In a New York Times article published last week, doctors advocate for more open science in order to more rapidly communicate lifesaving treatments. Open Knowledge Finland Open Science Working Group held a workshop on Thursday 24th entitled “Beyond Open Access: The changing culture of producing and disseminating scientific knowledge,” which is summed up in this…
Today we are very excited to publish The ICR1000 UK exome series: a resource of gene variation in an outbred population a research article from Nazneen Rahman’s Lab at the Institute of Cancer Research, UK. The dataset described in the paper includes exome sequence data from 1,000 individuals of the general UK population where the…
A selection of new content on F1000Research from the past week. To receive notification of all new articles, sign up for our table of contents alerts. Featured channel If you’re using antibodies in your research, you can publish the validation of your antibodies for free in the Antibody Validation channel . This channel, which has…
Earlier this week, the 7th Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing (COASP) was held in Amsterdam. You can find conversations from the meeting on Twitter, under the #COASP hashtag. “It’s OK to be wrong in public“, and other advice for implementing an open science workflow with Software Carpentry. You’ve heard about Green and Gold, but…
A selection of new content on F1000Research from the past week. To receive notification of all new articles, sign up for our table of contents alerts. Featured channel Participants from last week’s Genome Science: Biology, Applications and Technology conference (held in Birmingham from September 7-9) have been uploading posters and slides of their meeting to…
Content from the former Open Science Stack Exchange has been moved to two locations where they might see more interaction. Old entries are now part of the Academia Stack Exchange (such as this question) as well as a new platform launched by Christian Pietsch. Stephen Curry shares his thoughts on peer review and preprints on…
In December, Dr Vikash Bhardwaj from Lovely Professional University in India published an article in F1000Research that showed that he was able to generate PCR products in a parallel (rather than antiparallel) direction. In this blog post he describes some of the opportunities and conversations that followed this publication, and introduces his opinion piece “Villain…
A selection of new content on F1000Research from the past week. To receive notification of all new articles, sign up for our table of contents alerts. Featured channel The channel on lupus nephritis and neuropsychiatric lupus, edited by Chaim Putterman, Richard Quigg and Beatrice Goilav, is a place for original research articles regarding the manifestations,…
Research Ideas and Outcomes (RIO) launched, and will start accepting submissions in November. Like F1000Research, they will publish articles in all stages of research, including hypotheses and proposals. They also allow versioned articles. Good to see others using this type of publication model, and expanding it to other fields! It was also a good week…
The Wikipedia Science Conference took place in London this week, and brought together scientists, Wikipedians, science communicators, programmers and others for a two-day discussion about those areas where Wikipedia and science overlap. There were talks about getting scientists to help edit Wikipedia, about the extent of the scientific information available on Wikipedia, and how we…
