The Peer Reviewers’ Openness Initiative asks reviewers to consider whether the paper they are reviewing is sufficiently open, and refuse to review articles that won’t allow access to underlying data. Darren Boehning didn’t get funding for a BRCA1 research project, so he put the proposal on his blog ready for anyone else to pick up…
This week the World Health Organisation (WHO) released the most comprehensive report to date on the state of foodborne illness worldwide; one of the key papers presenting the data and results that contributed to the report has just been published in F1000Research. The WHO report, titled ‘Estimates of the Global Burden of Foodborne Diseases’, presents…
Harriet Dashnow is a Bioinformatician and PhD candidate at Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Royal Children’s Hospital, in Melbourne. She has several posters on F1000Research, and we asked her about her experiences with sharing posters, and about her work. Why do you share your posters on F1000research? I upload my posters because I want to increase…
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 Don’t forget that you can submit antibody validations for free throughout 2015! If you’re working with antibodies, you can publish the results of the tests you did…
A team of biohackers is developing the first open source protocol to produce insulin simply and economically. They’re crowdfunding on experiment, with 7 days left! Open science versus commercialization: a modern research conflict? All the talks from OpenCon are now on YouTube. Most of the OpenCon satellite events have now taken place, but Berlin’s is…
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 new Critical Care channel offers a platform for publishing research and debate across the broad field of acute care and emergency medicine. In addition, the channel…
This week’s open science news includes a lot of great reading material, so grab a hot drink of choice and start your weekend with some articles and blog posts. “We have arrived at the juncture where medicine and science need new vehicles for the dissemination of knowledge” writes Harlan Krumholz in an editorial called The…
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 Technologies such as Docker are now establishing themselves as a lightweight solution to packaging applications together with their dependencies, solving a range of problems from reproducible research…
OpenCon is almost upon us! If you’re not attending the main event in Brussels, check the site for a local event near you, or watch the livestream this weekend. You can find some of us at the London satellite event next week! Mendeley launched Mendeley Data, a new place where you can share your research…
Another guest post by Fiona Murphy about the previously mentioned project to give researchers credit for their data. Over the past few weeks, our project, ‘Giving Researchers Credit for their Data’ has continued to take shape. We held a meeting with key partners (Elsevier and ORCID) at the Jisc Headquarters and came away with some…
