The NIH announced in July 2024 that applicants and funded investigators will be required to use SciENcv for deadlines on or after May 25, 2025. SciENcv, a tool from the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), already allows researchers to create and certify NSF documents. It will soon be required to create and certify the [Read more]
The updated NIH Public Access Policy (2024 Public Access Policy) for publications was issued on December 17, 2024. The updated 2024 Public Access Policy includes two supplemental notices: Publication Costs and Government Use License Use and Rights. The updated Policy is effective for peer-reviewed articles accepted for publication in a journal on or after December [Read more]
Learn more about the new ICMJE recommendations, Highly Cited Researchers from Clarivate, and Public Domain Day.
Learn more about PubMed Central’s efforts towards equitable access, publisher agreements for discounts or waivers of Article Processing Charges, and the Smithsonian Open Access images collection.
Learn more about Open October, and the Common Forms for Biographical Sketch and Current and Pending (Other) Support for NIH, SciENcv, and ORCID.
Learn more about retractions, the draft NIH Public Access Policy for publications and the new release of Journal Citation Reports (JCR).
Being aware of the distinction between Public Access and Open Access will be more important for authors over the next several years. By the end of 2024, all Federal funding agencies will have to release their plans per The White House Office of Science and Technology (OSTP) Memo of 2022: Ensuring Free, Immediate, and Equitable [Read more]
Learn more about SciENcv and using ORCID to build the new NSF biographical sketch, the new Elsevier Transformative Agreement, and the revised Public Access Policy for the Gates Foundation.
Learn more about policy changes for Journal Citation Reports, new website pages for the NIH Public Access Policy, and the Papermill Detection service from Wiley.
Why should WashU authors care about copyright? Knowledge of copyright, especially author rights, helps authors of scholarly works make informed publishing decisions such as where to publish and how the work will be used after publication.