We’ve just returned from the FASEB Experimental Biology meeting in Boston, where we hosted an evening of discussions about science publishing. We invited five prominent guest speakers to discuss the importance of rapid publication, publishing non-standard studies, open data, transparent peer review, and the influence of governments and funders on open access. All talks have…
There has been a lot of discussion about speed to publication in the blogosphere recently, so we thought we would share some initial insights into our stats (and remind you that our speed isn’t the only thing that makes F1000Research different). Fast? How fast? We have analyzed our first few months of publishing and can…
We will be publishing some interviews with authors of F1000Research papers on this blog. Today we hear from Jürgen Schnermann, Chief of the Kidney Disease Branch at NIDDK/NIH. His group recently published a paper in F1000Research “Nephron filtration rate and proximal tubular fluid reabsorption in the Akita mouse model of type I diabetes mellitus”. In…
Mark your diaries if you’re in the Boston area, and join us on April 22nd for an evening of provocative talks, followed by drinks, in celebration of Open Science Publishing. Coinciding with the Experimental Biology meeting in Boston, but open to delegates and non-delegates alike, F1000Research is hosting a discussion on the benefits of Open…
Did you know that we have a Twitter account? We use it to notify people of new papers, to discuss the latest news in science publishing, and of course to keep up with the vibrant science community there. We’re curious to know who our authors, referees, and readers are on Twitter. Give us a shout-out…
I’ve recently returned from the Beyond the PDF2 unconference in Amsterdam and I’m really excited about the enthusiastic response we received to the proposals for new data review guidelines, which I presented on behalf of a project we have been co-organising with Geraldine Stoneham-Clement, Elizabeth Newbold and Jonathan Tedds. The purpose of the project At…
Researchers are coming under increasing pressure to share the detailed results of their research, namely the datasets themselves, with other researchers. The pressure may come in the form of data management plans now being requested by many funders, or from requests for the data from an institutional data repository, or from journals that are increasingly…
As you can see, we have had a busy couple of months with plenty of new articles published on a wide range of topics. I just wanted to take a few minutes to explain a couple of points that have been causing a little confusion on our site. What does ‘indexed’ mean? The first relates…
Back in 2005, Dr Susan Lolle and her colleagues from Purdue University published a paper on genetic variation in Arabidopsis thaliana in Nature ((Lolle, Victor, Young et al: Genome-wide non-Mendelian inheritance of extra-genomic information in Arabidopsis. Nature (2005) 434:505-9)) that caused quite a stir amongst plant biologists, geneticists and pretty much everyone else in the…
We are very pleased to say that F1000Research has been approved for indexing in PubMed. Don’t rush off to go and look for our articles there yet though, as there will be a short delay before the first ones appear – it should happen in the next few weeks. We have agreed with the NLM…
