Last year, open science developer-advocate Jure Triglav wrote a post on how scientific figures should work in 2014. Jure went beyond encouraging the use of scientific figures that update in real-time, he created one on his blog; a neat graph that auto-plots the number of sun-mentioning tweets in the Bay Area against actual cloud coverage…
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 Long read nanopore sequencing for detection of HLA and CYP2D6 variants and haplotypes [v1; ref status: indexed, https://f1000r.es/4zj] Ron Ammar, Tara A. Paton, Dax Torti, Adam Shlien,…
The biggest open science news this week was the announcement that the World Health Organisation is asking for clinical trial data to be made publicly available. Many lives could have been saved if crucial Ebola research had not been behind a paywall, reports TechDirt. Lack of available data could have prevented several cases of research…
After a particularly cold and brutal winter, this past 26th March, F1000 invited local life scientists and clinicians to Cambridge’s (MA) FIRE + ICE for an evening of networking and talking publishing and science We kicked off the event with a short presentation on the new F1000 Workspace, followed by a second presentation on F1000Research’s…
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 The culture of scientific research [v1; ref status: indexed, https://f1000r.es/53j] Catherine Joynson, Ottoline Leyser “In 2014, the UK-based Nuffield Council on Bioethics carried out a series of…
Are you in New York City? There’s an Open Science meetup next week. Last week’s webinar about getting tenure with open science, with Titus Brown, is now viewable on YouTube. The US Government has released datasets to help study the health impacts of climate change. Erin McKiernan has collected examples of collaborations resulting from open…
Back in November 2014, BioMed Central discovered about 50 manuscripts in their editorial system that involved fake peer reviewers. Following a detailed investigation, they have now started the process of retracting 43 papers that had been published on the basis of reviews from made-up reviewers. Some of these papers were from the original 50 but…
Below is a selection of newly indexed and published articles on F1000Research. To receive notification of all new articles, sign up for our table of contents alerts New channel: Our newest channel is on Oxygen-binding and sensing proteins, with guest editor Robert Poole. It includes a snapshot of the work presented at a meeting on…
A day early this week because of the bank holiday tomorrow, but there was still plenty of news from the open science community. This Friday (April 3) you can tune in to a webinar on “Gaining Tenure as an Open Scientist”, hosted by OpenCon with Titus Brown as guest. One of the fears people often…
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 Interpretation of mRNA splicing mutations in genetic disease: review of the literature and guidelines for information-theoretical analysis [v2; ref status: indexed, https://f1000r.es/54y] Natasha G. Caminsky, Eliseos J.…
