This week was the inaugural Peer Review Week, with tweets under the #PeerRevwk15. F1000Research published our own compilation of useful peer review blogs here. A new study published by BMJ Open showed that open peer review is superior to a closed model Researchers shared their open science stories on the Winnower, for example, “How becoming…
This week F1000Research joins ORCID, ScienceOpen, Wiley, and the wider scientific community in a new initiative aimed at showcasing peer review: Peer Review Week! This virtual event highlights the fundamental importance of peer review in science and promotes the many different forms it can take across the scientific spectra. At F1000Research we’re proudly celebrating 3 years of…
Jason McDermott was one of the first people to publish online on F1000Research preliminary research methodology and data to gain peer reviews in the hope it would strengthen his R01 grant application (read about it here). Here he writes of his experience and how it went down with the grant reviewers. McDermott is a senior…
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 Bioconductor is an open-source, open-development software project for the analysis and comprehension of high-throughput data in biology. Its aim is to enable interdisciplinary research through collaborative and…
In a New York Times article published last week, doctors advocate for more open science in order to more rapidly communicate lifesaving treatments. Open Knowledge Finland Open Science Working Group held a workshop on Thursday 24th entitled “Beyond Open Access: The changing culture of producing and disseminating scientific knowledge,” which is summed up in this…
Today we are very excited to publish The ICR1000 UK exome series: a resource of gene variation in an outbred population a research article from Nazneen Rahman’s Lab at the Institute of Cancer Research, UK. The dataset described in the paper includes exome sequence data from 1,000 individuals of the general UK population where 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 If you’re using antibodies in your research, you can publish the validation of your antibodies for free in the Antibody Validation channel . This channel, which has…
Earlier this week, the 7th Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing (COASP) was held in Amsterdam. You can find conversations from the meeting on Twitter, under the #COASP hashtag. “It’s OK to be wrong in public“, and other advice for implementing an open science workflow with Software Carpentry. You’ve heard about Green and Gold, but…
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 Participants from last week’s Genome Science: Biology, Applications and Technology conference (held in Birmingham from September 7-9) have been uploading posters and slides of their meeting to…
Content from the former Open Science Stack Exchange has been moved to two locations where they might see more interaction. Old entries are now part of the Academia Stack Exchange (such as this question) as well as a new platform launched by Christian Pietsch. Stephen Curry shares his thoughts on peer review and preprints on…
