The Sydney Conference on Scholarly Communication Beyond Paywalls took place this week, and you can find lots of tweets under the #sydconf15 hashtag, and a summary video on their YouTube channel. A new resource on opensource.com: What is open science? There are just a few weeks left to apply for the Mozilla Fellowship for Science.…
As you know, we’re one of the sponsors for Sense About Science’s “Nuts and Bolts” peer review workshops, aimed at graduate students. The next one is in Glasgow, on September 17. Information from Sense About Science on how to register is below, and you can read the experiences of a participant at a previous workshop…
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 Ever worked with an antibody that just doesn’t do what it promised to do? Or managed to get an antibody optimized to detect a mouse protein…
Earlier this year we published a pocket-sized research article describing the effect of capsaicin on vascular smooth muscle growth (and this post arguing in favour of short reports). Support for this idea is gaining pace as prominent neuroscientist Professor William Mobley, Chair of the Department of Neurosciences at the University of California San Diego has…
Today and tomorrow the Future of Research meeting is taking place in San Francisco. You can find a report from their first meeting in F1000Research. Ron Vale has written a great preprint about the need for preprints. “Our analysis suggests that publication practices have changed considerably in the life sciences over the past thirty years.…
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 F1000Research gateways are personalized portals for institutions or organizations that have multiple channels, with links to featured content and other resources. The International Society for Computational…
How can we use open science to make science more “public-friendly”? Matteo Cantiello has some suggestions. Svetlana Belkin launched the Open Undergrad Research Foundation (OpenURF), but is looking for someone to help her run it. See the OpenURF blog for details on what she needs help with. This is not new, but we found it…
As of this week, we have merged our repository of conference posters and slides, F1000Posters, into our open science publishing platform, F1000Research. We think that all scientific findings should be shared, regardless of perceived impact or format. It therefore makes much more sense to have all our content, whether it be articles, posters or slides,…
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 All Trials Matter is a channel dedicated to all clinical trials, providing a platform for researchers and clinicians to share all information on abandoned and current…
Greece has lost access to a large amount of academic journals, now that a main academic portal has closed due to lack of funding. This is the kind of thing that open science can prevent! Meanwhile, elsewhere in Europe, Dutch academics are standing up to Elsevier and are planning a boycott. The national association of…
