Our Managing Director, Rebecca Lawrence, announces our first publication platform on behalf of a public funder – Ireland’s Health Research Board. She reflects on the leadership being shown by the funders we work with and how the growing number of publication platforms is beginning to open up wider discussions.
We interviewed Carolina Ramirez Santana, a researcher working on auto-immune diseases, and the Lab Co-ordinator of the Translational Medicine Research Group at Centro de Estudio de Enfermedades Autoimmunes, Colombia. She discusses open access, lack of funding, and explains the challenges to disseminate research on theinternational stage for researchers in Colombia.
Nazneen Rahman, Head of the Division of Genetics and Epidemiology at The Institute of Cancer Research and a member of the Advisory Board for Wellcome Open Research, shares her thoughts on open access and the value in sharing every piece of information.
Claire Turner and Kalipso Chalkidou from Global Health and Development Group introduce iDSI, the International Decision Support Initiative, a gateway to share technical knowledge of health economics and stakeholder management to help low and middle income countries transition towards more effective healthcare systems.
On Thursday 14th September, we gathered at the Francis Crick Institute to explore the meaning and impact of ‘Transparency in Peer Review’ – the theme of this year’s Peer Review Week. This was a thought-provoking session that raised many valuable points and identified the challenges that remain to be overcome for a fairer model or peer review. I will focus on one of the main arguments that arose.
We hope you found the first blog post stimulating, for it is now time for our second post of this series and delving deeper into the meaning and impact of transparency in peer review. Our Advisory Board members and staff here at F1000 consider training and credit for reviewers.
As the new academic year begins, here at F1000 our thoughts are focused on peer review and Peer Review Week 2017. During this week, we will delve into the meaning of this year’s theme ‘Transparency in Peer Review’, which is close to our hearts at F1000.
We announce our partnership with the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital to launch MNI Open Research. Our Managing Director, Rebecca Lawrence, discusses how this open research platform will support their journey to become an open science institute
The Director of the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital, Guy Rouleau, talks about how launching the publication platform MNI Open Research will support their plans of becoming an open science institute.
A summary about Sense about Science’s peer review workshop, which was held earlier this summer in London. The event started with some group work to get the discussion going and was then followed by a great panel discussion on the process of peer review in journal publishing.
