Are you a researcher at King’s College London? King’s has purchased a block of pre-paid Article Processing Charges (APCs) for F1000Research, allowing a number of researchers to publish with us at no cost to them. If you would like to utilise this, please contact the library team who support open access via openaccess@kcl.ac.uk to confirm…
It is with sadness that we note the death of Dr Herbert Steinbeisser, who passed away having endured a long illness with bravery and strength. Dr Steinbeisser was a Faculty Member in the Developmental Biology Faculty from 2003. In an obituary [in German] posted by his colleagues at the Institute of Human Genetics, University Hospital…
Joan Brugge, one of our Section Heads for the Cell Biology Faculty, will receive the Susan G. Komen® Brinker Award for Scientific Distinction in Basic Science. This award is bestowed upon those whose work in breast cancer research provides significant contributions to the field, and it is separated into a basic science award, which Joan…
Securing a grant for scientific research is, more often than not, long, long-winded and by no means an easy feat. Recent Lasker award winner and F1000 IAB member Mary-Claire King‘s journey towards getting the grant that led to her discovery of the BRCA1 gene was a little more eventful than most. In a series of…
Björn Brembs is a leading practitioner of Open Science, with a history of not only publishing openly, but also freely sharing the highly specialized research software generated by his lab. Björn’s collaborator, Julien Colomb began developing code to allow the lab to publish their data concomitantly with the analyses. Taking the sharing of data and…
The Lasker Foundation awards, popularly known as the ‘American Nobels,’ one of the most prestigious honours in science and medicine, were announced today. we are extremely pleased to congratulate F1000 Faculty Peter Walter and Mary-Claire King for winning awards! Mary-Claire King, is American Cancer Society Professor in the Department of Medicine and the Department of…
A selection of new and featured content on F1000Research from the past week. To receive notification of all new articles, sign up for our table of contents alerts. Featured article collection The Elasmobranch Biology & Conservation Collection acts as a scholarly hub for original research, ecologically important observations, data sets, computational tools and commentaries relating to sharks,…
Here are this week’s most popular tweets on the @F1000 feed, as well as some other interesting picks from the rest of Twitter…
Some quick links from this week’s news in Open Science: A Creative Commons guide to sharing your science. By Puneet Kishor of Creative Commons. How being online changes how we think about the traditional research paper. By Shauna Gordon-McKeon on OpenSource.com US agency updates rules on sharing genomic data. By Richard van Noorden in Nature…
Did you know that F1000Research staff regularly attend conferences and visit universities? Our September schedule includes visits to institutes and meetings in Hong Kong/China, the UK, US, France, and Germany. Come say hello if you’re nearby! September 7-10: European Conference on Computational Biology, Strasbourg – Michaela Torkar (Editorial Director) September 8: Chinese University of Hong…
