As this week (21st-25th September) marks Peer Review Week, the Peer Review Team delve into the meaning of this year’s theme of ‘Trust in Peer Review’ and explore how our transparent peer review process is ideally suited to building trust.
We announce a new publishing partnership with the Israel Science Foundation (ISF) to launch a gateway supporting the implementation of the ISF’s upcoming open access policy. In this blog, Michael Markie, Publishing Director of F1000Research introduces the ISF Gateway and its first publications.
Today, the Israel Science Foundation (ISF) has announced that it has launched the ISF Gateway, an exciting new open access publishing avenue for ISF-funded beneficiaries.
For Sexual Health awareness week on 14th to 20th September, we discuss research on the variation in the prevalence of STIs by Chris Kenyon, University of Cape Town, South Africa, published on F1000Research, and how this could help in the prevention and management of STIs.
In this blog, Nerilee Ceatha, an alternate funded SPHeRE scholar with University College Dublin (UCD), discusses the teams’ Study Protocol, published by HRB Open Research, for a scoping review with the potential to inform research, policy and practice with relevance for LGBTI+ youth, their families, communities and the professionals who work with them.
Separating the facts from fiction – It is time to silence the myths and shine a light on the truth about data sharing. In this piece, we cover all angles on the forms and types that data exists as; show you that help is available and who you can turn to for information and guidance; and how data sharing actually establishes and confirms ownership of your data via authorship.
In our latest blog, Rebecca Lawrence, Managing Director, F1000 Research Ltd and Michael Markie, Publishing Director, F1000 Research Ltd, discuss the upcoming adjustments to the pricing structure on our publishing platform F1000Research and that of our partner platforms, in order to provide an equitable and more balanced approach to our APCs across all subject areas and to enable us to continue to better support all researchers, irrespective of their financial position.
Code Ocean compute capsules are the perfect match for Software Tool Articles on F1000Research. Embedded within the article itself, these widgets use cloud-based Docker technology to allow readers to run (and re-run) your code, right there in the body of the article. We spoke to Simon Adar, CEO of Code Ocean, about all things software, code, and reproducibility.
Dr Kiyuka uses virtual reality technology to engage and immerse secondary school students in science. In this blog, she discusses how a virtual tour of a laboratory, showing the researchers at work in different departments, could help students learn about science and increase their understanding of research. She hopes this will inspire young scholars to consider science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) careers.
As serious as the COVID-19 pandemic is, it could be an opportunity for science, says Benedikt Fecher.
