The Resource Identification Initiative: A cultural shift in publishing
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Bandrowski, AnitaBrush, Matthew
Grethe, Jeffery S.
Haendel, Melissa A.
Kennedy, David N.
Hill, Sean
Hof, Patrick R.
Martone, Maryann E.
Pols, Maaike
Tan, Serena
Washington, Nicole
Zudilova-Seinstra, Elena
Vasilevsky, Nicole
UMass Chan Affiliations
Department of PsychiatryDocument Type
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2015-11-19Keywords
Multi-centre initiativePost-pilot data
Pre-pilot data
Publishing
Resource identifiers
Research reproducibility
Scholarly Publishing
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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 asked to include Research Resource Identifiers (RRIDs) in their manuscripts prior to publication for three resource types: antibodies, model organisms, and tools (including software and databases). RRIDs represent accession numbers assigned by an authoritative database, e.g., the model organism databases, for each type of resource. To make it easier for authors to obtain RRIDs, resources were aggregated from the appropriate databases and their RRIDs made available in a central web portal ( www.scicrunch.org/resources). RRIDs meet three key criteria: they are machine readable, free to generate and access, and are consistent across publishers and journals. The pilot was launched in February of 2014 and over 300 papers have appeared that report RRIDs. The number of journals participating has expanded from the original 25 to more than 40. Here, we present an overview of the pilot project and its outcomes to date. We show that authors are generally accurate in performing the task of identifying resources and supportive of the goals of the project. We also show that identifiability of the resources pre- and post-pilot showed a dramatic improvement for all three resource types, suggesting that the project has had a significant impact on reproducibility relating to research resources.Source
Version 2. F1000Res. 2015 May 29 [revised 2015 Nov 19];4:134. doi: 10.12688/f1000research.6555.2. eCollection 2015. Link to article on publisher's siteDOI
10.12688/f1000research.6555.2Permanent Link to this Item
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14038/39920PubMed ID
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This article is being simultaneously published by Brain and Behavior [10.1002/brb3.417], F1000 Research [10.12688/f1000research.6555.2], and Neuroinformatics [10.1007/s12021-015-9284-3].
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