This blog post was co-written by Michael Markie (Associate Publisher at F1000Research) and Joao Peres (Product Manager at F1000).
We are very excited to announce that F1000Workspace is now compatible with Google Docs. This is something our development team have worked hard on implementing over the past few months and we believe it offers significant improvements for the efficiency and flow of writing scientific papers and grant proposals directly in the browser.
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…
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 publisher. At Springer Nature, part of Bev’s role included…
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…
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 of our F1000 Specialists, which made the decision even harder than in 2014. After a long round of deliberations, we’re pleased to highlight the achievements of five F1000 Specialists, one…
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…
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…
Today we are very excited to publish The ICR1000 UK exome series: a resource of gene variation in an outbred population a research article from Nazneen Rahman’s Lab at the Institute of Cancer Research, UK. The dataset described in the paper includes exome sequence data from 1,000 individuals of the general UK population where the…
For many, September signals the beginning of a new school year. Start the academic year as you mean to go on by keeping track of all your projects and reading lists with our suite of tools for writing, managing references and collaborating – F1000Workspace. Workspace can help you save articles as you browse with just…
