New on F1000Research – 26 May 2015

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 A reanalysis of mouse ENCODE comparative gene expression data [v1; ref status: approved with reservations 1, https://f1000r.es/5ez] Yoav Gilad, Orna Mizrahi-Man In this article, which initiated as…

Open Science News – 22 May 2015

When will “open science” become simply “science”?  By Mick Watson in Genome Biology. Slides for a short course called “Open Science goes Geo”, which was presented at the European Geosciences Union General Assembly earlier this year, are available on Zenodo in three parts: Part I: Research Data, Part II: Scientific Software, Part III: Beyond Data…

Be the first to re-analyse the blind way

This is a call for researchers working on pain behaviours in rodents to publish an independent re- analysis of the blinded data in Morland et al. (2015) and to update their article following an unblinded analysis. One of the best safeguards against experimenter bias muddying results is to make sure the researcher doesn’t know which…

New on F1000Research – 18 May 2015

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 Adherence to Artemisinin Combination Therapy for the treatment of uncomplicated malaria in the Democratic Republic of the Congo [v2; ref status: indexed, https://f1000r.es/596] M. Ruby Siddiqui,…

F1000 and ORCID Partner to Launch Standard for Citing Peer Review Activities

By Laure Haak (Executive Director, ORCID) and Rebecca Lawrence (Managing Director, F1000 Research Ltd); cross-posted on the ORCID blog. Peer review is an essential component of the research and scholarly lifecycle.  And yet, researcher peer review activities are rarely acknowledged as a fundamental contribution to research.  At the same time, the need to encourage more…

Open Science News – 15 May 2015

This week in open science news: Some interesting pieces to read, and a few ways you can be involved in open science via hack days, community calls, or surveys. Things to read: Science is often flawed. It’s time we embraced that. By Julia Belluz and Steven Hoffman on Vox Will traditional science journals disappear? By…

New on F1000Research – 11 May 2015

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 Portrayed emotions in the movie “Forrest Gump” [v1; ref status: indexed, https://f1000r.es/55o] Annika Labs, Theresa Reich, Helene Schulenburg, Manuel Boennen, Gehrke Mareike, Madleen Golz, Benita Hartigs, Nico Hoffmann,…

Open Science News – 8 May 2015

The Hague Declaration to improve knowledge creation in the digital age was launched in Brussels on Wednesday, and is now open for you to sign! The Open Source Malaria project needs some people to help add OSM numbers to compounds. If you want to help, all the info is on GitHub. Kim Holmberg uploaded some…

New on F1000Research – 5 May 2015

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 I drink for my liver, Doc: emerging evidence that coffee prevents cirrhosis [v1; ref status: indexed, https://f1000r.es/59o] Jordan J. Feld, Élise G. Lavoie, Fausther Michel, Jonathan A…