In this blog, Samantha Hollingworth, Francis Ruiz and Kalipso Chalkidou from the International Decision Support Initiative (iDSI), discuss the findings of their recently published Brief Report, which aims to rapidly assess current health system priorities and policy areas of demand for health technology assessment (HTA) in Sub-Saharan Africa, and identify key gaps in data and skills to inform targeted capacity building.
Vicky Hellon, Associate Publisher at F1000 Research Ltd introduces our latest call for papers by highlighting some of the best software tool articles on our open research publishing platform F1000Research. Discover how publishing one of these articles can help you get the credit you deserve and support reproducibility in research.
On Open Data Day on 7th March, the Early Career Researcher Advisory Board (ECRab) for Wellcome Open Research, a partner platform with F1000, joined the celebrations with the launch of our data sharing campaign. We want to grow a culture of data sharing by raising awareness, sharing information and developing discipline specific resources on data sharing to help all researchers shift to open science practices. In this blog, the ECRAB outline our plans and give a taste of things to come over the next year.
In February, UK Research and Innovation launched a consultation on its Open Access Review. You can view F1000 Research Ltd’s and Taylor and Francis’ responses here.
In this blog, Rebecca Lawrence discusses her view on the OSPP’s final report, which provides an update on progress towards Open Research across Europe and then proposes a vision for moving beyond Open Research to create a shared research knowledge system by 2030.
Rebecca Lawrence, Managing Director at F1000 Research Ltd, discusses how the University of Tsukuba are demonstrating leadership and innovation in not only embracing Open Research publishing practices but also by establishing our first partnership to offer a full bi-lingual publishing service.
Today, the University of Tsukuba has announced that it has signed a contract with F1000 Research Ltd to develop the first open research publishing gateway that will enable researchers to publish in either English or Japanese.
Data sharing and COVID-19– the pandemic is changing the way scientists work and talk to each other. Many are moving away from traditional means, choosing to share their work quickly and openly. In this blog, the Early Career Researchers advisory board at Wellcome Open Research discuss how COVID-19 is changing science.
Patricia Clarke, Programme Manager for Policy and EU funding, HRB, talks about the new Coronavirus collection the funding agency has created on their publishing platform, HRB Open Research, a partner platform with F1000. This provides a venue for rapid dissemination of the latest COVID-19 research, by HRB funded researchers and makes the information publicly available, so that the global research community can see what is being done and respond effectively.
Our response to the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) request for information about ‘public access to peer-reviewed scholarly publications, data and code resulting from federally funded research’.
