Today is World Hepatitis Day. This year sees the first ever World Health Organization’s Global Strategy for Viral Hepatitis, which sets a goal of eliminating viral hepatitis as a public health threat by 2030. In light of this, we spoke to Leena Menghaney and Jessica Burry of the MSF Access Campaign about the barriers to…
Following recent discussion and comments on the F1000Research publication criteria, we want to explain our reasoning for why we have developed them. We want to engage the scientific community in discussing these criteria and hear of alternative suggestions. Introduction Research articles published in traditional journals go through an opaque and often secretive process of selection…
Since the Bioconductor project began 15 years ago, it has grown into vast source of indispensable analytical tools for researchers working with high-throughput genomic data. Their open source, open development philosophy naturally aligns with our open science publishing model, and so we were thrilled to collaborate with Bioconductor to launch its own channel a year ago this month.
Publication of research takes months going through peer review before it sees the light of day. And only a tiny proportion of the work that goes into any project is ever made visible and published, as traditional journals are selective and only accept new or novel findings. Too much work is shut away in notebooks, in drawers…
Almost 300 years after Laura Maria Caterina Bassi became the first woman to earn a professorship at a university in Europe, women still comprise less than one fifth of professors across that continent. In an opinion article published this month on F1000Research, Lynn Kamerlin, who runs a lab in the cell and molecular biology department…
This is a guest post by Fiona Murphy, Project Manager for the Giving Researchers Credit for their Data project. It has been a few months since our last update, but we haven’t been idle. Once we learned we had been funded for a further phase to develop our helper app that supports publication of data…
This September the INCF’s annual congress Neuroinformatics 2016 comes to Reading, UK, so we will be hopping on the Great Western Railway from Paddington to be there. If you are attending, please swing by our exhibit to say hello and/or pick up some free stuff! If you haven’t registered yet, the early bird fee for…
Each month we review our poster and slide submissions and feature one as our ‘poster/slide of the month’. We were spoiled for choice in May, but decided on “Approach motivation in depression: a combined ESM and fMRI approach” to tie in with Mental Health Awareness Week, which took place during the month. This poster was presented at…
On 20 and 21 May we had the pleasure to attend the UK Médecins Sans Frontières Scientific Day 2016, the annual MSF conference showcasing medical and innovation research in humanitarian medicine. On the first day, a number of excellent field researchers updated us on recent work carried out in different MSF locations. Among the speakers,…
Recently, we published a slide set that was presented during the International Zika Summit held at the Institut Pasteur, Paris on April 25-26 2016 which explores collaborative data sharing in outbreak situations. We reached out to the authors and are delighted to have them write a guest post for us to discuss a possible way…
