Can open science help with public engagement of science? “Mapping the hinterland: Data issues in open science“, an article in Public Understanding of Science, explores this question. Nature Communications will start publishing the peer review histories of articles from January onward, unless the authors opt-out. In response to the above news, Leonid Schneider blogged about…
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 ELIXIR is the European life-science infrastructure for biological data. It brings together Europe’s major life-science data archives and, for the first time, connects these with national bioinformatics…
The open research value proposition: How sharing can help researchers succeed. This working paper by Erin McKiernan et al. is welcoming your feedback. Five selfish reasons to work reproducibly. Article in Genome Biology by Florian Markowetz. (“And so, my fellow scientists: ask not what you can do for reproducibility; ask what reproducibility can do for…
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 NetBio Special interest Group (NetBio SIG) channel hosts posters and slides from NetBio SIG meetings that cover new developments in network biology, focusing on two major…
The Peer Reviewers’ Openness Initiative asks reviewers to consider whether the paper they are reviewing is sufficiently open, and refuse to review articles that won’t allow access to underlying data. Darren Boehning didn’t get funding for a BRCA1 research project, so he put the proposal on his blog ready for anyone else to pick up…
This week the World Health Organisation (WHO) released the most comprehensive report to date on the state of foodborne illness worldwide; one of the key papers presenting the data and results that contributed to the report has just been published in F1000Research. The WHO report, titled ‘Estimates of the Global Burden of Foodborne Diseases’, presents…
Harriet Dashnow is a Bioinformatician and PhD candidate at Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Royal Children’s Hospital, in Melbourne. She has several posters on F1000Research, and we asked her about her experiences with sharing posters, and about her work. Why do you share your posters on F1000research? I upload my posters because I want to increase…
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 Don’t forget that you can submit antibody validations for free throughout 2015! If you’re working with antibodies, you can publish the results of the tests you did…
A team of biohackers is developing the first open source protocol to produce insulin simply and economically. They’re crowdfunding on experiment, with 7 days left! Open science versus commercialization: a modern research conflict? All the talks from OpenCon are now on YouTube. Most of the OpenCon satellite events have now taken place, but Berlin’s is…
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 new Critical Care channel offers a platform for publishing research and debate across the broad field of acute care and emergency medicine. In addition, the channel…
