Elsevier and the Neuroscience Information Framework Work Together to Improve Reporting of Research in Neuroscience Literature

Elsevier and the NeuroscienceElsevier and the Neuroscience Information Framework Work Together to Improve Reporting of Research in Neuroscience Literature PR Newswire AMSTERDAM, November 7, 2013 Elsevier recommends authors to follow the Minimal Data Standards Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, announces its collaboration with the Neuroscience Information Framework (NIF), by incorporating the Minimal Data Standards across four of its neuroscience journals. Minimal Data Standards are a set of recommendations developed by NIF, the most comprehensive portal of available web-based resources in the field of neuroscience, to facilitate resource identification in published neuroscience articles. One of the big challenges that neuroscientists face today is that research findings reported in the literature often lack sufficient details to enable reproducibility of methodology or reuse of data. With the launch of the Minimal Data Standards, NIF aims to address this issue. Elsevier is one of the first scholarly publishers to adopt the Minimal Data Standards guidelines. Initially four Elsevier journals will take part in the pilot: Brain Research, Experimental Neurology, Journal of Neuroscience Methods, and Neurobiology of Disease.