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We are delighted to be expanding our partnership opportunities for research and academic institutions with our new Institutional Collections. Hannah Wilson, Associate Publisher at F1000Research, discusses community publishing and explains what these personalised portals offer for academic and research institutes.

We are delighted to expand our partnership opportunities for research and academic institutions, allowing organisations and their researchers to experience the benefits of the F1000Research publishing model. Launched this month, our new Institutional Collections offer personalised portals for academic and research institutes to showcase their research articles published on the platform. These collections serve to both increase visibility of content and demonstrate a commitment to open science and forward-thinking publishing practice.

Institutional Collections will form part of a new F1000Research programme of Institutional Membership Agreements, which allow institutions to directly pay publishing fees on behalf of authors. More than a pre-pay model, our Institutional Membership Agreements allow organisations to:

• Reduce administrative burden
• Promote open research
• Experience our rapid publication and open peer review model
• Provide their researchers with a platform that enables the publication of a far broader range of outputs compared with traditional journals, reducing research waste
• Benefit from bespoke, branded content portals showcasing their work
• Offer open access publishing that is compliant with funder mandates, including Plan S

The Max Planck Society, KU Leuven, University College London and The European Bioinformatics Institute are among our first partners already benefiting from these branded pages, and we have many more coming online shortly.

Why are these Institutional collection pages important?

F1000 was one of the original signatories of the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA) in 2013. In the intervening years, over 14,000 individuals and 1500 institutions have joined us in declaring their commitment to eliminating the use of journal-based metrics to evaluate research quality. Article-level metrics and the opportunity to publish articles that are sometimes seen as ‘low impact’, such as negative findings and replication studies, are at the core of F1000Research – there’s no subjective bias as to what can be published and what can’t.

As more institutes further their DORA commitment, these institutes are becoming increasingly keen to support initiatives that enable them to meet their commitment to the declaration – and that means supporting publishing models that focus on the intrinsic value of an article. Much has been written over the last 12 months about Plan S and its potential to shake up the world of scientific publishing. Here at F1000 we are strong supporters of Plan S and its mission to push towards universal adoption of open access. With immediate access to content prior to peer review, F1000Research is at the forefront of the drive towards openness in scientific publishing and entirely compliant with the proposed funder mandates resulting from Plan S.

As new approaches to publishing deals are being formed by academic libraries, it is important that they offer a range of choices for their researchers, who should be able to choose the right model for them.

About F1000Research

Since 2013, F1000Research has been removing barriers to the sharing of research findings. Using a post-publication open peer review model, we’ve combined the speed of pre-printing with the quality of invited peer review. With available article types including research articles, software tools, data notes, method articles and registered reports, researchers can gain credit for more of their research outputs. Technological advances such as our article versioning system, use of interactive figures and inception of living systematic reviews (to name a few) ensure that we stay ahead of the curve and provide the research community with new and innovative ways to disseminate work.

If you are interested to find out more, then please view our new Institutional Collections page or contact us at research@f1000.com.