One of the things we’re working on behind the scenes is improving education about peer review. We’re talking to university staff and faculty involved in teaching graduate students about peer review, I’ve set up a group on Mendeley that collects good examples of open peer review reports, and we’re a partner of Sense About Science’s…
We talk a lot about sharing data, but sharing materials is another important component of collaborative science. In this guest post, Dr Joanne Kamens of plasmid repository Addgene tells us what the most often shared plasmids are. Are you plasmid sharing these days? Addgene is a nonprofit plasmid repository helping scientists share plasmids internationally. Our…
This past Wednesday, March 19th we had our third #F1000Talks tweet chat installment where we discussed science and researcher diversity. The discussion was a fast-paced one, full of great ideas and advice from all of our participants. Be sure to join us again in April for another exciting afternoon! We will announce the topic and special guests shortly. In the…
Earlier this year, a case report we published received a bit of media attention. It was the case of a patient in Switzerland with an (initially) unexplained case of lead poisoning. After a detailed interview, the culprit was identified: This patient had been taking alternative medicine from Bhutan, said to contain the hair of a…
Take a look at your typical research laboratory and you are likely to see a small representation of UN-member countries. During my time as a graduate student studying vascular development in the lab of Dr Dan Turnbull, at NYU, there was a strong representation of researchers from Canada, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Poland, Puerto Rico (technically…
As you know, at F1000Research we ask that all authors include all data with their publications. But why share data? What are the benefits? In one example, below, Michael R. Hunsaker shares his successful story of getting a publication based on data that were shared by another lab, after they first used his data. Do…
Our commitment to making scientific data open and accessible includes implementing accepted standards for data publication. F1000Research is very pleased to endorse the recently finalised FORCE11 data citation principles, many of which we have already implemented: Importance. F1000Research gives authors the option to publish data articles, which means that generating and sharing data can more…
The physiological effect of a gene is not just determined by its DNA sequence alone. In recent years, researchers have discovered the important role of DNA methylation: A methyl group on cytosine is an epigenetic modification that affects development, transcription, and a range of other functions. To understand how DNA methylation affects a particular phenotype,…
Ross Mounce is a researcher at the University of Bath and a F1000 Specialist. In this guest post he addresses the problem of publishing results merely as images, rather than as reusable data, and he shares his solution to unlocking data from images of phylogenetic trees. During the course of my PhD thesis research on…
Last week we were very pleased to publish the first F1000Research Article Collection. The BioJS collection was initially launched with 12 open source biological visualisation components, one BioJS community article and an overarching editorial. It was very exciting for us to publish this collection based on an open source software initiative which is going from…
