Cross-posted from Naturally Selected. Written by Kinga Hosszu. Faculty of 1000 is excited to attend EB 2015 in Boston. We’ll be exhibiting in booth # 541 from March 29 –31st and we’d love to see you! If you’re attending the conference, come and say hi, learn what’s new at F1000, and score some F1000 and…
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 Referee Report Since our refereeing is open and transparent, we can feature some of the great comments we get. This is a quote from a referee report…
It was a busy week for Open Science, so these are just some of the highlights we came across. What drives academic data sharing? An article by researchers from Berlin concludes that “research policies that better incentivise data sharing are needed to improve the quality of research results and foster scientific progress” Henry Chesbrough, who…
Earlier this week I attended (and spoke at) a workshop about publication bias, organised by NC3Rs – the National Centre for the Replacement, Refinement & Reduction of Animals in Research. This group is interested in the publication bias issue because using animals in research adds an extra responsibility to publish all of the results of…
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 Strain-specific and pooled genome sequences for populations of Drosophila melanogaster from three continents. [v1; ref status: indexed, https://f1000r.es/515] Casey M. Bergman, Penelope R. Haddrill This data note…
Brief news from the world of open science: Tomorrow is International Open Data Day See if there are any events near you! A science BarCamp (unconference) in Hamburg on March 24 Great comprehensive list of open science events in Europe Average article processing charge (in GBP) paid by UK universities for open access articles(NB: ours…
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 Characterizing alpha helical properties of Ebola viral proteins as potential targets for inhibition of alpha-helix mediated protein-protein interactions [v3; ref status: indexed, https://f1000r.es/50u] Sandeep Chakraborty, Basuthkar J.…
A mixed bag of open science news in this week’s round-up. We’ve mentioned the Open Science Q&A proposal on Stack Exchange before. They now have 58% of the required number of committed users. Commitment is minimal: if you can answer just a few questions about open science, please sign up to help them reach their…
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 Capsaicin from chili (Capsicum spp.) inhibits vascular smooth muscle cell proliferation [v1; ref status: indexed, https://f1000r.es/4yk] Rongxia Liu, Elke H. Heiss, Dean Guo, Verena M. Dirsch, Atanas…
New tools and resources: Tool from SPARC Europe to test how open your institute’s research is A proposed Q&A for scientists interested in open science. It still needs about a hundred people to commit. The Open Glossary contains lots of useful terms related to open science. New paper and recommendations from the Open Science Initiative.…
