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about scientific resources. It is a community portal for researchers and a content management system for data and databases. It is intended to provide a common source of data to the research community and the data about Research Resource Identifiers (

RRIDs SciCrunch is a collaboratively edited knowledge base about scientific resources. It is a community portal for researchers and a content management system for data and databases. It is intended to provide a common source of data to the research commu ...

), which can be used in

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. In some respect, it is for science and scholarly publishing, similar to what

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is for

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projects. Hosted by the

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, SciCrunch was also designed to help communities of researchers create their own portals to provide access to resources,

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s and tools of relevance to their research areas

Research Resource Identifiers

Research Resource Identifiers (RRID) are supposed to be resource identifiers which are globally unique and persistent. They were introduced and are promoted by the Resource Identification Initiative. Resources in this context are research resources like reagents, tools or materials. An example for such a resource would be a cell line used in an experiment or

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used in a computational analysis. The Resource Identification Portal (https://scicrunch.org/resources) was created in support of this initiative and is a central service where these identifiers can be searched and created. These identifiers should be fully searchable by data mining unlike supplementary files, and can be updated to new versions as basic methodology changes over time.

Format for RRID citations

The recommendation for citing research resources is shown below for key biological resources: * Antibody: Millipore Cat# MAB377 (Lot) RRID:AB_2298772 * Model organism: NXR Cat# 1.0049, RRID:NXR_1.0049 * Cell line: Coriell Cat# GM03745, RRID:CVCL_1H60 * Tools: CellProfiler Image Analysis Software, (version or date) RRID:SCR_007358 The Resource Identification Portal lists existing RRIDs and instructions for creating a new one if an RRID matching the resource does not already exist.

Institutions and publishers recommending use of RRIDs

A number of publishing houses, initiatives, and research institutions encourage using SciCrunch‘s RRIDs: Common Citation Format Article in Nature,

Cell Press Cell Press is an all-science publisher of over 50 scientific journals across the life, physical, earth, and health sciences, both independently and in partnership with scientific societies. Many of Cell Press's journals are among the most reputab ...

eLife ''eLife'' is a not-for-profit, peer-reviewed, open access, scientific journal for the biomedical and life sciences. It was established at the end of 2012 by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Max Planck Society, and Wellcome Trust, following a w ...

FORCE11 FORCE11 is an international coalition of researchers, librarians, publishers and research funders working to reform or enhance the research publishing and communication system. Initiated in 2011 as a community of interest on scholarly communicatio ...

, Frontiers Media,

GigaScience ''GigaScience'' is a peer-reviewed scientific journal that was established in 2012. It covers research and large data-sets that result from work in the biomedical and life sciences. The editor-in-chief is Scott Edmunds. Originally, the journal was ...

MIRIAM Registry The MIRIAM Registry, a by-product of the MIRIAM Guidelines, is a database of namespaces and associated information that is used in the creation of uniform resource identifiers. It contains the set of community-approved namespaces for databases and ...

NIH The National Institutes of Health, commonly referred to as NIH (with each letter pronounced individually), is the primary agency of the United States government responsible for biomedical and public health research. It was founded in the late ...

, ''

PLOS Biology ''PLOS Biology'' is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering all aspects of biology. Publication began on October 13, 2003. It is the first journal published by the Public Library of Science. The editor-in-chief is Nonia Pariente. In a ...

'' and ''

PLOS Genetics ''PLOS Genetics'' is a peer-reviewed open access scientific journal established in 2005 and published by the Public Library of Science. The founding editor-in-chief was Wayne N. Frankel (Columbia University Medical Center). The current editors-in ...

''.

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full list of institutes and publishers

RRID Resolver

Know More About SciCrunch and RRIDs: An Interview with Dr. Anita Bandrowski
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Research Resource Identifiers

Format for RRID citations

Institutions and publishers recommending use of RRIDs

See also

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