This week, we’ve been posting about negative results on Twitter, and were joined by others who support the cause for the publication of negative results. Most notably, Nik Papageorgiou drew an amazing comic, which received a lot of attention, and even made it to WordPress.com’s “Freshly Pressed” highlights section! It was great to see so…
A round-up of the most popular Tweets from @F1000 as well as some other interesting picks from the past week on Twitter…
Today we are launching a project that will greatly improve how life scientists and clinicians connect with F1000 services globally – and locally – and will give scientists interested in scholarly communication some exciting new opportunities and recognition. This initiative, called F1000 Specialists, will allow enthusiastic users of F1000 services to become official, local representatives…
This is a guest post written by Associate Faculty Member Michael Verwey. Michael works with Faculty Member Shimon Amir in the Physiology Faculty. Earlier this year, Michael won one of the 2012 AFM travel grants – each winner receives $250 towards attending a scientific conference of their choice.
When we announced our campaign to waive the article processing fee for negative results articles until the end of August, we published a press release with a quote from Ben Goldacre, who has been fighting publication bias in medical research and clinical trials. He has talked about the issue in his book Bad Pharma and…
The most popular tweets from the @F1000 Twitter feed and a particularly geeky cake…
It is with great sadness that we note the tragic death of Professor Roger Brumback, former Faculty Member in Neurological Disorders, who passed away last month. Professor Brumback was professor and former chairman of the department of Pathology at Creighton University, and joined F1000Prime in March 2011 as a member of the Developmental & Pediatric…
We’re pleased to announce an agreement with the Westchester Academic Library Directors Organization (WALDO), that provides their members with the opportunity to obtain institutional subscriptions to F1000Prime. Supporting over 1,000 member libraries, WALDO offers consortial discounts for over 10,000 products and services. For more information, please visit https://waldolib.org. We’ll be hosting a webinar for WALDO…
We recently came across The Paper Rejection Repository on the website of Niko Grigorieff’s group at Brandeis University. On this page, he showed from which journals some published papers had previously been rejected, and includes the rejection letters. We invited Niko to share some more details about this project in this guest post: My lab…
A couple of weeks ago, we interviewed F1000Research author Joel Huberman about his experiences with our journal. He published an article about the control of timing of telomere replication in fission yeast. In this study, he set out to investigate whether fission yeast telomere replication is similar to that of budding yeast, where replication timing…
