The causes of the reproducibility crisis include lack of standardization and transparency in scientific reporting. Checklists such as ARRIVE and CONSORT seek to improve transparency, but they are not ...

Research resources like transgenic animals and antibodies are the workhorses of biomedicine, enabling investigators to relatively easily study specific disease conditions. As key biological resources,...

Many-author non-empirical papers include recommendations or consensus statements, catalogs of ideas, roadmaps for future research, calls to action, or “how to” articles. These papers have great potent...

Many-author non-empirical papers include “how to” articles, recommendations or consensus statements, roadmaps for future research, catalogs of ideas, or calls to action. These papers benefit the resea...

Background Tables are useful information artifacts that allow easy detection of missing data and have been deployed by several publishers to improve the amount of information present for key resources...

By providing authors with tools to enhance their reporting standards, we collectively advance the reliability and trustworthiness of scientific literature.

In dieser Woche werden mehrere Workshops und Seminare rund um das Thema Reproduzierbarkeit von Methoden angeboten. (In Englisch)

Surfacing reagents and resources

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For today's Kitchen Essentials post, Alice Meadows interviews Stephanie Dawson, CEO of ScienceOpen, about her thoughts on and experience of research infrastructure, as the leader of an organization…

At the start  of every December, STM hosts their innovation and integrity days in London. This year, research integrity was the focus of both days, reflecting growing interest and concern in the publi...

The DataCite Metadata Working Group. (2024) just released the new version of the DataCite Metadata and one of the things that it includes is RRIDs. DataCite Metadata Schema Documentation for the Pu...

As DataCite continually works to support our growing community, updating the DataCite Metadata Schema to better represent community use cases supports our goals of driving metadata quality and completeness.  Today, we’re excited to share the release of DataCite Metadata Schema 4.6, which expands the resourceTypeGeneral, relatedIdentifierType, relationType, contributorType, and dateType controlled lists in response to community feedback. We also updated the documentation to clarify allowed values for language codes. Everything is described in the Version Update notes in the documentation, available through the web and in PDF format.