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
Angewandte Chemie announces inaugural group of Advisory Editors and new practices to drive greater inclusivity - July 21, 2021
Angewandte Chemie, a leading chemistry journal from the German Chemical Society, has announced a new group of Advisory Editors and set of policies and practices to support greater diversity, equity and inclusion, delivering on key commitments made in June 2020. In the past year, Angewandte Chemie has made strides… Read More
NISO announces publication of its updated ANSI/NISO Z39.4, Criteria for Indexes - July 14, 2021
The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) has announced the publication of its updated ANSI/NISO Z39.4, Criteria for Indexes, incorporating feedback from the public comment period earlier this year. It replaces the original ANSI/NISO Z39.4 standard (Guidelines for Indexes and Related Information Retrieval Devices), last updated in 1984,… Read More
Springer Nature introduces name change policy to enable transgender scholars and others to update their name on published works - June 29, 2021
Springer Nature has announced the launch of its inclusive author name change policy, which will enable transgender authors and those authors at risk to retroactively update their name on the version of record (VOR) and associated metadata in all Springer Nature journals, books and conference proceedings. … Read More
Karger Publishers and Manuscript Manager conducts trial with Active Author Guidelines - June 23, 2021
Karger Publishers and Manuscript Manager, in collaboration with Penelope.ai, are conducting a trial with Active Author Guidelines: An author-facing manuscript prechecker, designed to improve the accuracy of the author’s submission. Active Author Guidelines allows authors to actively check if their… Read More
Hindawi and Rockefeller University Press Journals announce new name change policy - June 11, 2021
Open access publisher Hindawi has announced that authors who change their name after publishing an article with Hindawi will be able to update their name on the article on request, without a correction notice. Any author name change following publication will be respected… Read More
UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science - June 8, 2021
UNESCO member states have agreed upon a final draft of the UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science as of May 11, 2021. The Recommendation defines shared values and principles for Open Science and puts forward concrete measures on Open Access and Open Data. It serves… Read More
