This is a cross-post from our Naturally Selected blog. It’s award season again! And that means it’s time to announce the F1000 Specialist of the Year 2015. Last year was extremely busy for many F1000 Specialists, which made the decision even harder than in 2014. After a long round of deliberations, we’re pleased to highlight…
Fourteen medical journals have proposed expansive new data-sharing requirements for authors writing about clinical experiments. Voice your opinions here. The Wellcome Trust, the National Institutes of Health and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute have banded together to “unleash the power of open content and data to advance biomedical research!” Submit your proposal here and check out this…
The Peer Reviewers’ Openness Initiative, which lets reviewers sign a pledge to only review articles that are published according to open science standards, was mentioned in Times Higher Education. “Dutch EU presidency aims at open access to scientific journals“. The Netherlands have been ahead of the curve in terms of pushing for open access publishing,…
F1000Research is one of the partners of Sense About Science’s “Nuts and Bolts” peer review workshops. Below is a report from the most recent workshop, written by Adam Field. Adam graduated from Newcastle University in Biomedical Sciences in 2013, before working at AstraZeneca for two years in Oncology. He recently joined Prof Peter Adams group at…
We are excited to announce that two of Europe’s bioinformatics titans have launched their own Open Science publishing channels on the F1000Research platform. The European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), an internationally renowned research center that is home to several key ‘big data’ repositories and Europe PMC, launched their Channel today. Its current aim is to collate…
A selection of new content on F1000Research from the past week. To receive notification of all new articles, sign up for our table of contents alerts. Featured channel The Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer (SITC) is a not-for-profit organization of medical professionals dedicated to improving patient outcomes by advancing the development, science and application of…
An article in PLOS Biology, and discussed on The Scientist, revealed that, of a random sample of over 400 articles in the biomedical literature, none provided access to all the data! The article is part of a new PLOS Collection on Meta-Research. But why share? Is open science the way forward? Daniel P. Newman asks…
If you follow us on Twitter you’ll have seen our account unseasonably active over the holiday period, as we tweeted our favourite articles, posters, slides, channels and referee reports of the past year. It was a busy year for us, where we merged with F1000Posters, started publishing F1000 Faculty Reviews (formerly F1000Prime Reports), launched many…
A selection of new content on F1000Research from the past week. To receive notification of all new articles, sign up for our table of contents alerts. Featured channel The International Symposium on Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis/ Motor Neurone Disease (ALS/MND) is the largest medical and scientific conference specific to MND. It is the premier event in…
A selection of new content on F1000Research from the past week. To receive notification of all new articles, sign up for our table of contents alerts. Featured channel The Desert Fishes Council is a nonprofit organization of scientists, managers, and citizens dedicated to preserving the biological integrity of desert aquatic ecosystems and their associated biota.…
