Research Resource Identifiers (#RRID)

More good news: Invest in Open Infrastructure's InfraFinder platform now includes Research Resource Identifiers (#RRID)#RRID). Many thanks to the team at IOI, Kaitlin Thaney, Emma G., Nicky Wako and Chrys Wu! InfraFinder empowers researchers to easily locate solutions that adhere to these best practices, fostering collaboration and supporting open science. This addition aligns with InfraFinder’s mission to streamline the discovery and adoption of open infrastructure solutions in academia and research. Learn more about this initiative and its impact here: https://lnkd.in/eQuxtjrn

We are very pleased with the latest DataCite Metadata Schema 4.6 release as it further supports interoperability among persistent identifiers, with support for RRIDs (Research Resource IDentifiers) and CSTR (Common Science and Technology Resources) Identifiers to the relatedIdentifierType vocabulary. IYKYK 🤖 Many thanks, DataCite team!

Understanding RRID and ROR for Facilities In the rapidly evolving landscape of academic research, clear identification of entities such as research outputs, people, organizations, and resources is crucial. What about cases where it isn't clear which persistent identifier to use for a given entity? Anita Bandrowski (Research Resource Identifiers (#RRID)#RRID)) and Amanda French (ROR - Research Organization Registry) wrote a joint blog exploring the difference between "core facilities" in RRID and "facilities" in ROR and providing guidance for facility managers on how to use these identifiers effectively. Read the full blog on either of these websites: https://lnkd.in/e76fbzu3 https://lnkd.in/e-nEDk6U

Nature Magazine just published an insightful piece on the reproducibility crisis in biomedical research, highlighting the role of RRIDs in helping address this critical issue. At SciCrunch Inc., we’re proud to support researchers by providing RRIDs as a tool to improve transparency and reproducibility in scientific studies. Many thanks to our antibody partners: Thermo Fisher Scientific, Bio-Techne, GeneTex, Inc., Proteintech Group, DSHB at the University of Iowa and Addgene who have joined us in this vital initiative. Together, we are setting a new benchmark for reliability in science. Learn more in the article, and see how RRIDs are changing the game for reproducibility! https://lnkd.in/eeed7a5P #RRIDs #ReproducibilityCrisis #ResearchIntegrity #TransparencyInScience #SciCrunch Cell Signaling Technology (CST), Abcam, Aviva Systems Biology ABclonal Technology, Bioss Inc., RayBiotech, antibodies-online.com, Assay Biotech Inc., Biorbyt, Immunoway Biotechnology, Abcepta, YntoAb, Hello Bio, EpigenTek, EnoGene Biotech Co. Ltd, Abbexa, Abcalis GmbH, Innovative Research, Standard BioTools

We’re excited to connect with you next month at the Society for Neuroscience 🧠 Annual Meeting in Washington, #SfN2024. Be sure to stop by the Neuroscience Information Framework booth #1756 and meet our CEO, Anita Bandrowski or drop her a note at [email protected]. We are looking forward to seeing you in Chicago! SciScore, Research Resource Identifiers (#RRID), Antibody Registry

Preprints are in many ways just like published papers, except that they are not actually published papers. For many years the RRID project has not annotated preprints because we had not considered these published. They were assigned digital object identifiers and not PubMed identifiers so our systems were not tuned to accept these papers. However, if you have been looking at the bottom of our newsletters, you might notice that BioRxiv has climbed to the second most RRID-ed publisher and is really gaining on Elsevier. We considered these as "pre-papers" so why would we add RRID citations when the preprints will be published anyway. One of our students, Peter Eckmann, 2023, showed that 40-60% of preprints are never published elsewhere, at least over a period of ~2 years, suggesting that counting citations to RRIDs from preprints should be non-duplicative. Of course the other 40-60% of the preprints are published and then the RRID are double counted. More recently, we have been working to make sure that DOI citations are counted because some of our colleagues who use RRIDs to cite shared facilities are from fields that are not covered by PubMed. Therefore we can now start accepting citations to RRIDs in any scientific paper in physics, computer science or geology. We can also accept RRIDs for preprints. As if they were reading our minds, PubMed has started to accept preprints from several preprint servers including medRxiv and bioRxiv, so these manuscripts also do have PubMed IDs. We are therefore reaching out to see if you would be willing to answer a simple survey (3 questions): https://lnkd.in/dZwSe7wA These are the only questions and you can skip any of them: * Do you think that the RRID initiative should count RRID citations from preprints? * Why? * Do you take care of or run a resource? Please let us know what your feelings are about RRID citations in preprints.  We will announce the results next month from this survey. Below is an example of an annotation on a BioRxiv preprint.

