A problem shared… | Laboratory News

abernard102@gmail.com 2016-03-09

Summary:

"The availability of data is essential to scientific research, and is enabled by the commitment and good will of scientists. Life science research thrives on sharing reagents as well as information within the scientific community. This allows confidence in scientific findings to be built through reiterated independent validation of the data and expansion of existing knowledge. However, the difficulties of balancing cooperation and competitiveness and the limited resources to facilitate sharing have delayed the process considerably. In a promising change of paradigm, platforms to allow sharing of reagents has become increasingly popular and new repositories are continuously being made available across the life science community. Here we give an overview of the benefits of sharing reagents and provide examples of established sharing platforms, with the hope that by being aware of the several available resources, scientists will be encouraged to take part in consolidating a community with the common goal of facilitating research. For an inventor, sharing means making the most of years spent researching and developing reagents which are not always necessarily included in a publication. In fact, what is revealed of one’s research in a scientific journal or at a conference can be the result of years of work, hordes of students, and possibly dozens of abandoned research tools. In addition to this, the development of research tools is a lengthy and expensive process. To maximise the benefits arising from these tools and to finance further investigations, inventors are quite understandably exploring new avenues to maximise the collaborative and commercial value of their research tools. The benefits to inventors for sharing reagents they have developed are manifold ..."

Link:

http://www.labnews.co.uk/features/problem-shared-09-03-2016/

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Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » abernard102@gmail.com

Tags:

oa.new oa.comment oa.data oa.repositories.data oa.green oa.life_sciences oa.open_science oa.benefits oa.repositories

Date tagged:

03/09/2016, 17:10

Date published:

03/09/2016, 12:10