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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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The subscription brings together resources, community spaces and practical support to help you apply research integrity in your day-to-day work.

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The January–March 2026 issue of REACH is now live! 🎉

This issue asks a question that runs through everything we cover: How do we know what to trust? 🔍

What's inside:

📊 Feature Coverage: CRediT and its role in strengthening accountability across disciplines 

🏆 Spotlight: Five years of the Einstein Foundation Award

🔀 Crossroads: A funder-led approach to open science

🚀 We're launching a new section in REACH magazine called Community, dedicated to showcasing grassroots initiatives started by individuals, lab groups, or local communities to address specific research integrity challenges in their context.

👀 We're looking for initiatives like local networks, peer-learning groups, reproducibility clubs, discussion groups, or any community-led effort that others can join, adapt, or replicate.

📖 Each selected initiative will receive a dedicated piece in REACH that tells its story: what it does, what it has achieved, and how others can get involved.

🌟 Do you know a grassroots initiative that deserves more visibility? Please share a name, a brief description, and a link, if available.

To be eligible, initiatives should be grassroots in origin, active within the past 12 months, non-commercial, open to participation or replication in other regions and contexts, and aligned with SIA's mission.

Looking forward to your nominations!

Dates: 4 February 2026 & 11 February 2026

Location: Online Event

Build your capacity to train others in reproducible research. Each workshop runs over two half-day online sessions, one week apart. Participants are expected to attend both sessions and complete a short homework task between them.

Free to attend; places are limited.

- Format: live online, interactive, small group activities and discussion

- Audience: trainers, educators, and researchers who teach or support best practice in research

I've just updated my preprint on short personal reviews of Academic Novels on Research Integrity, which now covers 35 titles. Please attend me to novels which you believe to belong to this list, but are not yet included.

Bouter L. Academic novels on research integrity. MetaArXiv (Submitted: January 9, 2025 -Last edited: January 13, 2026). https://doi.org/10.31222/osf.io/9ntxg

In today’s research world, paying to make your paper open access can cost thousands — but does it really lead to more citations? 📈

A new video lay summary, created for MIRROR, a resource from the Science Integrity Alliance, unpacks a large-scale study of 146,000+ biology papers that explored whether paying for open access truly increases visibility and impact.

The results? Open access can boost citations — especially for smaller research teams — but paying more doesn’t always mean reaching more readers.

🎥 Watch the 10-minute summary here: https://lnkd.in/eYy4T4mu

For more, please visit the  MIRROR HUB

A new MIRROR summary from Science Integrity Alliance breaks down a study tracking how early COVID-19 preprints changed after expert review. The results? 🧠

✅ 4 in 5 preprints kept their core conclusions.

 ⚙️ Data stayed mostly the same — but some abstracts shifted tone.

 🔍 Transparency and data sharing still lagged behind.

Science under pressure mostly held firm — but the study reminds us that open, transparent review is key to fighting misinformation and building public trust.

🎥 Watch the full 6-minute video summary here: