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(NIH) published a request for public comments on a DRAFT NIH Policy for Data Management and Sharing and supplemental DRAFT guidance.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
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
