Transparency in Research involving Animals: The Basel Declaration and new principles for reporting research in BJP manuscripts.

ABSTRACT: This article discusses the background to the need for change in the reporting of experiments involving animals, including a report of a consensus meeting organised by the Basel Declaration Society and Understanding Animal Research UK that sought to Internationalise guidelines for reporting experiments involving animals. A commentary on the evolution of BJP's attempts to implement the ARRIVE guidelines and details of our new guidance for authors is published separately (McGrath, 2014). This is one of a series of editorials discussing updates to the BJP Instructions to Authors LINKED EDITORIALS: This Editorial is the first in a series. The other Editorials in this series will be published in the forthcoming issues. To view them, visit: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)147

SUBMITTER: McGrath JC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4409896 | biostudies-literature | 2015 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature