Protocols.io Tools for PLOS Authors: Reproducibility and Recognition

PLOS, leading Open Access publisher, now partners directly with protocols.io to provide authors better ways to share methodological details about their work, together with persistent, citable identifiers for laboratory methods and practical tools to reduce wasted research efforts. For PLOS, this is a step forward on commitments to address reproducibility and provide improved recognition and credit for all contributions to a work and complements the organization’s already robust data availability policy, requiring that data underlying the conclusions of an article be made available at the time of publication. “We are excited to engage with protocols.io,” says PLOS Executive Editor Veronique Kiermer. “This is another step towards Open Science, facilitating access not only to the data but now also to the laboratory methodology that generated these data.” Researchers are encouraged to deposit their laboratory protocols on the protocols.io site, obtain a unique DOI and link directly to these from the Methods section of their articles. The unique link allows reviewers and editors access to the protocols during peer review. At the time of publication, the partnership between PLOS and protocols.io ensures that links to and from the published article are established and protocols are automatically made publicly available under a CC BY license for anyone to access, use and cite. “We are delighted to be associated with a like-minded partner such as PLOS,” says protocols.io...
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