There’s an app for everything, including for reading medical journals! Docwise shows you the latest articles from your favourite medical journals and the latest medical news in a magazine-like interface. They have a wide array of journals and websites included, and F1000Research is one of them. When you sign up for the app, which is…
Open Access Week Open Access Week is an annual, global event, promoting open access publishing. Each year, talks or discussions about open access are planned at institutes around the world. This year, Open Access Week is from October 21 to 27, and F1000Research will be travelling to several institutes to talk about our publishing model.…
As most US Government institutions are currently closed due to the lapse in government funding (the ‘shutdown’), there may be some delays in the reviewing of papers published in F1000Research. Any reviewers employed by US Government agencies and institutes who have agreed to review articles prior to the shutdown on 1 October will not be…
Vitek Tracz, our chairman, founder and all-round science publishing firebrand, has been interviewed by Science in their latest issue: Communication in Science Pressure and Predators. The interview provides an insight into the man who has become famous for his experimental approach to scientific publishing and his willingness to challenge the status quo. In the interview,…
September 21st is World Alzheimer’s Day, and we’d like to mark this by highlighting two F1000Research papers from the past year that have been received very well (you can read the public referee reports on each article) and that both reported new discoveries related to Alzheimer’s disease. Sometimes it might feel that progress in disease…
Earlier this month I had the chance to be on the panel of one of Sense About Science’s peer review workshops. Sense About Science is an organisation that helps people make sense of scientific information. For example, they run campaigns to encourage people to ask for evidence when beauty products make scientific claims, but they…
We’ve been busy over the summer, so we thought we’d give you a summary of some of our recent activities and current events: Negative results: We extended the very popular negative results campaign until the end of September, so if you have a paper with negative results, you can submit that for free before then.…
Science’s most important breakthroughs, from the discovery of microorganisms to the theory of evolution, have come about through observation. As part of the scientific method, observations are made to record a fact or an occurrence to help either prove or disprove a hypothesis. However, we all know the unpredictable nature of science and the curve…
One of the interesting aspects of F1000Research articles is that you can update them at any time. In February, Jasmina Kurepa and Jan Smalle, of the University of Kentucky, published a paper about an Arabidopsis 26S proteasome mutant that passed peer review within just a few weeks. However, in June, they updated their paper with…
When you visit the F1000Research homepage or the page with all articles, you can see that we put our papers into two different categories: Published articles (all articles) and Indexed articles. Since articles go online before they pass peer review, a newly published article will not yet have passed peer review and will not be…
