The Resource Identification Initiative: A cultural shift in publishing.

ABSTRACT: A central tenet in support of research reproducibility is the ability to uniquely identify research resources, i.e., reagents, tools, and materials that are used to perform experiments. However, current reporting practices for research resources are insufficient to allow humans and algorithms to identify the exact resources that are reported or answer basic questions such as "What other studies used resource X?" To address this issue, the Resource Identification Initiative was launched as a pilot project to improve the reporting standards for research resources in the methods sections of papers and thereby improve identifiability and reproducibility. The pilot engaged over 25 biomedical journal editors from most major publishers, as well as scientists and funding officials. Authors were as

SUBMITTER: Bandrowski A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4648211 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature