Original research articles with one author – particularly in the life sciences – are increasingly rare, and the concept of ‘authorship’ in science has become outdated. Adopting a simple taxonomy of terms to describe the contributions to a published work could enable a range of benefits to all the stakeholders in research – most particularly…
It’s award season again! And that means it’s time to announce the F1000 Specialist of the Year 2015. Last year was extremely busy for many of our F1000 Specialists, which made the decision even harder than in 2014. After a long round of deliberations, we’re pleased to highlight the achievements of five F1000 Specialists, one…
Shang Su is the F1000 Specialist Contact at Tsinghua University in Beijing. He has found a number of ways to reach out to the research community there, which you can read about in the interview below. If you’d like to become an F1000 Specialist yourself, and tell your own colleagues about F1000, you can sign…
Mingle with peers and learn about F1000 – our local networking meetup for the F1000 community
Are you based at University College London? Join us on August 19 upstairs at Prince of Wales Feathers (near Warren Street station) for some free drinks and food, and to meet other F1000Prime, F1000Workspace and F1000Research users from UCL. We will start the evening at 6PM, and there will be a very short talk at…
Did you know that we have a network of PhD students, postdocs, and others who help us reach out to their colleagues about F1000? The F1000 Specialists programme has been running since 2013, but we’re about to introduce a few changes. Starting next week, F1000 Specialists will receive a monthly newsletter with news about F1000,…
We’ll be at EB 2015 AND we’re holding a Boston meet-up!
This is a cross-post from F1000Research, written by Eva Amsen. For the past few weeks, the F1000 Outreach Directors have looked at lists of all of your past activities to figure out who deserved to be crowned this year’s F1000 Specialist of the Year. The decision was much harder than last year because so many…
Last week, F1000Research’s managing director, Rebecca Lawrence, attended a meeting with the Nuffield Council on Bioethics to discuss the culture of science research and the drivers behind it. Rebecca represented science publishers, alongside Dame Nancy Rothwell (President and Vice-Chancellor, Uni of Manchester) who represented UK research institutions, and Steven Hill (Head of Research Policy, Higher…
We’ll be hosting another #F1000Talks live chat on Wednesday 3rd December, 1pm EST/6PM GMT. Join us to talk about personalized medicine! We’ll be tweeting from @F1000 , using the #F1000Talks hashtag.
