HISTORY OF RESEARCH RESOURCE IDS

IDENTIFYING THE PROBLEM (2008-2013)

(2008) Neuroscience Information Framework, NIF, funded at the University of California at San Diego - NIF aggregates 150 databases (including some animal genomic data, reagent data)

(2009) NIF works on a text mining project for antibodies: in the Journal of Neuroscience: Results 1/2 of the antibodies cannot be identified, 90% lack catalog numbers

(2010) NIF meeting with Journal of Neuroscience full editorial board (at the Society for Neuroscience meeting) presenting the problem and results of text mining, editorial board agrees that this is a serious problem

(2010 or 2011) LAMHDI (grant awarded to the Turner group to build a genotype / phenotype matching tool that can inform institutional animal use committees about the “lowest” taxonomic model that expresses a gene) meeting(s) held at NIH and UCSD

(2011) White Paper from LAMHDI released

(2012) First editor and publisher meeting organized by NIF, NIDA and sponsored by INCF.org held at the Society for Neuroscience.  

THE PILOT PROJECT (2013-2015)

(2013) Second editor and publisher meeting organized by NIF, NIDA and sponsored by NIDA and INCF held at NIH -> Agreement on Pilot Project

(2013) Vasilevsky paper published on scope of problem

(2013) Third editor and publisher meeting organized by NIF and sponsored by Wiley held at the Society for Neuroscience -> Start date agreed upon

(2013) dkNET creates generalized NIF portal infrastructure, calls it SciCrunch

(2014) Launch of the Resource Identification Portal which aggregates ~20 data sources including the AntibodyRegistry.org, SciCrunch Registry and organism data from several model organism repositories

(2014) FORCE11 RRID Working Group launched

(2014) Pilot Project led by Journal of Neuroscience, Neuroinformatics, F1000, Brain and Behavior, and Journal of Comparative Neurology

(2015) Paper describing how RRIDs are used in the first 100 paper is co-published in 4 journals

ADOPTION INTO THE MAINSTREAM (2015-CURRENT)

(2015) Strong organic adoption by Journals (769 papers in 108 Journals)

(2016) STAR Methods proposed by Cell Press

(2016) Journals begin requiring incorporation of RRIDs 

(2016) SciBot developed for curation of RRIDs (funding via Helmsley award via collaboration with Hypothes.is and ORCID)

(2016) Addition of Cell Lines and partnership with Cellosaurus / ICLAC.org

(2016) Strong adoption continues (1626 papers in 191 journals)

(2017) Office of the Director hosts stock center directors to discuss RRIDs

(2017) RRIDs are linked by most publishers to the SciCrunch Resolver

(2017) Adoption accelerates (over 5200 papers in more than 380 journals)

(2019) JATS 1.2 (NISO standard for journal articles) adds support for RRIDs

(2019) SciScore released to limited journals to help identify where authors used RRIDs properly, or where RRIDs are needed

(2020) ASWG is formed, combining many AI-based manuscript screening tools to address the issue of quality in preprints

(2025) RRIDs.org becomes a not for profit organization