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: Cytoplasmic nanojunctions between lysosomes and sarcoplasmic reticulum are required for specific calcium signaling [v1; ref status: indexed, https://f1000r.es/32q] Nicola Fameli, Oluseye A. Ogunbayo, Cornelis van Breemen…
This week’s news from the open science world: The Bouchout Declaration for Open Biodiversity Knowledge Management is open for signatures. “The purpose of the Bouchout Declaration is to help make digital data about our biodiversity openly available. It offers members of the biodiversity community a way to demonstrate their commitment to open science.” It’s the…
Regular readers of this blog will be aware that Data Notes allow researchers to provide human readable context about their datasets in the form of a peer reviewed article. Professor Jürgen Bajorath holds the Life Science Informatics chair at the University of Bonn and has published three F1000Research Data Notes to date. We asked him…
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: Data publication consensus and controversies [v2; ref status: indexed, https://f1000r.es/3hi] John Kratz, Carly Strasser The movement to bring data into the scholarly record as first class…
This week’s news from the open science world: Editing company Cofactor launched in London on June 11 with an event about changes in peer review. Several panelists spoke about open peer review, including F1000Research author Giulia De Rossi. Storify with tweets from the event is here, and a photo (by Kaveh Bazargan) is below. The…
A few weeks ago we published Prof. Kenneth Lee and his research group’s attempt to replicate the now infamous STAP cell work published in January of this year. Ken’s groups article has proven to be very popular with the scientific community having received over 5000 views in its first two weeks of being online, and…
This is the second in a series of posts in which we go into more detail about some of the concepts that F1000Research is based on. In the first instalment, we looked at open access. Here, we turn to open peer review. What is open peer review? What are the benefits and challenges? History of…
A recent study by Timothy Vines et al investigated the availability of scientific research data from 516 papers between 2 and 22 years of age1. They report that the older a paper is, the less likely it is that the data are accessible, with odds of accessible data falling by 17% per year after publication.…
Last week on Twitter we had a very interesting conversation that discussed archiving research before publication in preprint servers and other repositories as part of Faculty of 1000′s #F1000Talks series of discussions around topics relevant to researchers. Our special guests for the discussion were Mark Hahnel and Ethan White. It was an engaging discussion, which…
As our sister journal F1000Research publishes the full experimental results of Kenneth Lee’s attempts to replicate the notorious STAP cell research, we thought we’d chart the story so far…
