Technology is being incorporated more and more into our daily lives. Social media platforms allow researchers to easily connect with one another and to simply find citations or resources. Guest blogger, Sarah Kearns, a PhD student at University of Michigan, gives her views on knowledge networking, and explains how it can help researchers compile and share information, as well as to find their way through the mounds of data and resources in order for these conclusions to be made.
We have launched Open Research Central, a new portal through which research in any field can be submitted for formal publication on one of the open research publishing platforms that we provide for funders and institutes. Through Open Research, we will grow a publishing model that truly focuses on serving the needs of authors and their research communities.
Liz Allen recently participated in a workshop hosted by the University of Kent Business School – the subject was whether metrics or peer review are the best tools to support research assessment. In this post, she looks into what peer review actually tells us and how we use expert opinion.
It seems not so long ago that we announced that we would be launching Gates Open Research, and hot on its heels is the latest addition to the family – UCL Child Health Open Research. We are delighted that UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, the largest centre of child health research in Europe, have taken this big step in becoming the first institute to launch their own publication platform.
Rebecca Lawrence, our Managing Director, discusses the vital role that research institutions can play, together with research funders, in supporting their researchers in improving the way that the findings of their work are communicated and helping to reduce research waste.
Rosalind Smyth, Director of UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, and Martin Elliott, UCL Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery talk about the launch of the launch of the new publication platform UCL Child Health Open Research. It will be the first institute-focused publishing platform and allow any UCL Great Ormond Street ICH or other UCL researcher studying child health to publish with greater speed and transparency.
We hear from Phil Ward, Deputy Director of Research Services at the University of Kent, about how research quality is assessed in the UK including some of the problems with this and what alternatives there are to the norm
Corina Logan, University of Cambridge, recently published an Opinion Article about publishing choices that face researchers when decided how to disseminate their work. The article underwent open post-publication peer review and was also highlighted through our literature recommendation service F1000Prime. Clint Perry, Queen Mary University of London, is an Associate Faculty Member for F1000Prime and co-author of the recommendation. In this post, Corina and Clint discuss some of the points raised in Corina’s article about the peer review, open access and what changes are needed to ensure that publishers better serve the scientific community.
This in the first post from our new guest blogger Sarah Kearns, a PhD student at University of Michigan, where she gives her views on collaboration. She discusses what’s needed to create a collaborative environment and what barriers currently exist
Have a ten minute incubation period? Treat yourself to a short break and catch up with all that’s been happening in the world of Open Science!
Collaborations can be a vital means to tackle complex scientific problems and global challenges. Although there can be benefits for research, it might not always be the best approach to take. Liz Allen discusses how to recognise the value of collaborations and the importance of understanding when and how to forge, sustain and nurture them.
