This week’s open science news includes a lot of great reading material, so grab a hot drink of choice and start your weekend with some articles and blog posts. “We have arrived at the juncture where medicine and science need new vehicles for the dissemination of knowledge” writes Harlan Krumholz in an editorial called The…
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 Technologies such as Docker are now establishing themselves as a lightweight solution to packaging applications together with their dependencies, solving a range of problems from reproducible research…
OpenCon is almost upon us! If you’re not attending the main event in Brussels, check the site for a local event near you, or watch the livestream this weekend. You can find some of us at the London satellite event next week! Mendeley launched Mendeley Data, a new place where you can share your research…
Another guest post by Fiona Murphy about the previously mentioned project to give researchers credit for their data. Over the past few weeks, our project, ‘Giving Researchers Credit for their Data’ has continued to take shape. We held a meeting with key partners (Elsevier and ORCID) at the Jisc Headquarters and came away with some…
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 gateway University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG) is one of the largest hospitals in the Netherlands, and they have a gateway on F1000Research to showcase their research output. Research…
The entire editorial board of a top linguistics journal quits in protest of Elsevier policies, and is starting a new open access journal. This weekend, keep an eye on the #MozOpenSci tag on Twitter. It’s the hashtag for the Open Science Track of the annual Mozilla Festival. The week after that is OpenCon, which will…
We have a flurry of announcements of interest to all scientists who create or use academic software as part of their research activities (so basically everyone): We recently strengthened our stance on software availability to better align with our Open Science principles. Now, the source code underlying any newly presented software must be made publically…
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 RPackage channel brings together all of the F1000Research articles describing new R packages that are applicable to the life sciences. R is the statistical language +…
The schedule for the open science track of the Mozilla Festival is up. The festival will take place on November 6-8 in London, and tickets are still available (and give you access to all the other tracks as well, just in case three parallel streams of open science aren’t enough). Later in November, the 7th…
This is a guest post by Fiona Murphy, Project Manager for Giving Researchers Credit for their Data. “Researchers have too much to do, and too much of their work goes unrecognised. Tools like this will help to take the friction out of their daily lives and help them to share, improve and get credit for…
