RRIDs have been adopted into the JATS standard for journal articles

RRIDs are now part of the Journal Article Tagging Suite, JATS 1.2.

Please see:

https://jats.nlm.nih.gov/publishing/tag-library/1.2/element/resource-id.html

Retraction Watch echoes concerns about cell lines highlighted in eLife

https://retractionwatch.com/2019/01/30/can-a-nudge-stop-researchers-from-using-the-wrong-cell-lines/

A note about RRIDs and Cell lines from Science

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-01/e-rri012919.php

EU report on PID (Persistant IDentifier) infrastructure discusses RRIDs

https://www.project-freya.eu/en/deliverables/freya_d3-1.pdf

Retraction Watch story on an RRID inspired correction

This is a post in Retraction Watch about a very unusual correction to a paper, complete with an RRID.

https://retractionwatch.com/2018/10/18/how-a-typo-in-a-catalog-number-led-to-the-correction-of-a-scientific-paper-and-what-we-can-learn-from-that/

Nature Supports RRIDs

On Oct 15th, 2018, Nature changed it's materials identification policy to include the Research Resource Identifier, RRID. This is an important step towards both transparency and materials tracking. Thank you Nature Publishing Group.

https://www.nature.com/authors/policies/availability.html

RRID Newsletter link

Brown University Resources for Rigor & Transparency - RRID's

http://libguides.brown.edu/reproducibility/IDs

Publish all new techniques in BioTechniques, with RRID's

Publish all new techniques in BioTechniques, with RRIDs