What was new in open science this week? European researchers demand more transparency and openness in the Human Brain Project’s decisions and allocation of funds. Missed yesterday’s Mozilla Science call? Catch up here! In Berlin next week? Check out the Open Knowledge Festival and it’s fringe events. You can also keep up via #OKFest14 on Twitter. There are…
This is the third in a series of posts in which we go into more detail about some of the concepts that F1000Research is based on. In previous installments, we looked at open access and open peer review. Here, we turn to post-publication peer review. What are the different types of post-publication peer review 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 article: Vitellogenin family gene expression does not increase Drosophila lifespan or fecundity [v1; ref status: indexed, https://f1000r.es/3ac] Yingxue Ren, Kimberly A. Hughes Vitellogenin (Vg), a yolk protein precursor…
What was new in open science this week? Are you a researcher in Germany? This survey asks how you are using online tools in your research. Want to help make science more open? Mozilla is hosting a Global Sprint on July 22 and 23. You can find more info in the notes for the planning…
Today F1000Research is very excited to announce the launch of the Cytoscape App Collection which consists of 16 new articles and an overarching editorial. Building upon the success of the BioJS Collection published earlier this year, our latest collection is a collaboration with Cytoscape, the open source software platform for visualizing complex networks. The collection…
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: Yeast Augmented Network Analysis (YANA): a new systems approach to identify therapeutic targets for human genetic diseases [v1; ref status: indexed, https://f1000r.es/3gk] David J. Wiley, Ilona…
When your research data is no longer of use to you, And your career goals are moving you on, Before you abandon your data, Stop a while, consider, could that be wrong? Your data took effort to produce Calibrating equipment, reagents and so on Not to mention the hours spent looking at spreadsheets Just…
At F1000Research we are constantly pushing the boundary of what defines a research article. Authors can submit descriptions of unexpected, novel, and possibly unexplained observations in the form of Observation Articles. These observations can be a phenomena that has been identified in field work, in the laboratory or through experimental analysis. We recently published Prof. Andrew Baird’s…
This week’s news from the open science world: In Canada, a public discussion about open science has kicked off as part of Canada’s Action Plan on Open Government 2.0 Consultation. Canadians can leave their own comments to join the discussion. If you’re in Melbourne, Australia, and interested in finding out more about open science, you…
Authors may wish to submit Data Notes for data no longer being actively used, giving other researchers the opportunity to work on the data for novel studies. Or researchers may wish to publish a Data Note to ensure that data continues to be accessible in the future. F1000Research is currently waiving APCs for Data Notes…
