Guides and policies.
Every guide, policy, declaration and checklist of Standards Progress, published by Nexus Standards, grouped by who needs it. State of the standards: adoption, conformance, crosswalks, domain and industry profiles.
What Standards Progress asks of you.
The state of the Nexus Standards parts and of the external standards they adopt: adoption, conformance attested by those who apply them, crosswalks, and domain and industry profiles. The parts are preparatory working drafts (2026); conformance is attestation, not certification. Read the guides below with this remit in mind; Nexus Standards decides what it takes.
Standards Progress takes:
- Evidence that a body has adopted or applies a part, stated by that body
- A conformance attestation, with what was checked
- A crosswalk between a part and an external standard
- A proposed clause or a comment on a part, for its docket
Its reading role is standards reading (new). Contributions reach it through the form reports.contribution.nxs, and its records are deposited in the Zenodo community nexusreports-nxs.
Prepare and send your work.
- Author guidelineswhat the desk takes, what to declare, the review model and timelines
- Submit to the journalthe staged-review submission, with a reference
- Contributethe routing table and the short contribution form
- Check a submissionfollow a reference to its current step
- Templatesthe structures of an edition, chapter, brief, dataset and profile
- Contributor onboarding checklistwhat to have ready before you send
- Authorship and credit declarationwho did what, in CRediT roles
- Contributor agreementthe terms a contribution is made under
- Contribution termsthe legal terms of a contribution
Review for the desk.
- Reviewer guidelinesconflicts, confidentiality, the six-criterion rubric and timing
- Become a reviewerjoin the reviewer pool
- Peer review policythe review models and how decisions use reviews
- Reviewer charterwhat the desk asks of a reviewer, and what it owes one
- Reviewer onboarding checklistthe steps before a first review
- Conflict of interest declarationwhat to declare and when
- Open peer review logpublished reviews, with the reviewers’ consent
Run the desk.
- Editor handbookscreening, reviewer invitations, decisions and production
- Editor charterthe editor’s duties and limits
- Editorial board charterhow the board decides, in public
- Editorial independence statementwho can and cannot influence a decision
- Quarterly release checklistthe checks before an edition is released
- Incident response for publication errorswhat happens when a published page is wrong
- Editorial boardwho decides on this desk
Deposit, licence and reuse.
- Open sciencethe Zenodo steps and the deposit builder
- Data sharing and reuse guidehow data enters an edition and how to reuse it
- Open access and licensing policytext under CC BY 4.0, data under CC0
- Licensing FAQcommon licence questions, answered
- Research and data termsthe legal terms for research use of the data
- Preservation and continuity planhow records outlive a site
Raise a concern.
- Ethics and COPE policyconflicts, complaints, misconduct, appeals and retractions
- Research integrity declarationwhat an author declares about the work
- Ethics and misconduct procedurehow an allegation is handled
- Corrections, retractions and appeals policythe rules behind every notice
- Corrections logevery notice on this desk, newest first
- Complaints and integritywhere a complaint goes
- Takedown and dispute procedurerights claims and disputes
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What you can do from this page.
- ReaderNew to the reports? A short guide to reading an edition.Start here
- ContributorSend evidence, data or a correction to this desk.Contribute
- ReviewerReview for this desk; verified reviews are credited.Become a reviewer
- Editor, steward or boardQueues, decisions and production are in the workspace.My workspace
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