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Driving transparency in pharma research communications https://www.openpharma.blog/

This quarter: topic meeting about HIFA-WHO report on universal access to healthcare information; Medical Writing article about electronic product information; CC licence landscape project report; Bayer joins Open Pharma as a Supporter; blog post about the PLS Finder project; guest blog post about sharing science on social media; content reuse permissions, restrictions and costs impact assessment survey launch; guest blog post about why open access and plain language matter for students; HIFA OA working group launch; HCP OA survey results presented; roundtable proposals submitted to the ISMPP 2026 European Meeting. Up next : HCP OA perspectives thematic discussion with HIFA; topic meetings about the NISO OA Business Processes and Registered Reports; ISMPP 2026 Annual Meeting session and abstract submissions; PLSP playbook launch; guest blog post by Kora Korzec ; Open Pharma Day and the Open Pharma Annual General Meeting.
Your new ISMPP committee members: Sophie Nobes, Digital Engagement and Visual Communications; Joanna Donnelly, Publication Ethics and Standards
EMWA Spring Conference Riga, Latvia 6–9 May 2025 Join our roundtable titled 'Cross-publisher plain language article guidance: have your say' on 8 May at 07:45–08:30 EEST with Sarah Griffiths, Communications Director at Oxford PharmaGenesis
Don't miss these Open Pharma activities at ISMPP Annual 2025. 12 May | 17:15–18:00 EDT Raise your voice: orchestrating cross-publisher PLSP guidance (roundtable) 12 May | 18:00–19:00 EDT Cross-publisher agreement on the defining principles of PLSPs (poster) Use of plain language summaries by healthcare professionals: an Open Pharma survey (poster) 13 May | 15:45–16:30 EDT Tuning out predatory publishers: how to identify and avoid insidious publication practices (roundtable)
"With the rise in artificial intelligence, close collaboration between publishers and pharma is increasingly important to drive trust and transparency in research communication." - Joanna Donnelly, Communications Consultant at Oxford PharmaGenesis. Joanna will be at the ALPSP University Press Redux Conference on Thursday 3 and Friday 4 April.
This card shows the title of our workshop, 'More power to the reader: how can we improve research communication by making content more readable?', which will take place at the Researcher to Reader Conference from 25 to 26 February. Beneath the workshop title are photos of the workshop facilitators Joana Osório, Laura Dormer and Sarah Thomas.