Research Resource Identification has made it into PLoS

Thanks to some great folks at PLoS, we will be adding the PLoS Genetics and Biology journals to our list of journals joining the RRID pilot.

For those of you who don't know about the initiative, NIF with the help of Force11, Monarch, MGI, RGD, and many other groups involved in some way with informatics launched an initiative to create a standard for research resource reporting. In this case the original agreement was among 25 journal chief editors who agreed to ask authors to report identifiers for: model organisms, antibodies, software tools and databases they used in the course of their research (methods section) in a format that is uniform across publishers.

The initiative has been very successful, thus far, with identifiers for resources appearing in over 40 journals (link to google scholar). Now, we will bring on board two journals in the PLoS family and we hope that others will soon follow.

See blog post at PLoS.