DOAJ News The DOAJ Ambassadors’ biographies The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) indexes around 10,000 open access journals covering all areas of science, technology, medicine, social science and humanities. It is a white list of open access journals and…

COPE News The Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) released updated version of its guidelines for peer reviewers, September, 2017. COPE has provided advice to editors and publishers on all aspects of publication ethics and, in particular, how to handle cases…

EASE News The European Association of Science Editors (EASE) formed a new working group looking at guidelines, good practice, the culture of review and how to recognise and reward reviewers and many other topics related to peer review. URL: http://www.ease.org.uk/strategy-groups/peer-review-committee The…

CSE News Summer 2017 Vol.40 No.1 of Science Editor was published 29 September. This issue of Science Editor features a focus on careers and missions in the scientific publication ecosystem and provides interviews with editors, managers and consultants. This issue…