Under open access (OA) publishing, researchers from low- and lower-middle-income countries will now be able to publish for free in Nature and 36 other Nature research journals.
Under open access (OA) publishing, researchers from low- and lower-middle-income countries will now be able to publish for free in Nature and 36 other Nature research journals
Cell’s publisher invites statements in papers about studies’ diversity and inclusion efforts
Jan. 14, 2021 , 10:05 AM
After reading a paper about Amazonian frogs in May 2020, behavioral ecologist Daniela Roessler of Harvard University was astonished. The study named 27 authors, all male. The publication sparked an outcry on Twitter for more diversity in science. Roessler and colleagues then wrote a letter to journal publishers suggesting a way for authors to help advance that goal: publicly declare in their submitted manuscripts whether they had considered diversity, equity, and inclusion in the study.
Last week, Cell Press, publisher of more than 50 journals, became one of the first publlshers to invite authors to do so. The publisher whose titles include the prestigious