This is the third in a series of posts in which we go into more detail about some of the concepts that F1000Research is based on. In previous installments, we looked at open access and open peer review. Here, we turn to post-publication peer review. What are the different types of post-publication peer review and…
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: Vitellogenin family gene expression does not increase Drosophila lifespan or fecundity [v1; ref status: indexed, https://f1000r.es/3ac] Yingxue Ren, Kimberly A. Hughes Vitellogenin (Vg), a yolk protein precursor…
What was new in open science this week? Are you a researcher in Germany? This survey asks how you are using online tools in your research. Want to help make science more open? Mozilla is hosting a Global Sprint on July 22 and 23. You can find more info in the notes for the planning…
Here are the week’s most popular tweets from @F1000, as well as other interesting picks from the rest of Twitter…
Professor Sir Michael Marmot, our Head of Faculty in Public Health, will be interviewed by Kirsty Young on BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs this Sunday. Sir Michael is Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health at University College London and has spent his career investigating the key factors in leading a long and healthy life,…
It’s now been more than five months since Obokata et al. published the two “Stimulus-triggered fate conversion of somatic cells into pluripotency” or ‘STAP cell’ papers in Nature that would cause such soul-searching in the scientific community. We first covered the controversy surrounding the papers, and how it was reflected in the recommendations and dissents…
The Shaw Prize was established in 2002 by the Hong Kong philanthropist Sir Run Run Shaw to recognize individuals who have made “outstanding contributions in academic and scientific research”. The prize is awarded annually in three categories, Astronomy, Life Science and Medicine, and Mathematical Sciences, and comes with a monetary award of one million…
Today F1000Research is very excited to announce the launch of the Cytoscape App Collection which consists of 16 new articles and an overarching editorial. Building upon the success of the BioJS Collection published earlier this year, our latest collection is a collaboration with Cytoscape, the open source software platform for visualizing complex networks. The collection…
Last week, we held a focus group with local scientists at our New York City office to discuss their experiences with reference management systems and give them a preview of F1000’s newest features in development. Here is a Storify of how the evening went down. Thanks to everyone who attended!
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: Yeast Augmented Network Analysis (YANA): a new systems approach to identify therapeutic targets for human genetic diseases [v1; ref status: indexed, https://f1000r.es/3gk] David J. Wiley, Ilona…
