Open Science News – 29 May 2015

Neil Chue Hong crowdsourced a long list of all the journals in which you can publish software. Green or Gold? On their blogs, open access champions Michael Eisen and Mike Taylor debate what the future will look like. The inevitable failure of parasitic green open access, by Michael Eisen, and the response by Mike Taylor,…

F1000Prime Reports is migrating!

Since January 2009, F1000 Faculty Members have expanded on the literature coverage of F1000Prime by writing concise, peer-reviewed reviews on emerging concepts and recent advances in biology and medicine. These articles were published in the open-access journal F1000Prime Reports until now. However, in order to enable these articles to benefit from the unique open-access, open…

Launching F1000 Faculty Reviews channel

Behind everything at Faculty of 1000 (F1000) is the F1000 Faculty, comprising over 6,600 world-leading experts across more than 40 disciplines in the life sciences and medicine. The Faculty includes 10 Nobel Laureates, 16 Lasker Award winners, over 150 members of the National Academy of Sciences, and many others who have received prestigious awards for…

Infographic – stats on our publications to date

In January we celebrated the second anniversary of our launch. To mark the occasion, we looked backed on what we had achieved in the years since our launch, and gathered some stats in an infographic. As we continue to grow and develop our innovative publishing and peer review model, we thought we’d take a look…

New on F1000Research – 26 May 2015

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 A reanalysis of mouse ENCODE comparative gene expression data [v1; ref status: approved with reservations 1, https://f1000r.es/5ez] Yoav Gilad, Orna Mizrahi-Man In this article, which initiated as…

Open Science News – 22 May 2015

When will “open science” become simply “science”?  By Mick Watson in Genome Biology. Slides for a short course called “Open Science goes Geo”, which was presented at the European Geosciences Union General Assembly earlier this year, are available on Zenodo in three parts: Part I: Research Data, Part II: Scientific Software, Part III: Beyond Data…

Be the first to re-analyse the blind way

This is a call for researchers working on pain behaviours in rodents to publish an independent re- analysis of the blinded data in Morland et al. (2015) and to update their article following an unblinded analysis. One of the best safeguards against experimenter bias muddying results is to make sure the researcher doesn’t know which…

EMBO announces 2015 new members

EMBO today announced its new members for 2015. EMBO is an organization that aims to promote excellence in the life sciences, with over 1700 leading researchers. Among the 58 researchers honoured as members today, we are pleased to say that eight of these are F1000 Faculty. Please join us in congratulating these Faculty Members and…

New on F1000Research – 18 May 2015

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 Adherence to Artemisinin Combination Therapy for the treatment of uncomplicated malaria in the Democratic Republic of the Congo [v2; ref status: indexed, https://f1000r.es/596] M. Ruby Siddiqui,…