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 gateway University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG) is one of the largest hospitals in the Netherlands, and they have a gateway on F1000Research to showcase their research output. Research…
The entire editorial board of a top linguistics journal quits in protest of Elsevier policies, and is starting a new open access journal. This weekend, keep an eye on the #MozOpenSci tag on Twitter. It’s the hashtag for the Open Science Track of the annual Mozilla Festival. The week after that is OpenCon, which will…
We have a flurry of announcements of interest to all scientists who create or use academic software as part of their research activities (so basically everyone): We recently strengthened our stance on software availability to better align with our Open Science principles. Now, the source code underlying any newly presented software must be made publically…
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 RPackage channel brings together all of the F1000Research articles describing new R packages that are applicable to the life sciences. R is the statistical language +…
The schedule for the open science track of the Mozilla Festival is up. The festival will take place on November 6-8 in London, and tickets are still available (and give you access to all the other tracks as well, just in case three parallel streams of open science aren’t enough). Later in November, the 7th…
This is a guest post by Fiona Murphy, Project Manager for Giving Researchers Credit for their Data. “Researchers have too much to do, and too much of their work goes unrecognised. Tools like this will help to take the friction out of their daily lives and help them to share, improve and get credit 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 Biochemical Society exists for the advancement of the molecular and cellular biosciences, both as an academic discipline and to promote its impact on areas of science…
This week was Open Access Week! Here’s our post of the F1000Research activities. The NIH partnered with the Wellcome Trust on an Open Science prize. Up to six teams of technology experts and researchers stand to win $80,000 each to develop their ideas into a prototype or to advance an existing early stage prototype. 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 The Nanopore analysis channel aims to be a resource for rapid publication of nanopore data, analysis and benchmarking results, in order to help drive forward the analysis…
“Open peer review produces better scrutiny of research than traditional methods.” Copernicus journals are changing the way by which articles go through their publication system. Yhey’re still using open post-publication peer review, don’t worry! It’s a matter of presentation style only. The Natural History Museum in London is publishing a data portal which “will develop…
