We are delighted to announce that we have just become an affiliate member of the UK Reproducibility Network (UKRN) Stakeholder Engagement Group. Michael Markie, Publishing Director at F1000, discusses how joining the stakeholder group helps us to improve our standards for reproducible research and the steps we’re taking to improve the robustness of the research we publish.
We are delighted to be expanding our partnership opportunities for research and academic institutions with our new Institutional Collections. Hannah Wilson, Associate Publisher at F1000Research, discusses community publishing and explains what these personalised portals offer for academic and research institutes.
We are relaunching our Chemical Information Science Gateway. In this blog Vicky Hellon, Associate Publisher at F1000 and Jürgen Bajorath, Chair of Life Science Informatics at the University of Bonn, discuss the relaunch of the CIS gateway on F1000Research.
Happy World Yoga Day! Today we discuss research published in F1000research which explores the impact of using mindfulness techniques during pregnancy. This article assesses the positive impacts mindfulness can have on both the physical and mental health of expectant mothers.
‘Ebola’s impact on health systems’ the new collection on the TDR gateway on F1000Research. Thomas Samba, Deputy Chief Medical Officer, Ministry of Health and Sanitation, Sierra Leone, tells us more about the reports, and how they could help with future outbreaks.
We invited Andrew Oxman, a member of the Informed Health Choices Group, to tell us more about a free online resource, called the Informed Health Choices Key Concepts and how it can help the public learn how to distinguish reliable information about the effects of health treatments from false claims.
Today is World Malaria Day, and so we wanted to touch on the history & recent developments of the disease, as well as discuss a recent publication in F1000Research which focuses on the treatment of Plasmodium falciparum malaria with chloroquine.
Researchers have created a 3D imaging system to analyse blood flow in limbs, which could be used to asses risk of diseases, such as cancer and arteriosclerosis (the clogging of the arteries). In this blog, we showcase the images that are produced from the scans and tell you more about the clinical applications.
Professor Anne Ridley FRS FMedSci, served as Chair the Academy of Medical Sciences’ 2016 Team Science report. Aligned with the launch of a two year follow-up meeting report, Professor Ridley reflects on the progress made so far and calls for more action to ensure that being part of a scientific team is beneficial to all.
Q&A with Daniel S. Katz, Lucy Montgomery, Olivia Guest on their views on open scholarship and how universities can take the best advantage of opportunities brought about by current changes in scholarship and society.