SciScore Version 3 (Beta) Released with New Statistics Module and Author/Reviewer Dashboard San Diego, 5 August 2024 SciCrunch Inc. is pleased to announce the release of SciScore Version 3 (Beta) with significant improvements. We've listened to our users; many authors reached out to us wanting to know how we calculate the score and how to improve their results. Additionally, several publishers expressed interest in a tool to check for statistics requirements during the peer review. In response, we've implemented the following notable improvements: A redesigned report interface featuring a new cover page that provides an at-a-glance summary of how well the paper adheres to rigor and transparency guidelines. Comprehensive explanations and suggestions throughout the report to help users improve their scores and understand the scoring rationale. We have added a brand new statistics module. Our AI checks the statistical methods used and guides expected reporting practices. We would like to thank the ODDPub team for their work, which enabled us to update the deposited data classifier. Anita Bandrowski, CEO of SciScore, commented on the release: "The SciScore Version 3 beta update will bring along a major improvement for our users with an easy-to-interpret cover page. At a glance, they will be able to see where they don’t adhere yet to policy guidelines and we’ve created a brand-new statistics module to help researchers to provide the right information on their reporting.”

What is a ROR? RRIDs are persistent unique identifiers, used in scholarly publications for 8 years, enabling us to track research resources, but they certainly are not alone. This month we will spend a little time in discussing another identifier, the Research Organization Registry (ROR). ROR is a global, community-led registry of open persistent identifiers for research organizations. ROR makes it easy for anyone or any system to disambiguate institution names and connect research organizations to researchers and research outputs. RORs are a collaborative initiative by California Digital Library, Crossref, and DataCite. RORs are available under a very permissive license (CC0), they have a registry where you can look up your favorite organization and even have an API where you can look up all of your favorite organizations. RORs have largely replaced the GRIDs and ISNIs as the core source of identifiers of organizations and because of their rise as the identifier of choice for organizations the RRID curators have worked to ensure that our lists of resources can be queried by organization. Why would someone use RORs? It depends on who you are. Most researchers may only see RORs (and not know that they exist) as a better drop down list in their favorite journal as they fill in their collaborators affiliations. This use of ROR reduces the flowering of different ways to say "University of California at San Diego", the bane of computer scientists and administration officials everywhere. If you are an administrator of a university, you may want to ensure that the names of your institutions is consistent in your systems. If you are a computational scientist and wish to know which cities or countries are producing which kind of work, you may want to use the ROR services. _Why would RRIDs want to get along with RORs?_ RRIDs are not independent of all of the other PIDs. RRIDs rely on other PIDs like ORCIDs, DOIs, PMC Ids, PMIDs, and now RORs. PIDs are better together so we are going to keep working with other community members in order to align our PIDs to fill in the graphs that should make it possible to answer both scientific and administrative questions about research resources. Image Credit: https://ror.org/

Celebrating 35 years of core facilities! This month we are supporting the Assn of Biomolecular Resource Facilities (ABRF) 35th anniversary. For those of you who are not aware, this community organization started as a means to give a voice to the directors of university core facilities, who share some problems that more traditional faculty typically do not face. For example, the core directors must navigate the waters between getting grants, often centred on the purchase of new shared equipment, the ‘business’ of charging regular faculty for the use of the equipment, and doing their research (often, developing techniques). The association thus holds workshops and courses on non-traditional subjects such as accounting and business development because biologists, chemists, or other traditional faculty don’t normally know much about ‘running a business’, yet these skills are critical to the success of core facilities and their staff.   Jeffrey Weiss, a Northwestern University core director, had analyzed the discretionary dollars spent by grants supported by cores at his university (this was about 50% of all grants, a substantial number) and determined that after resources and equipment, the next largest category of grant spending (about 30% of the discretionary total) was spent on cores. Researchers he surveyed were largely happy with the cost and service provided by cores, with very few exceptions.   One of the interesting aspects of cores is that they represent a relatively small group of people which are experts in a technique or on an instrument and these people have an outsized impact on what a university publishes. With increasing complexity of scientific studies the cores play a significant role in diversifying the types of analyses, expertise and equipment available to investigators.   Core staff are experts in a technique and typically develop standard operating procedures that are implemented across multiple labs and projects improving among other things, rigor and reproducibility of scientific work.   Indeed, one group that the association has formed is the rigor and reproducibility group, that has held monthly meetings on different topics, and recently was the recipient of the Rigor Champions prize for implementing and raising awareness of RRIDs among cores. We at the RRID initiative are very grateful to the good work that this group and the rest of the association which has improved how science is done.   We hope that this wonderful organization continues to improve science, grow its membership, and advocates for cores as a source of education, good laboratory practices, and shared instrument stewardship for the next 35 years! How many RRIDs are there for ABRF facilities? 1,216 registered and counting...

Big News! Our CEO Anita Bandrowski will be speaking at AACR 2024 on Friday, April 5th on the importance of RRIDs in antibody research. See more: https://lnkd.in/gasdmx7N #AACR #AACR24