How can we use open science to make science more “public-friendly”? Matteo Cantiello has some suggestions. Svetlana Belkin launched the Open Undergrad Research Foundation (OpenURF), but is looking for someone to help her run it. See the OpenURF blog for details on what she needs help with. This is not new, but we found it…
As of this week, we have merged our repository of conference posters and slides, F1000Posters, into our open science publishing platform, F1000Research. We think that all scientific findings should be shared, regardless of perceived impact or format. It therefore makes much more sense to have all our content, whether it be articles, posters or slides,…
A selection of new content on F1000Research from the past week. To receive notification of all new articles, sign up for our table of contents alerts. Featured channel All Trials Matter is a channel dedicated to all clinical trials, providing a platform for researchers and clinicians to share all information on abandoned and current…
The trending article recommendations on the @F1000 feed this week, as well as interesting picks from the science Twittersphere.
Greece has lost access to a large amount of academic journals, now that a main academic portal has closed due to lack of funding. This is the kind of thing that open science can prevent! Meanwhile, elsewhere in Europe, Dutch academics are standing up to Elsevier and are planning a boycott. The national association of…
A number of our Faculty and International Advisory Board Members have received awards lately – congrats to all on these wonderful achievements! Dame Kay Davies, an International Advisory Board Member since 2011, has been awarded the American Society of Human Genetics’ (ASHG) William Allan Award. The award recognizes substantial and far-reaching scientific contributions to human…
The F1000 Faculty Reviews channel was launched last month, containing exclusively reviews written by members of the F1000 Faculty (previously published under the F1000Prime Reports journal). Vijay Kuchroo and Youjin Lee (both from Harvard Medical School) were one of the first authors to publish articles in the channel. In this interview below, we asked them…
We welcome William (Bill) Catterall to F1000 as a Head of Faculty for Pharmacology & Drug Discovery. Professor Catterall joins fellow Heads of Faculty Floyd Bloom, Paul Insel and Leslie Iversen in this role. Catterall is a professor and chair at the University of Washington, and a Member of the National Academy of Sciences and…
The F1000 Faculty Reviews channel was officially launched last month, the articles being previously published on the F1000Prime Reports journal. One of the first articles to be published on the channel was by James Russell, a Professor of Medicine at the University of British Columbia and an F1000 Section Head in Critical Care & Emergency…
A selection of new content on F1000Research from the past week. To receive notification of all new articles, sign up for our table of contents alerts. Featured article Personal attributes of authors and reviewers, social bias and the outcomes of peer review: a case study [v2; ref status: indexed, https://f1000r.es/5gj] Richard Walker, Beatriz Barros, Ricardo…
