Small but mighty – using nanomaterials to provide communities with clean drinking water

Tiny technology with life-changing potential for communities. Nanotechnology researcher, Anita Etale, Global Climate Change Institute at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, is a FLAIR (Future Leaders – African Independent Research) funded recipient. She used her FLAIR funding to research the use of nanomaterials to produce clean water from the contaminated supply produced from mine draining.…

A day in the life of a Professor of Psychiatry

Carrie Bearden is a Professor of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at the University of California in Los Angeles. Her research interests include genetic and neurobiological risk factors for developmental neuropsychiatric disorders.

This year’s winners of the F1000Prime Awards

Our Faculty has worked tirelessly this year to continue to ensure that we never miss a notable article. Therefore, each year it’s fitting that we recognise their valuable work by way of two types of award, namely our AFM Travel Grant Awards and Faculty Member of the Year Awards.

COVID-19: Capturing the research that matters most

The Wuhan outbreak of COVID-19 is the most recent pandemic in a long list of animal-borne viruses that leave mounting death tolls and disruption in their wake. In recognition of this outbreak, we have made all recommendations on COVID-19 free to access on F1000Prime. The past weeks of media coverage on this outbreak has highlighted…

How Libraries and Funders Can Drive APC Transparency

In this blog, Ashley Farley, Associate Program Officer of Knowledge & Research Services at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, shares her experience working at a major research funder and highlights the importance of working together with libraries to ensure publishers are more transparent with their Article Processing Charges.