The Faculty of 1000 team had a great time attending the 2013 Charleston Conference. It was a pleasure to participate and meet lots of old and new faces at our vendor booth and cocktail hour. Iain H, our Outreach Director from London, flew over the pond to give two presentations. First, Iain talked about how…
Last week we announced our three distinct amendment options for F1000Research articles. One of the options is a ‘follow-up’ article, which has been designed for authors who have published a paper that would benefit from regular additions to ensure that the content is both current and relevant to its readers. The need for this type…
Organising a conference is no mean feat. In order to make a conference a success, an organising committee must invest a great deal of time and dedication to nurture the ‘perfect’ conference. The conference must be logistically sound, have an attractive and interactive itinerary whilst still allowing for socialising to encourage the exchanging of ideas.…
One of the main aims of F1000Researchis to have the raw data behind every research and data article we publish on display (we are the only life sciences journal that does this systematically). But publishing data is just the first step; we also want this data to be easy to discover and easy to use.…
F1000Research, one of a number of major open access journal launches in 2012, has been fortunate to have support from the life science community – for submitting papers and reviewing them. We’ve been thinking about the best ways to show our appreciation to the early adopters of F1000Research’s Open Science approach to publishing papers, data,…
Follow an article If a user of F1000Prime follows an article it means he or she will be alerted to new recommendations and dissenting opinions on the article and user comments. To follow an article, click ‘Save to MyF1000/Follow’ on any article page (see below), while logged in. F1000Prime authors – of published papers recommended…
What goes on behind closed doors in journal editorial offices is becoming more and more of a ‘hot topic’ as publications are encouraged to move towards open access, and authors seek justification for the amount they pay to publish their research. One particular issue brought to light by Ben Goldacre’s recent book, Bad Pharma, is…
We have been pleased to see that our novel referee process on F1000 Research generally seems to be working well (and fast), with many authors now revising their articles (see our first two revisions from Frederick Morfaw and Gavin Oliver). We have made a number of changes to our refereeing process over the past few…
We’re delighted to announce that F1000 Research and figshare have teamed up to build a widget for F1000 Research articles that enables users to preview, download, cite and share data in accompanying datasets, at the click of a button. You will be able to see this new tool for the first time in some of…
We are delighted to welcome on board an exceptional list of some of the biggest names across biology and medicine onto our F1000 Research Advisory Panel. Over the past couple of weeks, our panel has doubled in size to over 200 members, and I am sure most of you will recognise many of these individuals.…
