To continue our series of “What is…” posts, we’re focusing on open data. Previous posts in this series covered open access, open peer review and post-publication peer review. Open data in science “Open data” is a broad concept that doesn’t just apply to research data, but also to, for example, the opening up of…
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 peer review report Each week we feature a peer review report on the front page of our website. This week’s report, by Sam Schwarzkopf, is a critical report, but highlights…
We are delighted to congratulate Edvard Moser, F1000Prime Faculty Member in the Neuroscience Faculty, on receiving the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Professor Moser is a founding director of The Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience and Centre for the Biology of Memory (KI/CBM) at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, and has…
Here are this week’s most popular tweets on the @F1000 feed, as well as some other interesting picks from the rest of Twitter…
This week’s news in Open Science A special issue of Learned Publishing is all about data publishing. We contributed one of the articles, but you should read them all, or at least this one from the British Ecological Society, about their experiences with mandated data archiving. Do you have the skills to fight Ebola? If…
Our latest #F1000Talks tweetchat, about rare disease research, was a great success. We heard from researchers, patient advocates, and others, got everyone’s thoughts on the Ice Bucket Challenge, saw new collaborations and ideas form on the spot, and learned that the best incentive for data sharing is….cake. Follow along with the tweets below, sorted…
As it’s International Coffee Day today, it seems appropriate to highlight the plethora of research papers highlighted on F1000Prime that examine the benefits (or not) of coffee. And there are many, as a simple search of the F1000Prime site reveals. Indeed, not only may coffee reduce the risk of urolithiasis, it could also provide some…
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: Electrical maturation of neurons derived from human embryonic stem cells [v1; ref status: indexed, https://f1000r.es/42n] Michael Telias, Menahem Segal, Ben-Yosef Dalit Researchers at Tel Aviv University developed a method to…
Here are this week’s most popular tweets on the @F1000 feed, as well as some other interesting picks from the rest of Twitter…
In anticipation of the Nobel prizes next month, last week the Annals of Improbable Research awarded the 2014 Ig Nobel Prizes. The Ig Nobels aim to honour “achievements that first make people laugh, and then make them think.” This year’s winner are no exception, with studies such as the solemnly named “Nasal Packing With Strips…
