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TIER2's Pilot 8, The Editorial Reference Handbook, was highlighted during the 19th International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC) 2025, held in The Hague, the Netherlands, on 19 February 2025. The IDCC conference focused on reflecting on the past twenty years of digital curation while looking forward to the future, emphasising lessons learned and the directions ahead. Dr. Rebecca Taylor-Grant, a partner at TIER2, presented the initiativ...

A workshop with representatives of major publishers indicated that strengthening their journals’ data policies and training their in-house editorial staff were among the key priorities to improve the availability of data underpinning publications, and foster good practices for sharing data, ultimately advancing open research. Fast forward two years, the Editorial Reference Handbook informs and assists journals to operationalise a s...

TIER2's Pilot 8 was recently highlighted in the Journalology newsletter, a key resource for editors and publishing professionals aiming to stay current with scholarly publishing and looking for guidance on how to build influential scholarly journals. In its 80th issue, the newsletter showcased TIER2's Pilot 8, which is set to co-create and evaluate an Editorial Reference Handbook for Reproducibility and FAIRness. This handbook aims to foster a...

Steered by the mission to foster community-driven stakeholder development, TIER2 has launched its Pilot activities campaign #TIER2Pilots. These eight activities, co-designed with the project’s stakeholders, aim to revolutionise reproducibility-related tools and practices across the research lifecycle. Throughout the past weeks, we have shared insights into each Pilot's journey, finishing the campaign with Pilot 1 – Decisi...

Steered by the mission to foster community-driven stakeholder development, TIER2 has launched its Pilot activities campaign #TIER2Pilots. These eight activities, co-designed with the project’s stakeholders, aim to revolutionise reproducibility-related tools and practices across the research lifecycle. For the upcoming weeks, we will be sharing insights into each Pilot's journey, continuing with Pilot 2 – Reproducibility M...

Steered by the mission to foster community-driven stakeholder development, TIER2 has launched its Pilot activities campaign #TIER2Pilots. These eight activities, co-designed with the project’s stakeholders, aim to revolutionise reproducibility-related tools and practices across the research lifecycle. For the upcoming weeks, we will be sharing insights into each Pilot's journey, continuing with Pilot 3 - Reproducible Work...

Steered by the mission to foster community-driven stakeholder development, TIER2 has launched its Pilot activities campaign #TIER2Pilots. These eight activities, co-designed with the project’s stakeholders, aim to revolutionise reproducibility-related tools and practices across the research lifecycle. For the upcoming weeks, we will be sharing insights into each Pilot's journey, continuing with Pilot 4 - Reproducibility C...

Steered by the mission to foster community-driven stakeholder development, TIER2 has launched its Pilot activities campaign #TIER2Pilots. These eight pilots, co-designed with the project’s stakeholders, aim to develop effective reproducibility-related tools and practices across the research lifecycle to promote reproducibility in diverse epistemic contexts and diverse stakeholders. For the upcoming weeks, we will be shar...

Guided by the mission to foster community-driven stakeholder development, TIER2 has launched its Pilot activities campaign #TIER2Pilots. These eight activities, co-designed with the project’s stakeholders, aim to revolutionise reproducibility-related tools and practices across the research lifecycle. For the upcoming weeks, we will be sharing insights into each Pilot's journey, continuing with Pilot 6 – Reproducibility Mo...

Guided by the mission to foster community-driven stakeholder development, TIER2 has launched its Pilot activities campaign #TIER2Pilots. These eight activities, co-designed with the project’s stakeholders, aim to revolutionise reproducibility-related tools and practices across the research lifecycle. For the upcoming weeks, we will be sharing insights into each Pilot's journey, continuing with Pilot 7 – Editorial Workflow...

Guided by the mission to foster community-driven stakeholder development, TIER2 has launched its Pilot activities campaign #TIER2Pilots. These eight activities, co-designed with the project’s stakeholders, aim to revolutionise reproducibility-related tools and practices across the research lifecycle. For the upcoming weeks, we will be sharing insights into each Pilot's journey, starting with Pilot 8 – An Editorial Refe...