This Halloween we asked around the F1000 office for chilling tales in the laboratory.
Expanding on their recent post on the Center for Global Development’s Global Health Policy Blog, Amanda Glassman and Rebecca Forman talk about the new book on Health Benefits Package design and the accompanying policy brief published on the iDSI Knowledge Gateway.
We end Open Access week by talking to Jennifer Hansen, Senior Program Officer & Ashley Farley, Associate Program Officer from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation who work on Gates Open Research and the foundation’s open access program.
In this Q&A, Martin Elliott, Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery at University College London (UCL) and an Advisory Board Member for UCL Child Health Open Research platform, shares his views on open access, anticipating an increase in its use by institutions and grant-giving bodies, and explains how this could improve trust and transparency in the scientific community.
We interviewed Carolina Ramirez Santana, a researcher working on auto-immune diseases, and the Lab Co-ordinator of the Translational Medicine Research Group at Centro de Estudio de Enfermedades Autoimmunes, Colombia. She discusses open access, lack of funding, and explains the challenges to disseminate research on theinternational stage for researchers in Colombia.
Nazneen Rahman, Head of the Division of Genetics and Epidemiology at The Institute of Cancer Research and a member of the Advisory Board for Wellcome Open Research, shares her thoughts on open access and the value in sharing every piece of information.
This morning the dev team at F1000Workspace is abuzz with the update to HTTPS, which means all our users’ interactions are encrypted. It was a big task and a lot of effort went into making sure that the release went smoothly and on time. This and a host of other updates have taken place on…
The dogwhelk Nucella lapillus is a common predatory snail from North Atlantic rocky intertidal habitats that consumes barnacles and mussels. The snail forages when submerged by water and hides inside its shell during low tides. Shell color varies among dogwhelk individuals. Brown and white are common colors. As dogwhelks can easily be collected during low…
“I got rhythm,…”, following this year’s Nobel Prize for Medicine awarded for insights into organisms’ 24 hour rhythm driven by the circadian clock, we look at the recommended research on internal biological clocks and regulation of daily cycles, such as sleep patterns and feeding behaviour. Jeffrey C Hall, Michael Rosbash and Michael W Young are…
In a series of blog posts, we answer your frequently asked questions about F1000Workspace. If you have other questions please do drop us a line on feedback@f1000.com or tweet us at @F1000Workspace – we will respond directly and they could end up appearing on a future blog! F1000Workspace helps you discover and save relevant articles…
