This week in open science news: Some interesting pieces to read, and a few ways you can be involved in open science via hack days, community calls, or surveys. Things to read: Science is often flawed. It’s time we embraced that. By Julia Belluz and Steven Hoffman on Vox Will traditional science journals disappear? By…
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 Portrayed emotions in the movie “Forrest Gump” [v1; ref status: indexed, https://f1000r.es/55o] Annika Labs, Theresa Reich, Helene Schulenburg, Manuel Boennen, Gehrke Mareike, Madleen Golz, Benita Hartigs, Nico Hoffmann,…
The Hague Declaration to improve knowledge creation in the digital age was launched in Brussels on Wednesday, and is now open for you to sign! The Open Source Malaria project needs some people to help add OSM numbers to compounds. If you want to help, all the info is on GitHub. Kim Holmberg uploaded some…
Gold Open Access, where funders or authors pay a one off article processing charge (APC), removes the need for the paywalls put in place by subscription journals, and so enables immediate and unrestricted access to research findings for everyone. Many Gold OA publishers charge a flat fee for all articles or stratify prices by article…
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 I drink for my liver, Doc: emerging evidence that coffee prevents cirrhosis [v1; ref status: indexed, https://f1000r.es/59o] Jordan J. Feld, Élise G. Lavoie, Fausther Michel, Jonathan A…
Earlier this week, the Advancing Research Communication & Scholarship conference took place in Philadelphia. Here, Paige Brown moderated a roundtable on Socializing Scholarly Communication, with Lou Woodley, Erin McKiernan and Ivan Oransky. On the BioMedCentral blog, Stephanie Harriman wrote a summary of another ARCScon panel, on Righting Peer Review. You can find more tweets/slides/thoughts from…
This week we are very excited to announce our first publishing partnership with a prestigious academic society. From July, the International Society of Computational Biology (ISCB) will have its own dedicated channel on F1000Research for the ISCB Community Journal. [See press release]. F1000 has always had a fruitful relationship with the computational biology community, and…
May not represent our actual mode of transportation. We regularly visit our users and other scientists in their institutes or at conferences. Since we have a lot of visits coming up, in five countries, it’s time again for an “F1000 tour” post, so you can find out exactly where we’ll be the coming weeks.…
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 Last week we published the first ever “living figure” that includes data from several labs, allowing researchers to collaborate on a publication. In this article by Colomb…
Yesterday and today the FOSTER-UNESCO Open Science for Doctoral Schools meeting took place in Paris. Attendees have been tweeting using the #OpenSci4Doc hashtag. Digital Science has been busy: Here’s a summary of their “Shaking It Up: Challenges and Solutions in Scholarly Information Management” event in San Francisco earlier this week, and an announcement of an…
