Recently an Opinion Article ‘Fairness in scientific publishing’ by Philippa Matthews, University of Oxford, passed peer review on F1000Research after the publication of version 2. Both versions were openly peer reviewed by three reviewers, one of whom was Gustav Nilsonne, Karolinska Institute. In this blog, both discuss what the FAIR Principles – Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Re-usable – mean for authors, reviewers, readers and publishers.
We are delighted to announce the appointment of David Lipman, Janet Thornton and Alfonso Valenciaas our Heads of Faculty for the Bioinformatics, Biomedical Informatics & Computational Biology Faculty.
Ross Mounce is January’s Specialist of the Month. F1000 Specialists are PhD students, postdocs, clinicians and researchers who help their colleagues use F1000Prime, F1000Workspace and F1000Research, and spread the word about F1000 within their institutes.
Anja Bielinsky is January’s featured Faculty Member of the Month. She has been a Member of the Cell Biology Faculty since March 2012. Faculty Members (FMs) are acknowledged experts invited to recommend the articles that are included in F1000Prime. They review the articles, write brief comments, and score the articles.
From pre-registration to preprints – take a quick break from your experiments and catch up with what’s happening in the world of open science.
Science Fiesta is a large science outreach event hosted by San Antonio Science and organized primarily by graduate students. The primary goal of the event was to reach new audiences by infusing existing South Texas traditions with science and to break down cultural barriers to science engagement. The event brought together over 50 organizations to offer interactive exhibits, scientific…
In this guest post, Dugald Foster, who recently completed an MSc in Evolutionary Anthropology at the University of Durham, talks about his experience at a peer review workshop hosted by Sense About Science that he recently attended.
If our blog could talk, right now it would probably use the much clichéd phrase: “new year, new me!” Today marks the launch of our new and much improved blog network, which we hope you will like as much as we do.
As 2016 draws to a close we’ve had a look at our most-read blogs for the year. The top five are listed below so you can revisit them too. Covering topics from the launch of wellcome Open Research to using data visualization as a means of hunger, malnutrition and poverty. We hope that you enjoy them!
If, like us, you’re taking a little break for the holidays, you may wish to catch up on some of our most popular blog posts from 2016. Enjoy your time off!
