This is a cross-post from our Naturally Selected blog. We’re pleased to announce that Bev Acreman has been appointed Commercial Director of F1000. Bev, who will take up the post at the beginning of April, was formerly Vice President of Marketing & Sales, Open Research, at Springer Nature – a global research, educational and professional…
We’re pleased to announce that Bev Acreman has been appointed Commercial Director of F1000. Bev, who will take up the post at the beginning of April, was formerly Vice President of Marketing & Sales, Open Research, at Springer Nature – a global research, educational and professional publisher. At Springer Nature, part of Bev’s role included…
This is a cross-post from our Naturally Selected blog. It’s award season again! And that means it’s time to announce the F1000 Specialist of the Year 2015. Last year was extremely busy for many F1000 Specialists, which made the decision even harder than in 2014. After a long round of deliberations, we’re pleased to highlight…
It’s award season again! And that means it’s time to announce the F1000 Specialist of the Year 2015. Last year was extremely busy for many of our F1000 Specialists, which made the decision even harder than in 2014. After a long round of deliberations, we’re pleased to highlight the achievements of five F1000 Specialists, one…
Fourteen medical journals have proposed expansive new data-sharing requirements for authors writing about clinical experiments. Voice your opinions here. The Wellcome Trust, the National Institutes of Health and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute have banded together to “unleash the power of open content and data to advance biomedical research!” Submit your proposal here and check out this…
The Wolf Prize in Israel and the Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize in Germany are both prestigious awards that are sometimes used as indicators of potential future chances of a Nobel Prize. We’re therefore very proud to find F1000 Faculty among this year’s winners of both prizes! Stuart Schreiber, Head of Faculty for Chemical…
The Peer Reviewers’ Openness Initiative, which lets reviewers sign a pledge to only review articles that are published according to open science standards, was mentioned in Times Higher Education. “Dutch EU presidency aims at open access to scientific journals“. The Netherlands have been ahead of the curve in terms of pushing for open access publishing,…
We regularly add new features to F1000Workspace – some big, some small. Here is a list of some of the updates to F1000Workspace in the last few months: Proxy support: If you access journal articles off-campus with a proxy, this now also works within F1000Workspace. Reading list: Have you saved an article but not yet…
F1000Research is one of the partners of Sense About Science’s “Nuts and Bolts” peer review workshops. Below is a report from the most recent workshop, written by Adam Field. Adam graduated from Newcastle University in Biomedical Sciences in 2013, before working at AstraZeneca for two years in Oncology. He recently joined Prof Peter Adams group at…
We are excited to announce that two of Europe’s bioinformatics titans have launched their own Open Science publishing channels on the F1000Research platform. The European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), an internationally renowned research center that is home to several key ‘big data’ repositories and Europe PMC, launched their Channel today. Its current aim is to collate…
