management committee (E53) has approved a new standard with guiding principles for creating an asset management career development program (soon to be published as E3140). According to committee members, the standard outlines the education, training, and experience needed to support the mission and… Read More
Cochrane-WHO collaboration on qualitative evidence syntheses in guidelines showcased in new articles - August 12, 2019
A series of papers highlighting innovative work carried out by the Cochrane Effective Practice and Organisation of Care Group and the World Health Organization on using reviews of qualitative research in guideline development processes has been published in Health Research Policy and Systems. Cochrane is… Read More
IOP Publishing initiates open data trial - July 1, 2019
IOP Publishing is trialing a new data policy on three of its journals to encourage and support authors to make the data underpinning their article more accessible. The trial will begin in July on the journals Environmental Research Letters, Journal of Physics: Complexity, and Machine… Read More
SAE International brings together public and private partners to address mobility data-sharing principles - May 22, 2019
SAE International®, a global mobility standards developer, has announced plans to form a consortium to develop a framework of best practices to support effective and secure mobility data sharing. This new consortium will fill a critical need by providing a collaborative model that can evolve… Read More
Springer Nature updates policy to encourage preprint sharing for its journals - May 20, 2019
For more than two decades, Nature and its sister journals have supported pre-publication sharing of manuscripts on preprint servers. Nature’s first editorial on this goes back to 1997 — although, back then, the practice was common only among physicists. By making early research findings accessible quickly… Read More
First 2019 issue of Research Library Issues explores privacy from a legal, digital, and applied perspective - May 7, 2019
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has announced the release of the first issue of Research Library Issues (RLI) in 2019. The issue of RLI 2019 looks at privacy from a legal, digital, and applied perspective, with a focus on the implications and opportunities for research… Read More
New OA policy at Penn State to expand reach of University research - May 3, 2019
A new open access policy at Penn State, recently endorsed by the University Faculty Senate, will greatly increase public availability of original, peer-reviewed Penn State scholarly research in support of the University’s land-grant mission. Under the policy — expected to be implemented by Penn State… Read More
Association of American Publishers supports Copyright Alternative in Small-Claims Enforcement Act - May 2, 2019
The Association of American Publishers (AAP) applauds Representatives Jeffries and Collins and Senators Tillis, Durbin, Kennedy, and Hirono for introducing the bipartisan Copyright Alternative in Small-Claims Enforcement Act, along with original co-sponsors Representatives Nadler, Johnson, Roby, Chu, Cline, Lieu, and Fitzpatrick. AAP has long advocated… Read More
Springer Nature calls for cOAlition S policy to be evidence-based and focus on stimulating ‘demand’ and ‘supply’ - February 12, 2019
Springer Nature is strongly supportive of Plan S's goal to accelerate the adoption of Open Access (OA). The global OA publisher has called on cOAlition S participants to put evidencing and promoting the benefits of OA at the heart of their strategy as one of
