UC-wide pilot of protocols.io - Office of Scholarly Communication

"One of the serious barriers to reproducibility of research is the lack of detailed methods in published articles. As trainees leave a research lab, it is often impossible to identify precisely the steps of their performed experiments. As we look to tackle the various aspects of open access and open research, the University of California continues to explore how we can unlock the underlying methods and protocols used in lab experiments.

With this goal in mind, we are excited to announce a new pilot for UC-wide use of protocols.io — an open access repository for research methods. The pilot, which will run for a three-year period from June 1, 2019 through May 31, 2022, will remove all cost barriers and allow UC researchers to test the uses of protocols.io for private collaboration around method development and for use in classrooms. In the long term, this initiative should also increase the reproducibility and rigour of the research published by UC academics...."