After a successful beta release since July 2012, F1000Research has today come out of beta, re-launching on a new publishing platform together with a change of colour to celebrate. Moving to our own custom-built site will enable us to have much greater flexibility and agility to further develop the site and expand the features available. …
What goes on behind closed doors in journal editorial offices is becoming more and more of a ‘hot topic’ as publications are encouraged to move towards open access, and authors seek justification for the amount they pay to publish their research. One particular issue brought to light by Ben Goldacre’s recent book, Bad Pharma, is…
We have been pleased to see that our novel referee process on F1000 Research generally seems to be working well (and fast), with many authors now revising their articles (see our first two revisions from Frederick Morfaw and Gavin Oliver). We have made a number of changes to our refereeing process over the past few…
We have now finalised our Article Processing Charges (APCs) for F1000 Research which will come into effect on 1 Jan 2013 (submission is free of charge until this date). We have split our article types into 2 main groups: Short articles: single-result articles / data articles / case reports / articles based on posters /…
We have published our first articles on the F1000 Research beta site and have already learned a lot about what works, what doesn’t quite, and what we need to consider as we move towards our full launch at the end of the year. Based on the experience of the past couple of weeks, we have…
As I mentioned in one of my posts last week, we have devised a novel approach to article citation, in conjunction with our Advisory Panel and the major indexers, that will handle the complexities of citing articles that are in an evolving state of refereeing and may have more than one version – if they…
I am delighted to announce the publication of our first articles on our preliminary consultation site. They showcase a range of topics and all offer easy access to the data behind the results. HIV education campaigns in Africa leaving public vulnerable Devon Brewer (Director, Interdisciplinary Scientific Research) has submitted an article entitled Knowledge of specific…
We’re delighted to announce that F1000 Research and figshare have teamed up to build a widget for F1000 Research articles that enables users to preview, download, cite and share data in accompanying datasets, at the click of a button. You will be able to see this new tool for the first time in some of…
Sorry for the long silence since my last post – we’ve been busy getting everything ready! We’re in fact almost there now and will be publishing our first articles in the next few days. As we announced back in January, we expect to publish a small number of articles over the coming months so that…
We are delighted to welcome on board an exceptional list of some of the biggest names across biology and medicine onto our F1000 Research Advisory Panel. Over the past couple of weeks, our panel has doubled in size to over 200 members, and I am sure most of you will recognise many of these individuals.…
