COAR seeks input on managing non-English and multilingual content in repositories - June 1, 2023
June 6, 2023 - The Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) is inviting the research community and stakeholders to provide their valuable input on 16 draft recommendations for effectively managing non-English and multilingual content in repositories. These recommendations, developed by a COAR Task Force,… Read More
Taylor & Francis achieves gold standard for web accessibility on eBooks platform - May 24, 2023
Academic publisher Taylor & Francis has announced the successful completion of a comprehensive testing and development program to ensure its eBooks website, TaylorFrancis.com, is fully inclusive and meets the highest standards of web accessibility. The platform has achieved the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)… Read More
PLOS embraces new authorship standards to enhance inclusivity and transparency - May 11, 2023
In an ongoing commitment to foster openness and inclusivity in scientific publishing, PLOS (Public Library of Science) announced a significant update to its Authorship policy on May 10, 2023. This policy change aims to align authorship practices across disciplines and ensure a fair and… Read More
Digital Preservation Policy Toolkit 2.0 now available - March 27, 2023
The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) has released a new version of the Digital Preservation Policy Toolkit to coincide with its Relaunch Roadshow in Australasia. Now freely available for anyone within the digital preservation community to use and designed for organizations… Read More
AIP Publishing expands APC Waiver and Discount Policy - March 24, 2023
AIP Publishing has expanded its article processing charge (APC) Waiver and Discount Policy, making Gold Open Access (OA) publishing more accessible to and equitable to researchers from lower- and lower-middle-income countries. Researchers publishing from these regions will automatically receive their APC waivers or discounts at the… Read More
Springer Nature unifies data policy across all journals and books to encourage open research practices - March 23, 2023
Springer Nature has taken a further step towards its commitment to open science by requiring mandatory data availability statements (DAS) across its journals portfolio and introducing its first unified data policy across the books portfolio. This means that authors submitting manuscripts to Springer Nature journals must provide… Read More
Cambridge University Press launches AI ethics policy for research publishing - March 14, 2023
Cambridge University Press has launched its AI ethics policy to help researchers use generative AI tools, such as ChatGPT, while upholding academic standards around transparency, plagiarism, accuracy, and originality. The guidelines include a ban on AI being treated as an author of academic papers… Read More
PLOS updates Human Subjects Research Policy for three of its journals - March 2, 2023
PLOS and other publishers have recently seen a rise in large-scale cases involving manipulation of the publication process, and PLOS staff are working to increase the stringency of their processes to keep problematic articles out of the literature. As part of this work, the Human Subjects Research… Read More
American Chemical Society releases 2023 public policy agenda - February 13, 2023
The American Chemical Society (ACS) will be working with the 118th Congress and the Biden administration to collaborate on ways to support the chemistry enterprise, seeking innovative solutions to challenges in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education, and workforce opportunities and training. The Society supports policies… Read More
AIP Publishing updates Author Policies and Ethics page to reflect the use of AI-Language models in scholarly communications - February 13, 2023
Discussion around the use of ChatGPT and other AI-based large language models has grown quickly over the past few months, and it seems every field is investigating how this technology can be used to accelerate or facilitate the way they work. Scholarly communications have not been immune to the impact… Read More
