Interesting sites Looking at open science through the prism of a social dilemma. The open science movement is itself the subject of scholarly research. Very interesting stuff! “[O]pen science can be looked at through the prism of a social dilemma: what is in the collective best interest is not necessarily in the best interest of…
Today, we are very pleased to highlight some exciting new data with regards to genome sequencing. We have just published a short research paper from the Bader lab at the University of Toronto providing the first public example of the Oxford MinION nanopore sequencer being evaluated for utility in the clinic. For those not familiar…
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 Shaping the Future of Research: a perspective from junior scientists [v2; ref status: indexed, https://f1000r.es/4yc] Gary S. McDowell, Kearney T. W. Gunsalus, Drew C. MacKellar, Sarah A. Mazzilli, Vaibhav P.…
Three topics jumped out in Open Science news this week: open peer review, calls for conference posters, and FORCE2015 meeting summaries. Open Review A new version of the Open Science Peer Review Oath is now up. Based on reviewers’ and commenters’ feedback, the new version is much more succinct. Related: Daniel Katz blogged about open…
F1000Research is one of the partners of Sense About Science’s “Nuts and Bolts” peer review workshops. Below is a report from the most recent workshop, written by Anna Cupani. Anna is working on her PhD in Chemical Engineering at Imperial College, London in a joint collaboration with a Belgian research institute, VITO. She is interested…
In our birthday week, we published a lot of new articles and referee reports. Some of the most recently peer reviewed and published articles are below, but make sure to subscribe to the table of contents alert emails if you want to receive all updates. You can also track individual articles to be notified when…
We’re starting 2015 off with lots of open science news. Here’s a summary: Next week is the FORCE2015 meeting in Oxford, about innovations in research communication. If you’re not able to attend, you can follow the conference online on their site or via Twitter at #FORCE2015 Two open science communities have community calls next week.…
Today is the two year anniversary of the official launch of F1000Research. In that time, over 2200 authors published 682 articles that have been viewed more than 800,000 times! You can find these stats, and more,in our infographic. Our many authors and reviewers come from almost a thousand institutes around the world, representing all Ivy…
Tomorrow (January 8) is the second anniversary of our launch. To celebrate, we’re looking back on what we’ve achieved in two short years, and have gathered some stats in the infographic below. You can download a PDF copy of the image here. We’re very proud of what we have achieved in this short time, in…
Over the holiday period, we tweeted links to some of the most well-read, quirky, interesting, and otherwise amazing F1000Research articles of 2014. If you missed our tweets, you can catch up with all of them in the Storify below. [View the story “A look back at 2014” on Storify]
