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  • European Science Editing Issue 45(3) released!

    The latest issue of our journal, European Science Editing, is now online. The full issue is available to EASE members, the Editorial and Original articles are freely available to all readers.

    We hand over to our Editor in Chief, Ksenija Baždarić, for her introduction to the issue:

    In October, EASE will host a double event in collaboration with the European Council combining our member-only AGM with an open participation discussion forum: GDPR and privacy in journal publishing: good practice for submission and peer review processes.

    EASE has signed the Leiden declaration on more transparent editorial journal policies; we invite you to sign it as well.

    We thank our colleague John Hilton for his invaluable work as the News Notes editor for so long. We wish him success in his many endeavours and at the same time we welcome Yateendra Joshi as the first ESE copy editor.

    This issue opens with the editorial by our Council member Rachael Lammey from CrossRef, “Data sharing and data citation: join the movement!”, in which she brings news about data sharing. In the original article, Juan Jose Prieto analyzes documents about ResearchGate indexed in Google Scholar between 2008 and 2017. The essay section has two interesting articles. The first offers guidance about how to detect misconduct in biomedical images by Ye and Lin. The second, by Kozak and Hartley, comments on the inconsiderate nature of many science articles.

    In the meeting reports section, Olga Kirillova reports from the 8th International Scientific and Practical Conference “World-Class Scientific Publication – 2019: Strategy and Tactics of Management and Development” in Moscow, Russia and Fiona Murphy’s Researcher to Reader Conference that takes place in London every February. This issue’s forum digest summarizes a vivid discussion about reviewing and confidentiality (a must-read) and in This Site I Like you can read about the cOAlition S alliance and its plan to accelerate the transition to a full open access model for scholary publication.

    Ksenija Baždarić
    Editor in Chief
    European Science Editing

  • Data citation roadmap for publishers

    A recent article published in the journal Scientific Data presents a practical roadmap for scholarly publishers to implement data citation in accordance with the Joint Declaration of Data Citation Principles (JDDCP), a synopsis and harmonization of the recommendations of major science policy bodies.

    This declaration was developed by the Publishers Early Adopters Expert Group as part of the Data Citation Implementation Pilot (DCIP) project, an initiative of FORCE11.org and the NIH BioCADDIE program. The group, and authors of the paper include representatives from major publishers and journals such as Helena Cousijn (Elsevier), Amye Kenall (Springer Nature), Emma Ganley (PLoS), Melissa Harrison (eLife), Thomas Lemberger (EMBO Press) and more.

    The structure of the roadmap presented in the paper follows the “life of a paper” workflow and includes four categories:

    Pre-submission
    Submission
    Production
    Publication

    The roadmap is intended to be publisher-agnostic so that all publishers can use this as a starting point when implementing JDDCP-compliant data citation.

    Figure 1 from Cousijn et al. (1) Data citation in text; (2) Reference; (3) Globally resolvable unique identifier. Example from Beresford NA, et al. (2016). Available at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvrad.2015.03.02216.

    Authors reading this roadmap will also better know what to expect from publishers and how to enable their own data citations to gain maximum impact, as well as complying with what will become increasingly common funder mandates on data transparency.

    Cousijn, H. et al. A data citation roadmap for scientific publishers. Scientific Data.
    5:180259 doi: 10.1038/sdata.2018.259 (2018).