Are you in New York City? There’s an Open Science meetup next week. Last week’s webinar about getting tenure with open science, with Titus Brown, is now viewable on YouTube. The US Government has released datasets to help study the health impacts of climate change. Erin McKiernan has collected examples of collaborations resulting from open…
Back in November 2014, BioMed Central discovered about 50 manuscripts in their editorial system that involved fake peer reviewers. Following a detailed investigation, they have now started the process of retracting 43 papers that had been published on the basis of reviews from made-up reviewers. Some of these papers were from the original 50 but…
Below is a selection of newly indexed and published articles on F1000Research. To receive notification of all new articles, sign up for our table of contents alerts New channel: Our newest channel is on Oxygen-binding and sensing proteins, with guest editor Robert Poole. It includes a snapshot of the work presented at a meeting on…
A day early this week because of the bank holiday tomorrow, but there was still plenty of news from the open science community. This Friday (April 3) you can tune in to a webinar on “Gaining Tenure as an Open Scientist”, hosted by OpenCon with Titus Brown as guest. One of the fears people often…
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 Interpretation of mRNA splicing mutations in genetic disease: review of the literature and guidelines for information-theoretical analysis [v2; ref status: indexed, https://f1000r.es/54y] Natasha G. Caminsky, Eliseos J.…
Lots of meeting notes from Open Science meeting in this week’s roundup! Meeting report from last week’s Open Science meeting at the Center for Open Science, by Amye Kenall. When Data Sharing Gets Close to 100%: What Human Paleogenetics Can Teach the Open Science Movement. Article in PLOS One Notes from the Science 2.0 Conference…
As you might know, we’re partnered with Sense About Science to support their “Nuts and Bolts” peer review workshops in the UK. We recently published a report by Anna Cupani who attended the previous workshop at St Andrews University. The next workshop has now been announced and will take place in London on May 29.…
Getting a new research grant is hard. You have to write a proposal about things you haven’t even done yet, and convince a panel that your work is important and likely to succeed. And because you haven’t done the work yet (because you need grant money first) you don’t have published articles to support your…
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 Guiding Ebola patients to suitable health facilities: an SMS-based approach [v1; ref status: indexed, https://f1000r.es/51l] Mohamad-Ali Trad, Raja Jurdak, Rajib Rana “We propose building a recommendation system…
Amanda Rodewald writes on The Hill about recent bills considered in the US, and discusses whether they are in sync with the ideal of Open Science. Lots of tweets from the Open Science meeting at the Center for Open Science on #opensci15 An interesting workshop for graduate school administrators “from Engineering, Marine and Biosciences Doctoral…
