WIKIMEDIA, JOHANNES JANSSONElsevier, the publishing giant currently embroiled in disputes over open access to journal articles, has now become a signatory to scientific publishing’s Transparency and Openness Promotion Guidelines, according to an announcement made today (September 5) with the Center for Open Science (COS). The guidelines, published in June 2015 in Science by a committee of researchers, funding agency representatives, and journal editors from Europe and North America, detail eight standards designed to foster greater transparency in scientific communication in journals that publish research.
“Elsevier journals now encourage and enable authors to share data or make a data availability statement, which is part of our ongoing focus on research integrity and supporting good quality research,” Philippe Terheggen, Elsevier’s managing director of science, technical, and medical journals, says in a press release. “We look forward to strengthening our work with COS and will provide feedback from authors and editors, to develop the best possible solutions to promote reproducibility, transparency and quality of research.”
The published guidelines—which have already been adopted by AAAS, Springer Nature, Wiley, and others—include recommendations on how authors should present data and research materials, and lay out various degrees of stringency for their adoption at journals. For example, a level one adoption of the “data transparency” standard ...
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