Peer review can be a confusing process at times, so to help cut out all the jargon and make it as simple as possible, we have developed the ‘Peer Review Experts’ blog series. This week, Yousuf Al-Mousawi, Senior Editorial Assistant at F1000Research, gives us a potted history of peer review and our place within it.
Leading specialist academic publisher Taylor & Francis Group, part of Informa plc, has today announced the addition of cutting-edge open research publisher F1000 Research Ltd.
As this year draws to a close, the team here at F1000Research are feeling very reflective and so Jeniffer and Charlie, Senior Editorial Assistants, have looked back over some notable reviews and important updates.
In this blog, we discuss a paper recommended by the F1000Prime Faculty and published in Functional Ecology, where the authors discuss the idea that social interaction may not just increase the length of an individual’s life, but also impact the evolutionary success of an entire species.
A living systematic review can help us to refine our understanding of the epidemiology of Zika virus. In this Q&A, Michel Counotte and Nicola Low, University Bern, Switzerland, talk about their living systematic review, the first of its kind to publish on F1000Research, and explain how it can help researchers handle the immense literature on the virus.
Status updates for research – Michel Counotte and Nicola Low, University Bern, Switzerland, and their group of researchers are the first to publish a living systematic review on F1000Research. They explain why they upgraded from a ‘classic’ to this novel article type and why it is a great step for researchers helping them to keep up to date with the latest evidence on Zika.
Peer review can be a confusing process at times and so to help cut out all the jargon and make it as simple as possible, we have developed the ‘Peer Review Experts’ blog series. This week Jeniffer Jeyakumar, Senior Editorial Assistant at F1000Research explains the process of re-reviewing.
In this blog, Anneliese Taylor, Head of Scholarly Communication, at the University of California San Francisco Library, shares the key tactics that the University of California system has developed and deployed to promote Open Access publishing within the system.
Easing you into data sharing – a set of proposed criteria could help simplify the process of finding a suitable data repository for your data and reduce the complexity when publishing.
Patrice Forget is our Faculty Member of the Month. He is a Clinical Chair in Anaesthesia and a Professor at the University of Aberdeen. Over the past 10 years, he has published more than 100 articles, letters and editorials. In this blog, he gives us an insight into a day in his life and what he likes about being a member of the F1000Prime Faculty.
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