Disclaimer: The selection of links provided here does not claim to be exhaustive. They are examples. The editors welcome suggestions for the inclusion of further examples.

FAIR Guiding Principles for scientific data management and stewardship

The FAIR Principles(externer Link) provide guidelines for good practice in making digital data available and accessible in a research context. They cover the aspects of findability, access, interoperability and reuse of digital assets.

Handling of research data

DFG Guidelines on the Handling of Research Data(externer Link)

The Future of Scientific Publishing – ISC Principles

The International Science Council (ISC) has set down eight principles(externer Link) on how publishing as a public good can best serve scientific progress. These principles are highly consistent with the relevant DFG Guidelines for Safeguarding Good Research Practice and also with DFG funding practice.

Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing

The Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association has issued its Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing(externer Link). There are no “white lists” or “black lists”, and quite deliberately so: the principles, of which there are 16 in all, are intended as a checklist for publication media against which they can measure themselves. Lack of transparency with regard to one or more of the principles is an initial indication of doubt as to the integrity of a publication medium.