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JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute 2004 96(22):1654-1655; doi:10.1093/jnci/96.22.1654
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NIH Clarifies New Model Organisms Sharing Policy

Sarah L. Zielinski

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The replication of results is one of the basic tenets of the scientific method. But if discoveries are made with unique model organisms or other materials that no one else can use, reproducibility becomes more difficult and expensive, if not impossible.

Although the National Institutes of Health has required recipients of its grants to share these unique resources, a new policy that went into effect October 1 requires researchers to include in grant applications specific plans for sharing model organisms and related materials.

Despite the fact that sharing is required by many funding agencies and journals, many researchers still refuse to share data and resources. For example, a survey of academic life scientists published in the . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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