Pilots

This Pilot will co-create and test an Editorial Reference Handbook that contributes towards a common understanding and what is required to assist reproducibility and FAIRness. The Handbook, identified as a priority in a workshop with publishers,  will include two components. A structured section will include educational and practical set of checks, defined by reviewing existing material, harmonising and operationalising them. Some journals have internal checks, but the type, richness and stringency vary, and there is little/no consensus among publishers. A narrative component with a general  framework will help improve internal processes, defined by describing an ideal process where checks should be applied. There are a variety of internal processes, and how, when and by whom these checks are done vary, and this can also affect the results. 

The Pilot includes representatives of Cambridge University Press, Cell Press, EMBO Press, F1000 (Taylor & Francis), GigaScience Press, Lancet, Oxford University Press, PLOS, Springer Nature, Wiley.