Integrity Café

The ATLAS discussion on Accountability (in Research) has been extended and will now close in three days, so SIA contributors and subscribers who have not yet taken part still have time to share their perspective.

ATLAS is SIA’s open encyclopedia of research integrity terms and concepts, and each entry is tested by people working across disciplines and countries before it is updated. We are asking one question: how much do you agree with the ATLAS definition, context and example of Accountability (in Research), and how would you improve them? Responding takes two to four minutes and is fully anonymous, and you can read how others answered, react to their reasoning and revise your own position until the round closes.

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NISO has opened public comment on its draft Accessibility Remediation Metadata (ARM) standard, NISO Z39.107-202x, and is accepting feedback until November 9, 2026. The standard offers a shared vocabulary for describing how, and to what extent, a book, article, video or other resource has been altered to make it accessible to people with disabilities, so that libraries, universities and publishers can find and share remediated versions instead of repeating the same work. The draft, the comment form and the comments received so far are all on the working group page: https://www.niso.org/standards-committees/arm

https://jodischneider.com/blog/2026/09/15/job-opportunity-postdoctoral-fellow-in-research-quality-scientometrics-and-metascience-university-of-wisconsin-madison-information-school/ The Information Quality Lab in the University of Wisconsin–Madison Information School seeks a Postdoctoral Fellow to conduct research in the areas of research quality, scientometrics, and metascience, under the mentorship of Dr. Jodi Schneider.

In this role you will receive mentoring and community support to prepare for permanent appointments both inside and outside of academia. The successful candidate will work with Dr. Schneider to create an individual development plan.

The successful candidate will lead, conduct, and publish research, and write grant proposals, in an interdisciplinary environment. Key work will be to (1) conduct a scoping review of the literature; and (2) to develop and test scientometric indicators of epistemic integrity, methodological rigor, and innovation for the project CULTIVATE: Transforming Scientific Systems by Cultivating Virtue Ethics in Scientists. CULTIVATE is led by a team of three UW–Madison faculty members: Dr. Schneider (bibliometrics); a clinical psychologist at the Center for Healthy Minds (psychometrics); an…

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