New on F1000Research – 5 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 I drink for my liver, Doc: emerging evidence that coffee prevents cirrhosis [v1; ref status: indexed, https://f1000r.es/59o] Jordan J. Feld, Élise G. Lavoie, Fausther Michel, Jonathan A…

Open Science News – 1 May 2015

Earlier this week, the Advancing Research Communication & Scholarship conference took place in Philadelphia. Here, Paige Brown moderated a roundtable on Socializing Scholarly Communication, with Lou Woodley, Erin McKiernan and Ivan Oransky. On the BioMedCentral blog, Stephanie Harriman wrote a summary of another ARCScon panel, on Righting Peer Review. You can find more tweets/slides/thoughts from…

F1000Research to publish the ISCB Community Journal

This week we are very excited to announce our first publishing partnership with a prestigious academic society. From July, the International Society of Computational Biology (ISCB) will have its own dedicated channel on F1000Research for the ISCB Community Journal. [See press release]. F1000 has always had a fruitful relationship with the computational biology community, and…

On the road again – #F1000Tour

May not represent our actual mode of transportation.   We regularly visit our users and other scientists in their institutes or at conferences. Since we have a lot of visits coming up, in five countries, it’s time again for an “F1000 tour” post, so you can find out exactly where we’ll be the coming weeks.…

On the road again – #F1000Tour

We regularly visit our users and other scientists in their institutes or at conferences. Since we have a lot of visits coming up, in five countries, it’s time again for an “F1000 tour” post, so you can find out exactly where we’ll be the coming weeks. This post will be updated throughout May as more…

Rashad Massoud: public health in action

Rashad Massoud has been a Faculty Member in the Public Health faculty since 2005. He visited the F1000 offices last week, and spoke to us about his public health work for the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) around the globe. He advocates applying the science of epidemiology in order to strengthen and improve…

Tudor Badea: retinal ganglion cell research

Tudor Badea, Faculty Member in Neuroscience, is a neuroscientist at the National Eye Institute at the NIH in Bethesda. Recently, F1000 Publisher Kathleen Wets visited him, and took this video of him talking about his research into ascertaining how retinal ganglion cells, cells that transmit the signal from the eye to the brain, participate in…

New on F1000Research – 27 April 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 Last week we published the first ever “living figure” that includes data from several labs, allowing researchers to collaborate on a publication. In this article by Colomb…

Open Science News – 24 April 2015

Yesterday and today the FOSTER-UNESCO Open Science for Doctoral Schools meeting took place in Paris. Attendees have been tweeting using the #OpenSci4Doc hashtag. Digital Science has been busy: Here’s a summary of their “Shaking It Up: Challenges and Solutions in Scholarly Information Management” event in San Francisco earlier this week, and an announcement of an…