This week, we encourage you to register for the 2025 European Meeting of ISMPP and the 10th annual Researcher to Reader Conference. We share the latest consultation from the UNESCO Global Diamond OA Alliance and hear about revisions to the Declaration of Helsinki. Finally, we read about a collaboration between Taylor & Francis and DataSeer to automate open science implementation, Web of Science’s suspension of eLife, and how to responsibly share indigenous peoples’ data.
To engage with:
ISMPP Europe 2025 via ISMPP
Registration for the 2025 European Meeting of the International Society for Medical Publication Professionals (ISMPP) is now open! Under the theme of Core values for an integrated age, the meeting will address intersections between technological advances and human insights in the context of medical publications. We look forward to seeing you in London, UK from 27 to 29 January 2025!
Researcher to Reader 2025 via Research to Reader Conference
Join the Researcher to Reader Conference as it celebrates its 10th anniversary! The 2-day meeting from 25 to 26 February 2025 will see debates, interviews, lightening talks and workshops, including one from Open Pharma exploring how we can improve research communication by making content more readable! Read the full programme and register now.
Have your say: UNESCO diamond OA consultation via UNESCO
In July this year, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) announced the Global Diamond OA Alliance. Now you can contribute your insights to help shape the Alliance’s diamond open access (OA) framework. The survey – available in English, French, Spanish and Portuguese – will take 15–20 minutes to complete. Results will be shared at the 2nd Global Summit on Diamond OA in December 2024.
To listen to:
Revising the Declaration of Helsinki via JAMA Author Interviews | 15-minute listen
“This particular revision, for example, addresses some of the risks to patient confidentiality in a world of AI [artificial intelligence] and machine learning and big data collection” explains Jack Resneck Jr (Chair of the World Medical Association Declaration of Helsinki revision group). In this podcast from JAMA Author Interviews, Jack discusses the motivations and process behind the 2024 Revision of the Declaration of Helsinki with Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo (Editor in Chief at JAMA). More information about the revisions can be found in this press release.
To read:
Open science automations by Taylor & Francis and DataSeer via Taylor & Francis | 3-minute read
Taylor & Francis and DataSeer have teamed up to address the practical challenges of open research implementation using AI insights and automation. Through two pilot projects – one aiming to automate editorial data-sharing checks and the other to analyse Open Science Metrics across 5000 articles – they hope to streamline editorial processes while enhancing research transparency and reproducibility.
Web of Science suspends eLife via Science | 4-minute read
Could eLife be about to lose its Journal Impact Factor? Web of Science has suspended eLife from its indexing service because of concerns about the journal’s novel publishing model. Adopted in January 2023, the model aims to “help researchers choose alternative ways to share their research, convince institutions and funders to look beyond one-dimensional measures, and encourage journals to offer publishing models that embody the principles of open science”. Following a review of quality by Clarivate – Web of Science’s parent company and the organization behind Journal Impact Factors – eLife could be removed from the Master Journal List, a move that would see the journal lose its Impact Factor.
Protecting indigenous peoples’ data via Science | 15-minute read
“’Accessible’ means somebody can access it but you are still allowed to regulate it”, says Rosie Alegado (Associate Professor, Oceanography and Sea Grant at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa). This article explores what it means to make data ‘as open as possible, as closed as necessary’ in the context of FAIR (findable, accessible, interoperable, reusable) and CARE (collective benefit, authority to control, responsibility, ethics) data principles.
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