OpenCon 2015 applications are open! The conference will take place November 14-16 in Brussels. If you’re a student or early career academics, apply for a spot at the meeting. If you’re in or near London, drop by London Open Drinks on June 10, 6PM, at The Fellow in King’s Cross. Meet publishers and others working…
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 Behavioural evidence for self-medication in bumblebees? [v2; ref status: indexed, https://f1000r.es/5ep] David Baracchi, Mark J. F. Brown, Lars Chittka Bumblebees infected with a parasite have a…
Neil Chue Hong crowdsourced a long list of all the journals in which you can publish software. Green or Gold? On their blogs, open access champions Michael Eisen and Mike Taylor debate what the future will look like. The inevitable failure of parasitic green open access, by Michael Eisen, and the response by Mike Taylor,…
Behind everything at Faculty of 1000 (F1000) is the F1000 Faculty, comprising over 6,600 world-leading experts across more than 40 disciplines in the life sciences and medicine. The Faculty includes 10 Nobel Laureates, 16 Lasker Award winners, over 150 members of the National Academy of Sciences, and many others who have received prestigious awards for…
In January we celebrated the second anniversary of our launch. To mark the occasion, we looked backed on what we had achieved in the years since our launch, and gathered some stats in an infographic. As we continue to grow and develop our innovative publishing and peer review model, we thought we’d take a look…
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 A reanalysis of mouse ENCODE comparative gene expression data [v1; ref status: approved with reservations 1, https://f1000r.es/5ez] Yoav Gilad, Orna Mizrahi-Man In this article, which initiated as…
When will “open science” become simply “science”? By Mick Watson in Genome Biology. Slides for a short course called “Open Science goes Geo”, which was presented at the European Geosciences Union General Assembly earlier this year, are available on Zenodo in three parts: Part I: Research Data, Part II: Scientific Software, Part III: Beyond Data…
This is a call for researchers working on pain behaviours in rodents to publish an independent re- analysis of the blinded data in Morland et al. (2015) and to update their article following an unblinded analysis. One of the best safeguards against experimenter bias muddying results is to make sure the researcher doesn’t know which…
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 Adherence to Artemisinin Combination Therapy for the treatment of uncomplicated malaria in the Democratic Republic of the Congo [v2; ref status: indexed, https://f1000r.es/596] M. Ruby Siddiqui,…
By Laure Haak (Executive Director, ORCID) and Rebecca Lawrence (Managing Director, F1000 Research Ltd); cross-posted on the ORCID blog. Peer review is an essential component of the research and scholarly lifecycle. And yet, researcher peer review activities are rarely acknowledged as a fundamental contribution to research. At the same time, the need to encourage more…
