Next week (October 19 to 25) is Open Access Week, an annual event where institutes around the world organise events to discuss open access. You can find out about F1000Research at several Open Access Week events, including the following: University of Pittsburgh – Larry Kane is speaking about F1000Research on a panel on October 19,…
Today marks a very exciting milestone for F1000Research: we have just published the 1,000th article! What’s more, the 9,000th poster will be published this week, and 700 of the 1,000 published papers have passed peer review and are indexed in PubMed. The 1,000 articles published in F1000Research were contributed by 3,798 authors, openly peer-reviewed by 2,061…
We are very excited to announce our latest collaboration here at F1000Research, which is with the excellent team at Dream Challenges. DREAM, which stands for Dialogue for Reverse Engineering Assessment and Methods, has led the way in innovating crowd sourced collaborations between academia, industry and not for profits to answer important biomedical questions that have…
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 This new channel will publish peer-reviewed method articles from the groups involved in DREAM Challenges. These challenges pose fundamental questions about systems biology and translational medicine. Designed…
The 2nd altmetrics conference took place in Amsterdam earlier this week. You can find tweets from the meeting with hashtag #2AMconf Speaking of altmetrics, Authorea introduces two new altmetrics for open science: The Open Science Index (OSI) and the Collaborative Open Science Index (COSI). Congratulations to Richard Smith-Unna, Christie Bahlai, Joey Lee and Jason Bobe,…
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 European Conference on Visual Perception is an annual meeting devoted to scientific study of human visual perception. ECVP has been held each year since 1978, and…
This week was the inaugural Peer Review Week, with tweets under the #PeerRevwk15. F1000Research published our own compilation of useful peer review blogs here. A new study published by BMJ Open showed that open peer review is superior to a closed model Researchers shared their open science stories on the Winnower, for example, “How becoming…
This week F1000Research joins ORCID, ScienceOpen, Wiley, and the wider scientific community in a new initiative aimed at showcasing peer review: Peer Review Week! This virtual event highlights the fundamental importance of peer review in science and promotes the many different forms it can take across the scientific spectra. At F1000Research we’re proudly celebrating 3 years of…
Jason McDermott was one of the first people to publish online on F1000Research preliminary research methodology and data to gain peer reviews in the hope it would strengthen his R01 grant application (read about it here). Here he writes of his experience and how it went down with the grant reviewers. McDermott is a senior…
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 Bioconductor is an open-source, open-development software project for the analysis and comprehension of high-throughput data in biology. Its aim is to enable interdisciplinary research through collaborative and…
