Earlier this week, the Advancing Research Communication & Scholarship conference took place in Philadelphia. Here, Paige Brown moderated a roundtable on Socializing Scholarly Communication, with Lou Woodley, Erin McKiernan and Ivan Oransky. On the BioMedCentral blog, Stephanie Harriman wrote a summary of another ARCScon panel, on Righting Peer Review. You can find more tweets/slides/thoughts from…
This week we are very excited to announce our first publishing partnership with a prestigious academic society. From July, the International Society of Computational Biology (ISCB) will have its own dedicated channel on F1000Research for the ISCB Community Journal. [See press release]. F1000 has always had a fruitful relationship with the computational biology community, and…
May not represent our actual mode of transportation. We regularly visit our users and other scientists in their institutes or at conferences. Since we have a lot of visits coming up, in five countries, it’s time again for an “F1000 tour” post, so you can find out exactly where we’ll be the coming weeks.…
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 Last week we published the first ever “living figure” that includes data from several labs, allowing researchers to collaborate on a publication. In this article by Colomb…
Yesterday and today the FOSTER-UNESCO Open Science for Doctoral Schools meeting took place in Paris. Attendees have been tweeting using the #OpenSci4Doc hashtag. Digital Science has been busy: Here’s a summary of their “Shaking It Up: Challenges and Solutions in Scholarly Information Management” event in San Francisco earlier this week, and an announcement of an…
Last year, open science developer-advocate Jure Triglav wrote a post on how scientific figures should work in 2014. Jure went beyond encouraging the use of scientific figures that update in real-time, he created one on his blog; a neat graph that auto-plots the number of sun-mentioning tweets in the Bay Area against actual cloud coverage…
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 Long read nanopore sequencing for detection of HLA and CYP2D6 variants and haplotypes [v1; ref status: indexed, https://f1000r.es/4zj] Ron Ammar, Tara A. Paton, Dax Torti, Adam Shlien,…
The biggest open science news this week was the announcement that the World Health Organisation is asking for clinical trial data to be made publicly available. Many lives could have been saved if crucial Ebola research had not been behind a paywall, reports TechDirt. Lack of available data could have prevented several cases of research…
After a particularly cold and brutal winter, this past 26th March, F1000 invited local life scientists and clinicians to Cambridge’s (MA) FIRE + ICE for an evening of networking and talking publishing and science We kicked off the event with a short presentation on the new F1000 Workspace, followed by a second presentation on F1000Research’s…
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 The culture of scientific research [v1; ref status: indexed, https://f1000r.es/53j] Catherine Joynson, Ottoline Leyser “In 2014, the UK-based Nuffield Council on Bioethics carried out a series of…
