We are excited to announce that two of Europe’s bioinformatics titans have launched their own Open Science publishing channels on the F1000Research platform. The European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), an internationally renowned research center that is home to several key ‘big data’ repositories and Europe PMC, launched their Channel today. Its current aim is to collate…
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 channel The Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer (SITC) is a not-for-profit organization of medical professionals dedicated to improving patient outcomes by advancing the development, science and application of…
An article in PLOS Biology, and discussed on The Scientist, revealed that, of a random sample of over 400 articles in the biomedical literature, none provided access to all the data! The article is part of a new PLOS Collection on Meta-Research. But why share? Is open science the way forward? Daniel P. Newman asks…
If you follow us on Twitter you’ll have seen our account unseasonably active over the holiday period, as we tweeted our favourite articles, posters, slides, channels and referee reports of the past year. It was a busy year for us, where we merged with F1000Posters, started publishing F1000 Faculty Reviews (formerly F1000Prime Reports), launched many…
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 channel The International Symposium on Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis/ Motor Neurone Disease (ALS/MND) is the largest medical and scientific conference specific to MND. It is the premier event in…
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 channel The Desert Fishes Council is a nonprofit organization of scientists, managers, and citizens dedicated to preserving the biological integrity of desert aquatic ecosystems and their associated biota.…
Can open science help with public engagement of science? “Mapping the hinterland: Data issues in open science“, an article in Public Understanding of Science, explores this question. Nature Communications will start publishing the peer review histories of articles from January onward, unless the authors opt-out. In response to the above news, Leonid Schneider blogged about…
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 channel ELIXIR is the European life-science infrastructure for biological data. It brings together Europe’s major life-science data archives and, for the first time, connects these with national bioinformatics…
The open research value proposition: How sharing can help researchers succeed. This working paper by Erin McKiernan et al. is welcoming your feedback. Five selfish reasons to work reproducibly. Article in Genome Biology by Florian Markowetz. (“And so, my fellow scientists: ask not what you can do for reproducibility; ask what reproducibility can do for…
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 channel The NetBio Special interest Group (NetBio SIG) channel hosts posters and slides from NetBio SIG meetings that cover new developments in network biology, focusing on two major…
