If you sit in the editorial board of a scholarly / scientific journal, or are adjacent or interested on this kind of stuff, you should probably read this:
"The scientific journal, beyond experts: the communication strategies of The New England Journal of Medicine and The Lancet"
Update. Some colleagues and I have been collecting university #RightsRetention #OpenAccess policies for the #OpenAccessDirectory (#OAD). We now have 170.
https://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/University_rights-retention_OA_policies
Spread the word. The world could use many more.
What makes Dryad the right home for human research data?
Ask Dr. Ann Van de Wickel of University of Minnesota Medical School.
#opendata #openresearch #openscience #medicine #humansubjects #humanresearch #scholcomm
https://blog.datadryad.org/2026/05/12/what-makes-dryad-the-right-home-for-human-research-data/
Kudos to #Yale for adopting a #RightsRetention #OpenAccess policy, to take effect July 1, 2026.
https://guides.library.yale.edu/FAS-SEAS-AuthorRightsPolicy
"Throughout my career, I have been motivated by a commitment to strengthening the conditions for #research and #HigherEducation, driven by the belief that strong research systems ultimately benefit society as a whole." — Curt Rice
📰 https://www.coalition-s.org/coalition-s-appoints-curt-rice-as-director/
cOAlition S is pleased to announce the appointment of Curt Rice as its new Director. With this appointment and the adoption of the 2026–2030 Strategy, we move together to advance various models of open scholarship.
https://www.coalition-s.org/coalition-s-appoints-curt-rice-as-director/
More evidence of the corrosive impact of AI on #scholarship #integrity. According to this research in the biomedical context, #fabricated #citations existed in: ~1 in 2,828 papers (2023), ~1 in 458 (2025), ~1 in 277 (early 2026). A twelvefold increase.
Horrifying. The recommendations here are obvious (e.g. #retractions); but I might also suggest that sanctions against authors who are found to have submitted such work are necessary (e.g. desk rejection).
petersuber
Leonardo Fontenelle
Peter Suber
Dryad
cOAlition S
George Macgregor