The CERN Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication is currently underway in Geneva. You can follow along on Twitter with the #OAI9 hashtag. Euroscientist interviewed Jan Velterop about the next steps towards open science. The Web will either kill science journals or save them, says Wired. We’re mentioned as one of the positive changes. As…
Hot on the heels of announcing our first society channel with the ISCB, we are equally as delighted to reveal we will be partnering with the International Neuroinformatics Coordinating Facility (INCF) to publish a new channel called the INCF Community journal, which will launch in August [See press release]. Now becoming an established field that…
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 Article Short-term effect of acute and repeated urinary bladder inflammation on thigmotactic behaviour in the laboratory rat [v1; ref status: indexed, https://f1000r.es/56e] Rosemary H Morland, Amparo Novejarque, Wenlong…
Slides from the Open Repositories keynote on leveraging the web for science are now available. On Statistics Views, Joanna Carpenter talks about Reproducibility in science: uncovering truths Do you know cases where emergencies triggered openness in response, for example data sharing during disease outbreaks such as the recent Ebola crisis? Daniel Mietchen is collecting instances…
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 article Why are enteric ganglia so small? Role of differential adhesion of enteric neurons and enteric neural crest cells. [v1; ref status: indexed, https://f1000r.es/59q] Benjamin N. Rollo, Dongcheng…
OpenCon 2015 applications are open! The conference will take place November 14-16 in Brussels. If you’re a student or early career academics, apply for a spot at the meeting. If you’re in or near London, drop by London Open Drinks on June 10, 6PM, at The Fellow in King’s Cross. Meet publishers and others working…
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 article Behavioural evidence for self-medication in bumblebees? [v2; ref status: indexed, https://f1000r.es/5ep] David Baracchi, Mark J. F. Brown, Lars Chittka Bumblebees infected with a parasite have a…
Neil Chue Hong crowdsourced a long list of all the journals in which you can publish software. Green or Gold? On their blogs, open access champions Michael Eisen and Mike Taylor debate what the future will look like. The inevitable failure of parasitic green open access, by Michael Eisen, and the response by Mike Taylor,…
Behind everything at Faculty of 1000 (F1000) is the F1000 Faculty, comprising over 6,600 world-leading experts across more than 40 disciplines in the life sciences and medicine. The Faculty includes 10 Nobel Laureates, 16 Lasker Award winners, over 150 members of the National Academy of Sciences, and many others who have received prestigious awards for…
In January we celebrated the second anniversary of our launch. To mark the occasion, we looked backed on what we had achieved in the years since our launch, and gathered some stats in an infographic. As we continue to grow and develop our innovative publishing and peer review model, we thought we’d take a look…
