This week we have cobbled together an easily digestible edition of our Open Science News in the Storify below; perfect to have with your morning cup of coffee. ENJOY. [View the story “Here are some of the latest stories in #openscience for the week of 15th of February, 2016” on Storify]
In theory, after the time and effort expended to get an article ready and polished for publication, it should be the point where you see the light at the end of the tunnel. However, in reality that’s not typically the case. Despite feeling the weight off your shoulders, you still need your article to comply…
F1000, together with a number of leading global health funding organizations, NGOs, institutions and other publishers have signed a joint declaration on data sharing in public health emergencies, which has just been issued. The declaration was prompted by a consensus statement following an WHO consultation in September last year; the lack of rapid data sharing…
Today, we are very excited to unveil the Preclinical Reproducibility and Robustness channel, a new dedicated venue for life scientists to publish and discuss confirmatory and non-confirmatory research results. We are also delighted to have this new channel championed by former Editor-in-Chief of Science magazine and F1000 International Advisory Board member, Bruce Alberts and Amgen’s…
On February 1st 2016, the WHO declared the recent, unexpected surge in microcephaly and Guillain-Barré syndrome cases in South and Central America a global public health emergency. Although the cause has not been definitively identified, the evidence is mounting against the flavivirus Zika. On February 2nd, F1000Research launched Zika & Arbovirus Outbreaks, an Open Science…
This is a cross-post from our Naturally Selected blog. We’re pleased to announce that Bev Acreman has been appointed Commercial Director of F1000. Bev, who will take up the post at the beginning of April, was formerly Vice President of Marketing & Sales, Open Research, at Springer Nature – a global research, educational and professional…
This is a cross-post from our Naturally Selected blog. It’s award season again! And that means it’s time to announce the F1000 Specialist of the Year 2015. Last year was extremely busy for many F1000 Specialists, which made the decision even harder than in 2014. After a long round of deliberations, we’re pleased to highlight…
Fourteen medical journals have proposed expansive new data-sharing requirements for authors writing about clinical experiments. Voice your opinions here. The Wellcome Trust, the National Institutes of Health and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute have banded together to “unleash the power of open content and data to advance biomedical research!” Submit your proposal here and check out this…
The Peer Reviewers’ Openness Initiative, which lets reviewers sign a pledge to only review articles that are published according to open science standards, was mentioned in Times Higher Education. “Dutch EU presidency aims at open access to scientific journals“. The Netherlands have been ahead of the curve in terms of pushing for open access publishing,…
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 Adam Field. Adam graduated from Newcastle University in Biomedical Sciences in 2013, before working at AstraZeneca for two years in Oncology. He recently joined Prof Peter Adams group at…
