With regret, we mark the death of Dr Tony Pawson. Tony was a research leader at the Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute and Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto, Canada. He joined us as a Head of Faculty in Cell Biology in 2001, right from the beginning of the Faculty of 1000 project. Many have paid tribute, not…
Over the past months, we’ve been discussing the publication of negative results, and some of the obstacles that prevent people from publishing them. While we’re happy to publish papers based on negative results, not everyone can find the time to write them up. A Dutch funding agency is now giving out grants specifically to fund…
Here are this week’s most popular tweets from the @F1000 feed, as well as the other interesting stories we spotted on Twitter…
All articles published in Public Library of Science (PLOS) journals that have been recommended in F1000Prime – more than 3000 articles – now include the F1000Prime recommended badge and score. PLOS have added F1000Prime scores to their sophisticated suite of article-level metrics (ALMs), which helps give authors of important articles more information on the impact…
We cover all areas of life sciences, but we know that different fields each have their own unique characteristics, and some features of our journal are of particular interest to certain disciplines. For the coming months, one area we’ll be focussing on is ecology. To encourage ecologists to try F1000Research, we’re waiving the article processing…
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.…
Faculty of 1000 today launches the beta version of a new service, F1000Trials, which is currently freely available to all registered users. In this post we explain the need for this new publishing service, what the key features are, and who should use it. Read the press release here. Are we at tipping point for…
Mautusi Mitra’s lab recently characterized two novel Chlamydomonas mutants that are defective in chlorophyll biosynthesis. You can read both her papers on F1000Research, but in this video she provides a quick summary of the work: In the video, Mitra also outlines the main reasons for submitting these papers to F1000Research, transcribed below. Speed was an…
Here are this week’s most popular tweets from @F1000, as well as some other interesting picks we spotted on Twitter…
A few months ago, we announced a grace period to submit your negative results papers for free until the end of August. The news spread far and wide, and we’ve had amazing feedback. Many of you were relieved to know that there *is* a home for negative results, and you agreed with us that all…
