resource sharing

Despite increasingly strict journal policies requiring the release of computational code files along with research papers, many scientists remain reluctant to share—underscoring the need for better solutions.

Some researchers have decided to provide their products without financial compensation or expectations of authorship on resulting papers, prompting a flurry of new work.

A large coalition of colleges and universities aims to change hiring, promotion, and tenure practices to reward collaboration.

The academic networking service ResearchGate was infringing on copyrights held by scientific publishers when it hosted manuscripts from their journals, the European court said, but the website will not have to pay damages.

The World Health Organization–led program will promote equity in addition to facilitating access to samples, a WHO official involved in the project tells The Scientist.

A volunteer-run database called StudySwap, which launched in beta last month, is starting to gain momentum.  

Sharing leftover samples from preclinical experiments is one way biomedical researchers can make the most of animal models.

A round-up of recent discoveries in behavior research

Biological resource centers are bigger and better than ever before, storing and distributing shared reagents, plasmids, and more.