Today, we are pleased to announce the arrival of F1000Research Article Collections, which launches with 14 new articles based upon open source biological visualisation components, and comprises the start of the BioJS collection, guest edited by F1000Research editorial board member Manuel Corpas from The Genome Analysis Centre (TGAC), UK. The articles that comprise the BioJS…
We recently marked the first anniversary of the official launch of F1000Research; it’s been an eventful year, in which we published a few hundred papers on a range of topics in biology and medicine. Now we’d like to ask our readers, authors, and referees for a few minutes to fill in a survey about F1000Research.…
A rare disease is defined as only affecting 1 in 2000 Europeans, or fewer than 200,000 Americans; however, there are so many rare diseases, that in the EU alone they affect up to 30 million individuals. Research on any of the thousands of rare diseases deserves to be published and shared. F1000Research offers an open…
Why is resource identification important? Have you ever had to look for ages to find that antibody that worked so perfectly in that study you read? Or worse, have you ever come to the conclusion that the amazing antibody did not actually label the protein it was supposed to? More and more scientists are convinced…
Last night, scientists on Twitter starting sharing six-word peer review reports, parodying particular types of referee reports. We were following along, and noticed that a lot of the #SixWordPeerReview tweets were mocking particular types of referee reports: the referees were asking for too many experiments, or the referees wanted the authors to cite their papers.…
It’s a new year and although the weather still requires us to dress in layers, things are heating up here at F1000Research. During the next few months we will be attending some conferences and visiting a few institutes to engage with researchers and talk about our publishing model. If you’re attending any of the following…
Being a scientist is about more than just research alone: there is publishing involved, teaching and outreach, and keeping on top of new developments in policy and data sharing issues. All these are themselves areas for study and analysis. For example, we’ve previously published papers about implementing journal clubs or about the accuracy of Google…
See what we have planned for Rare Disease Day in our latest update. Since 2008, the last day in February has been designated as Rare Disease Day (because in leap years, that is the rarest day). Throughout the world, several events are held on this day to increase awareness of rare diseases. We will be…
As you may remember, F1000 has a programme called F1000 Specialists, which allows users of any of the F1000 products, including F1000Research and F1000Posters, to help inform others in their community about us. We launched this last summer, and now have more than 150 F1000 Specialists on six continents. To apply to become an F1000…
Just before we broke up for the holidays at the end of last year we were lucky enough to have editorial board member and F1000Research author Professor Ali Mobasheri visit us in our London office. During the visit (and after the obligatory tea and biscuits!) we managed to capture on camera a brief overview of…
