Sepsis breakthroughs: author interview with James Russell

The F1000 Faculty Reviews channel was officially launched last month, the articles being previously published on the F1000Prime Reports journal. One of the first articles to be published on the channel was by James Russell, a Professor of Medicine at the University of British Columbia and an F1000 Section Head in Critical Care & Emergency…

New on F1000Research – 29 June 2015

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 article Personal attributes of authors and reviewers, social bias and the outcomes of peer review: a case study [v2; ref status: indexed, https://f1000r.es/5gj] Richard Walker, Beatriz Barros, Ricardo…

Open Science News – 26 June 2015

Authorea released the workflow, data and working draft of an important Ebola article that was published recently in Cell. For outbreaks of infectious diseases such as Ebola it is especially critical that information is available to researchers and healthcare workers. (F1000Research has waived article processing charges on any submissions to the Ebola channel, which also…

New on F1000Research – 22 June 2015

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 article Design and conduct of Xtreme Everest 2: An observational cohort study of Sherpa and lowlander responses to graduated hypobaric hypoxia [v1; ref status: indexed, https://f1000r.es/57m] Edward Gilbert-Kawai,…

Open Science News – 19 June 2015

The CERN Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication is currently underway in Geneva. You can follow along on Twitter with the #OAI9 hashtag. Euroscientist interviewed Jan Velterop about the next steps towards open science. The Web will either kill science journals or save them, says Wired. We’re mentioned as one of the positive changes. As…

New on F1000Research – 15 June 2015

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 Article Short-term effect of acute and repeated urinary bladder inflammation on thigmotactic behaviour in the laboratory rat [v1; ref status: indexed, https://f1000r.es/56e] Rosemary H Morland, Amparo Novejarque, Wenlong…

Open Science News – 12 June 2015

Slides from the Open Repositories keynote on leveraging the web for science are now available. On Statistics Views, Joanna Carpenter talks about Reproducibility in science: uncovering truths Do you know cases where emergencies triggered openness in response, for example data sharing during disease outbreaks such as the recent Ebola crisis? Daniel Mietchen is collecting instances…

New on F1000Research – 8 June 2015

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 article Why are enteric ganglia so small? Role of differential adhesion of enteric neurons and enteric neural crest cells. [v1; ref status: indexed, https://f1000r.es/59q] Benjamin N. Rollo, Dongcheng…