It’s been a long winter and although Mother Nature has started warming up this floating blue marble (for the northern hemisphere at least), we are eager to hit the road in search of a warmer climate, sans winter coats. In support of F1000Workspace – our exclusive user-friendly software that helps with writing, collaborating, reference management and manuscript preparation – we will be visiting the Los Angeles area in time for the 60th Annual Meeting of the Biophysical Society.
Conference season is fast approaching so we will be highlighting some of the interesting posters and slides that are submitted to us throughout the year. With the recent global outbreaks of Ebola and Zika, there is a need to strengthen surveillance of emerging and re-emerging communicable diseases. Earlier detection of fast spreading disease-related threats, will…
Note: the author has done extensive research and tested all methods below in the process of writing this blog. Therefore this blog actually made it out in February as opposed to some time later this year…
We are now well into the New Year. You may have started out with many good resolutions; maybe you have joined the gym, given up smoking, started running or cycling to the lab. You have probably told yourself that this year, you will give up procrastinating, and you will finish that paper/grant proposal/your thesis….
This week we have cobbled together an easily digestible edition of our Open Science News in the Storify below; perfect to have with your morning cup of coffee. ENJOY. [View the story “Here are some of the latest stories in #openscience for the week of 15th of February, 2016” on Storify]
In theory, after the time and effort expended to get an article ready and polished for publication, it should be the point where you see the light at the end of the tunnel. However, in reality that’s not typically the case. Despite feeling the weight off your shoulders, you still need your article to comply…
F1000, together with a number of leading global health funding organizations, NGOs, institutions and other publishers have signed a joint declaration on data sharing in public health emergencies, which has just been issued. The declaration was prompted by a consensus statement following an WHO consultation in September last year; the lack of rapid data sharing…
Original research articles with one author – particularly in the life sciences – are increasingly rare, and the concept of ‘authorship’ in science has become outdated. Adopting a simple taxonomy of terms to describe the contributions to a published work could enable a range of benefits to all the stakeholders in research – most particularly…
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…
