RDA Publisher Forum - Chemistry Journal Data Submission and Sharing Policies Checklist 2017

This "Chemistry Journal Data Submission and Sharing Policies Checklist" was created in March 2017 for a Research Data Alliance (RDA) Publisher Forum at the 253rd American Chemical Society Meeting in San Francisco, CA. The Forum was sponsored by RDA and ACS Publications.<br>The chemical data journal policies checklist led to an observation suggesting an increased desire and requirement to share machine-readable spectral data within the chemistry community. Moreover, several publishers were already accepting machine-readable chemical structures. These conversations continued and helped lead to a follow-up discussion and workshop sponsored by NSF entitled: "FAIR Publishing Guidelines for Spectral Data and Chemical Structures." See the Open Science Framework link in the References section for more information.