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Sets of guidelines for how studies should be conducted and reported abound in the life sciences, including ARRIVE, which addresses animal research; STRANGE, a newcomer that tackles animal behavior research specifically; and Cell Press’s STAR Methods. Such frameworks aim to increase the quality and transparency of research.
Last week, in a paper published in PNAS, a working group with members from eLife, Wiley, PLOS, the Center for Open Science, the University of Edinburgh, Nature Portfolio, Cell Press, and Science put forward a new framework that they say can be flexibly applied to a variety of types of life science research and reduce the burden on journals and authors relative to existing guidelines. For example, authors are asked to provide DOIs for preregistered study protocols or clinical trial registrations, if available; to provide full information on the types of cells or experimental animals used and where ...
