Brief news from the world of open science: Tomorrow is International Open Data Day See if there are any events near you! A science BarCamp (unconference) in Hamburg on March 24 Great comprehensive list of open science events in Europe Average article processing charge (in GBP) paid by UK universities for open access articles(NB: ours…
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 Characterizing alpha helical properties of Ebola viral proteins as potential targets for inhibition of alpha-helix mediated protein-protein interactions [v3; ref status: indexed, https://f1000r.es/50u] Sandeep Chakraborty, Basuthkar J.…
A mixed bag of open science news in this week’s round-up. We’ve mentioned the Open Science Q&A proposal on Stack Exchange before. They now have 58% of the required number of committed users. Commitment is minimal: if you can answer just a few questions about open science, please sign up to help them reach their…
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 Capsaicin from chili (Capsicum spp.) inhibits vascular smooth muscle cell proliferation [v1; ref status: indexed, https://f1000r.es/4yk] Rongxia Liu, Elke H. Heiss, Dean Guo, Verena M. Dirsch, Atanas…
New tools and resources: Tool from SPARC Europe to test how open your institute’s research is A proposed Q&A for scientists interested in open science. It still needs about a hundred people to commit. The Open Glossary contains lots of useful terms related to open science. New paper and recommendations from the Open Science Initiative.…
The paper that first announced the double helical structure of DNA made Watson and Crick household names, earned them a share of a Nobel Prize and has since been cited 5,300 times. The entire article took up just a single page of A4 with one small illustration. This is a prime example of how good…
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 Longevity of Atlantic Sharpnose Sharks Rhizoprionodon terraenovae and Blacknose Sharks Carcharhinus acronotus in the western North Atlantic Ocean based on tag-recapture data and direct age estimates…
This week, some literal “open science news” as open science hit the media: Open science was mentioned on Canadian TV this week, in TVO’s The Agenda with Steve Paikin. Wall Street journal blog Pharmalot discusses issues with sharing older clinical trial data. Science Careers discusses various aspects of open science, from open notebooks to open…
(cross-posted from the F1000 Naturally Selected blog) Are you based in Oxford, UK? We’re having a meet-up there on February 10 – everyone is welcome! F1000 meet-ups are a chance for researchers to meet others working in the same city, and to talk to F1000 and F1000Research staff, or meet their local F1000 Specialists. At…
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 Binding of a fluorescence reporter and a ligand to an odorant-binding protein of the yellow fever mosquito, Aedes aegypti [v2; ref status: indexed, https://f1000r.es/4yp ] Gabriel…
