STM welcomes UNESCO recommendation on Open Science - November 17, 2021
The International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers (STM) has welcomed the General Conference of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) recommendation on Open Science that was adopted at the 41st session of the organization held in Paris. STM members appreciate that… Read More
C4DISC updates Joint Statement of Principles - October 25, 2021
The Coalition for Diversity and Inclusion in Scholarly Communications (C4DISC), formed to discuss and address issues of diversity and inclusion within the industry, has updated their Joint Statement of Principles. In principle and in practice, collectively, C4DISC member and partner organizations value and seek accessibility, diversity,… Read More
Members of International Science Council endorse eight principles for reform, commit to work for change in scientific publishing - October 25, 2021
As the 2021 Open Access week begins, the scientific community as represented by the International Science Council’s members has approved a resolution committing to work to reform scholarly publishing, and to endorse eight fundamental principles for scientific publishing that contributes to the advancement of science as a… Read More
SPARC Europe to support high-level European OS policymaker group CoNOSC to advance national European Open Science policies - October 18, 2021
SPARC Europe is supporting the Council for National Open Science Coordination (CoNOSC) in their efforts to advance national European Open Science policies. The CoNOSC mission is to help countries create, update and co-ordinate their national open science policies by sharing valuable insights from the network. SPARC… Read More
AIP Publishing introduces author name change policy - October 13, 2021
AIP Publishing (AIPP) has announced a new policy to support authors who change their names. Anyone who has published an article on Scitation can now request a name change, privately and for any reason, so that they will continue to receive proper credit for their work. … Read More
PLOS launches new policy to improve transparency in the reporting of global research - September 30, 2021
The Public Library of Science (PLOS) has announced its aim to bring equity to publishing by launching a new policy to improve transparency in the reporting of research that is conducted in other countries or communities. The new policy will help mitigate a practice… Read More
Physical Review Journals announce name-change policy - September 15, 2021
The American Physical Society (APS) has released the details of its name-change policy for the Physical Review journals. The policy is intended to make the world’s leading physics journals more inclusive and ensure authors retain ownership of prior work published under a different name.… Read More
Public Knowledge Project accessibility statement - August 16, 2021
The Public Knowledge Project (PKP) is committed to providing a user experience that is accessible to the widest possible audience. To achieve this, a new OJS Default Theme was developed by PKP for OJS 3.3 and higher, and was audited for accessibility barriers. PKP is actively… Read More
Scientific Publishing Organizations and National Laboratories partner to support name change requests from researchers - July 29, 2021
All seventeen U.S. national laboratories and many prominent publishers, journals, and other organizations in scientific publishing have announced the beginning of a partnership to support name change requests from researchers on past published papers. Global research and education leader Wiley was one of the first publishers to… Read More
EDP Sciences announces author name change policy to support more inclusive publishing - July 28, 2021
EDP Sciences is committed to supporting and protecting the rights and identities of all authors in line with the principles guiding informing the Committee on Publication Ethics’ (COPE) working group. EDP Sciences has therefore introduced an author name change policy that… Read More
