STM publisher Elsevier and the US National Cancer Institute (NCI) have implemented two-way linking between research articles on ScienceDirect and datasets stored in NCI's cancer Nanotechnology Laboratory (caNanoLab) data portal. The NCI is part of the US National Institutes of Health (NIH).
caNanoLab provides facilities for the submission and retrieval of information on well-characterised nanomaterials, including composition, physico-chemical and in vitro/in vivo characterizations, and protocols. This resource, developed by NCI, is designed to support information sharing across the international biomedical nanotechnology research community to expedite and validate the use of nanotechnology in biomedicine. As such, caNanoLab provides publically accessible cancer nanotechnology data and enables the sharing of non-public data between established collaboration groups.
Reciprocal linking between data portals and scientific literature ensures that the core research output - research data - is easy to find and can be reused by other researchers who want to build upon previous work. Scientific and biomedical research datasets stored in the caNanoLab data portal are currently accessible through research articles from ten Elsevier journals available on ScienceDirect and vice versa - the research articles can also be accessed from the datasets in caNanoLab.
Reciprocal linking between articles and data is one of Elsevier's initiatives for sharing research data. Elsevier collaborates with more than forty data repositories, and is continually looking to collaborate with other relevant organisations.
The ten Elsevier journals with reciprocal caNanoLab-ScienceDirect linking are: Biomaterials, Cancer Letters, European Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences, International Journal of Pharmaceutics, Journal of Controlled Release, Materials Science and Engineering: C, Nanomedicine, Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology, Toxicology Letters, Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology (with more journals to come soon).
