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Add required PMC policies
This PR adds a policies page to the docs, as a contained space to add some of the policies required by PubMed Central (PMC).
Specifically, this PR adds the following policies:
- Animal research
- Data sharing
- Human participants research
These are not necessarily super applicable to JOSS, but adding these may help our PMC indexing process along. Additionally, it can't hurt having these in the off-chance it might be(come) relevant one day.
I very much welcome feedback as I try to move the PMC indexing process along (see also #153 and the Google Doc with the whole 6-step process). 😊
Thanks for working on this @chartgerink! @danielskatz's suggested improvements look good to me :-)
I'm ok with these changes, but wonder if we need to make changes in review criteria (in docs and in checklists) to match
Data sharing policy
JOSS doesn't allow novel results to be shared in our papers so I don't think we need to adapt our review process to accommodate this do we?
Animal research policy Human participants research policy
On these two points, I think we should know how our review criteria would change (and supporting guidelines) and have these available as a resource (to reviewers and editors) should either of these situations come up. Essentially, I'm not sure we should adapt the review process we have today to accommodate these policies because I think these situations are incredibly rare for JOSS.
Data sharing policy
JOSS doesn't allow novel results to be shared in our papers so I don't think we need to adapt our review process to accommodate this do we?
I think we do, in part because PMC wants it, even if it doesn't usually apply to us, but also because there might be performance data in our papers, or other data.
Animal research policy Human participants research policy
On these two points, I think we should know how our review criteria would change (and supporting guidelines) and have these available as a resource (to reviewers and editors) should either of these situations come up. Essentially, I'm not sure we should adapt the review process we have today to accommodate these policies because I think these situations are incredibly rare for JOSS.
I think we could perhaps add an item to the software paper checklist, perhaps something like
Human and animal research: If the paper contains original data research on humans subjects or animals, does it comply with JOSS's human participants research policy and/or animal research policy? If the paper contains no such data, please check this item with these two items linked to the relevant section of the policies document.
The question is if we think there's sufficient value in being PMC listed to do this, and I lean towards yes
Thanks @arfon and @danielskatz for your feedback! 🙏
Maybe add three items to the checklist in total, two for data and one as suggested by @danielskatz?
- Data sharing: If the paper contains original data, data are accessible to the reviewers. 2.Data sharing: If the paper contains original results, results are entirely reproducible by reviewers
- Human and animal research: If the paper contains original data research on humans subjects or animals, does it comply with JOSS's human participants research policy and/or animal research policy? If the paper contains no such data, please check this item
I'm taking a look where these would go beyond just in the /docs/review_checklist.md - am I correct that the templates for editorialbot are configured in here?
https://github.com/openjournals/joss-reviews/blob/master/.buffy/templates/reviewer_checklist.md
I'm taking a look where these would go beyond just in the /docs/review_checklist.md - am I correct that the templates for editorialbot are configured in here? https://github.com/openjournals/joss-reviews/blob/master/.buffy/templates/reviewer_checklist.md
Yes, that's correct @chartgerink. Feel free to open a PR to add these.