Part three of a three-part series aims to discuss the topic of advancing accessibility within scholarly communication with the focus of digital accessibility.
Haseeb Irfanullah looks at the various activities being taken by publishing organizations to support the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.
Why are national PID strategies having a moment, and why should you care? Find out in today’s post by Alice Meadows.
The President of the American Nuclear Society explains why the Nelson Memo may cause trepidation but bring opportunity.
New arrangements planned in Texas and India move us away from a universal transition to OA, and back towards the Big Deal.
Iain Hrynaszkiewicz discusses PLOS’s Open Science Indicators initiatives and shares initial results.
Funder guidance is too vague when it comes to identifiers and metadata. It needs to get specific to be effective.
On the occasion of the 27th Conference of the Parties (COP27) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), Haseeb Md. Irfanullah explores scholarly publishers’ role in tackling climate crisis.
What is the most likely scenario for implementation of the OSTP’s Nelson Memo? And what strategies will that offer for publishers?
FORCE11 and COPE release recommendations on data publishing ethics for researchers, publishers, and editors.
We are into the 8th month of Russia’s war against Ukraine. How has the scholarly publishing sector continued to respond?
In guest post, Simon Linacre of Digital Science discusses their latest state of open data survey against the backdrop of the recent OSTP memo on expanding public access to research results.
Karin Wulf and Rick Anderson reflect on the OSTP’s response to their interview questions, and on some implications of those responses and of the memo itself.
Karin Wulf and Rick Anderson interview Dr. Alondra Nelson, acting director of the White House Office on Science & Technology Policy when the new OSTP memo was published.
Today we announce another round of article translations, this time into Korean, Chinese, and Japanese.