New on F1000Research – 15 December 2014

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 Using Twitter to investigate opinions about multiple sclerosis treatments: a descriptive, exploratory study [v1; ref status: indexed, https://f1000r.es/4bu] Sreeram Ramagopalan, Radek Wasiak, Andrew P. Cox “We present here, to…

Open Science News – 12 December 2014

This week every single item in our round-up is something that YOU can participate in. If you’re in North America or in the Northern part of South America (check the map) you can help out the Audubon Bird Count by counting birds near you between December 14 and January 5. Find out how to join…

New on F1000Research – 8 December 2014

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 common feature pharmacophore for FDA-approved drugs inhibiting the Ebola virus [v1; ref status: indexed, https://f1000r.es/4qh] Sean Ekins, Joel S. Freundlich, Megan Coffee “We propose that these drugs identified to…

Nominate antibody companies for the CiteAb Awards

Are you happy with the commercial antibodies you’re using? If you are, you can now nominate your favourite antibody company in the “Researcher’s Choice” category of the first annual CiteAb Antibody Awards. CiteAb is partnering with F1000Research to launch the awards, which aim to celebrate the very best suppliers, reagents and individuals in the research…

New on F1000Research – 1 December 2014

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.   Articles welcoming your feedback As you know, you can always comment on any article in F1000Research, but there are two recent articles that should be of broad interest to many researchers,…

Open Science News – 28 November 2014

It’s been a busy few weeks, so we missed a few roundups of open science news, but it was so busy because there was a LOT going on in the open science world! Here is a very brief summary of just the key news of the past weeks: funding news and meeting summaries. Better funder…

New on F1000Research – 24 November 2014

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 Late cardiac sodium current can be assessed using automated patch-clamp [v1; ref status: indexed, https://f1000r.es/4kj] Morgan Chevalier, Bogdan Amuzescu, Vaibhavkumar Gawali, Hannes Todt, Thomas Knott, Olaf Scheel, Hugues Abriel…

New on F1000Research – 17 November 2014

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. We are currently at the SfN meeting, where we are launching several new article collections in neuroscience topics. See our collections page to view them all, or visit us at the SfN…

Beat Ebola with better research sharing, says discoverer of virus

Key points F1000Research: Ebola article collection launched to enable all Ebola-related knowledge to be made available on a single platform within days of submission. All articles submitted to this collection will be prioritized and those accepted will be published free of charge. F1000Research has set up a dedicated phone line (+442071931030) to enable those working…

What is open science?

This is the fifth and final instalment of the “What is…” series of posts, in which we focus on open science. Previous posts in this series covered open access, open peer review, post-publication peer review and open data. Here we look at open science as a collective term, and some of the other concepts that…