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.
F1000Research will only offer the publication of academic posters and slides within gateways and collections as of December 2019.
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.
Wondering how to find peer reviewers that are experts in your field? Our peer review team offer 5 actionable tips to help you get started.
In this Q&A, Elizabeth Adams and Tanita Casci, University of Glasgow, discuss their recently published policy document on F1000Research, which summarises the outcome of an event that brought together around 60 researchers, funders, policy makers, research managers and representatives from the publishing industry to identify the practical actions that promote a positive research culture; that is, one in which good practice and collegiality are the norm.
In this blog post, Robert F. Terry, manager of Research Policy at TDR and Phaikyeong Cheah, coordinator of the Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit Data Access Committee and Amanda Blatch-Jones, Senior Research fellow at the NIHR, explore the importance of data sharing, the scepticism surrounding this practice and what needs to happen in order for it to become second nature.
Using open research to develop a high-quality network of laboratories to survey, control and eliminate neglected tropical diseases. Laura Dean and Imelda Bates, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, discuss their work on the first critical step to developing this important network and the benefit of open access for its accessibility and transparency.
How to get the credit you deserve? This week our Peer Review Experts take you though the several ways to claim credit for the work you put into your peer review report.
