I recently attended the EU Presidency Conference on Open Science in Amsterdam. Refreshingly (and speedily), on the day after the conference, a draft Call for Action was issued. The challenge is for the various working groups being convened by the EC to turn the Call into action.
This is a guest post by Dr Mehwaesh Islam, Policy Officer at the Academy of Medical Sciences, London, UK.
We’re pleased to announce that Bev Acreman has been appointed Commercial Director of F1000. Bev, who will take up the post at the beginning of April, was formerly Vice President of Marketing & Sales, Open Research, at Springer Nature – a global research, educational and professional publisher. At Springer Nature, part of Bev’s role included…
Our latest #F1000talks tweetchat discussed how social media can benefit biomedical scientists and their industry. This post features a Storify authored by F1000 Specialist Kirsten Lee, which summed up what was discussed during our chat.
“Talk to your librarian.” It’s remarkable how often I have to use this sentence, considering I don’t work with books, don’t work in academia anymore, and rarely set foot in a library myself. But whenever I visit universities to talk about the work that F1000 does (from F1000Prime article recommendations to the open science platform…
Last week, F1000Research’s managing director, Rebecca Lawrence, attended a meeting with the Nuffield Council on Bioethics to discuss the culture of science research and the drivers behind it. Rebecca represented science publishers, alongside Dame Nancy Rothwell (President and Vice-Chancellor, Uni of Manchester) who represented UK research institutions, and Steven Hill (Head of Research Policy, Higher…
Beat Ebola with better research sharing, says the discoverer of virus.
We are looking forward to the BioConference Live Genetics and Genomics virtual event on August 20th and 21st. Our booth will be open around the clock, but if you drop by between 11-12PM or 2-3PM EST, our resident scientists will be in attendance to answer your questions. Come learn about how F1000 can help you…
Our latest #F1000talks live chat discussed how patient advocates find scientific information and expert advice. We had a great turnout of patients, patient advocates, research scientists and clinicians, and we were delighted to hear their ideas and questions. We have summed up the discussion with a Storify. We hope you enjoy our monthly tweet chats,…
Earlier this week, Wiley announced that they have partnered with Altmetric to provide article-level metrics across all 1500+ Wiley journals. Now, any article published in a Wiley journal will have an Altmetric score (online) in order to help the reader paint a fuller picture of the impact of individual papers. An Altmetric score is a…
