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.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.