Gates Open Research, a new publication platform for grantees of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, has published its first articles this week. One of the first articles to be published there is by Lisa Reimer and colleagues. Here, she describes their work in monitoring pathogens present in mosquitoes from their feces captured using a superhydrophobic cone and why they chose to publish on Gates Open Research.
A citizen science project carried out by the Hackuarium Association investigated the genome of various beers. The results of this work were published as as a Data Note on F1000Research. Jonthan Sobel explains what the thinking behind this project and what they found.
This Halloween we asked around the F1000 office for chilling tales in the laboratory.
Expanding on their recent post on the Center for Global Development’s Global Health Policy Blog, Amanda Glassman and Rebecca Forman talk about the new book on Health Benefits Package design and the accompanying policy brief published on the iDSI Knowledge Gateway.
We end Open Access week by talking to Jennifer Hansen, Senior Program Officer & Ashley Farley, Associate Program Officer from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation who work on Gates Open Research and the foundation’s open access program.
In this Q&A, Martin Elliott, Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery at University College London (UCL) and an Advisory Board Member for UCL Child Health Open Research platform, shares his views on open access, anticipating an increase in its use by institutions and grant-giving bodies, and explains how this could improve trust and transparency in the scientific community.
Our Managing Director, Rebecca Lawrence, announces our first publication platform on behalf of a public funder – Ireland’s Health Research Board. She reflects on the leadership being shown by the funders we work with and how the growing number of publication platforms is beginning to open up wider discussions.
We interviewed Carolina Ramirez Santana, a researcher working on auto-immune diseases, and the Lab Co-ordinator of the Translational Medicine Research Group at Centro de Estudio de Enfermedades Autoimmunes, Colombia. She discusses open access, lack of funding, and explains the challenges to disseminate research on theinternational stage for researchers in Colombia.
Nazneen Rahman, Head of the Division of Genetics and Epidemiology at The Institute of Cancer Research and a member of the Advisory Board for Wellcome Open Research, shares her thoughts on open access and the value in sharing every piece of information.
This morning the dev team at F1000Workspace is abuzz with the update to HTTPS, which means all our users’ interactions are encrypted. It was a big task and a lot of effort went into making sure that the release went smoothly and on time. This and a host of other updates have taken place on…
