New open access policy for all MIT authors - April 10, 2017
The MIT is launching a new way for authors of scholarly articles to legally hold onto rights to reuse and post their articles, and for others to more easily build on that work. As of this month, all MIT authors, including students, postdocs, and staff, can… Read More
American Chemical Society responds to reports of changes in agency scientific policies - January 26, 2017
The American Chemical Society (ACS) is monitoring, with concern, reports stating the Trump administration is changing scientific communication policy and grant procedures. During this transition, ACS urges the administration to clarify, as soon as possible, its positions on these policies. The American Chemical Society has… Read More
The Optical Society applauds passage of the American Innovation and Competitiveness Act - January 9, 2017
The Optical Society (OSA) has issued a statement on the passage and signing of the American Innovation and Competitiveness Act, which promotes investment in research and development innovations that will better allow U.S. companies to compete in the international marketplace. In addition, the bill includes a… Read More
More than 600 Springer Nature journals commit to new data sharing policies - December 7, 2016
More than 600 journals across Nature Research, Springer, BioMed Central and Palgrave Macmillan have committed to encouraging good practice in the sharing and archiving and citation of research data by adopting new Springer Nature research data policies. The… Read More
NISO announces new publishers enacting phase two of KBART guidelines - November 22, 2016
The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) has announced that five publishers are now supplying metadata that conforms to phase two of the recommended practice, KBART: Knowledge Bases And Related Tools (NISO RP-9-2014). Conformance with KBART indicates that the format and content of data supplied by these… Read More
USDA and CHORUS sign MoU to advance public access to content reporting on USDA-funded research - November 15, 2016
The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and CHORUS have signed a memorandum of understanding to work together to advance public access to content reporting on USDA-funded research. USDA already links from the PubAg portal to CHORUS-verified, publicly accessible content on… Read More
Wellcome initiates open access requirements for publishers - September 6, 2016
Wellcome has published a set of requirements for open access publications, which will come into force next spring. The policy outlines what is required of publishers in order to receive article processing charges (APCs) from the charity. These include uploading articles to PubMed Central (PMC), making… Read More
Concordat on open research data launched - July 29, 2016
Four of the UK's leading research organisations - Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE), Research Councils UK (RCUK), Universities UK (UUK) and Wellcome Trust - have launched a concordat that proposes a series of clear and practical principles for working with… Read More
CrossRef to enable registration for preprints - May 6, 2016
CrossRef, a not-for-profit association of worldwide scholarly publishers, will enable registration for preprints by August 2016. Crossref's original registration policy prevented its members from registering content and assigning Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) to 'duplicative works.' The new policy means that preprints will have separate DOIs… Read More
EBSCO Health and Duodecim announce partnership to make DynaMed Plus mit EbM GuidelinesTM available to German physicians - March 4, 2016
EBSCO Health is partnering with Finnish Medical Society Duodecim to include German guidelines in DynaMed Plus mit EbM Guidelines™. German users of DynaMed Plus™ will now be able to search for relevant guidelines in German and link out to DynaMed Plus for the latest information… Read More
