Pilot 8 - An Editorial Reference Handbook for Reproducibility and FAIRness
The Editorial Reference Handbook informs and assists scholarly publishers in supporting the sharing of digital research objects and in operationalising findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable (FAIR) research practices by addressing gaps in editorial workflows, policy implementation and stakeholder alignment. The Handbook comprises three interrelated components—a checklist, detailed guidance, and a flowchart—intended primarily for in-house editorial staff while also providing value to reviewers, authors, and service providers.
The Pilot included representatives of Cambridge University Press, Cell Press, EMBO Press, F1000 (Taylor & Francis), GigaScience Press, Lancet, Oxford University Press, PLOS, Springer Nature, Wiley.
Stakeholders: Publishers
Objectives: The Handbook is created to help put the requirements of the journal data policy in action:
- journals that already have their own internal guidance will be able to use the handbook to validate and refine their existing methodology;
- journals that do not yet have their own internal guidance should use it as an opportunity to define their own process.
This work will be of use to in-house editorial staff managing the manuscripts, but also benefit reviewers, authors on what compliance to the journal data policy may require, as well as developers to drive their service provisions to publishers.