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.
Our Managing Director, Rebecca Lawrence, announces our first publication platform on behalf of a public funder – Ireland’s Health Research Board. She reflects on the leadership being shown by the funders we work with and how the growing number of publication platforms is beginning to open up wider discussions.
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…
“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…
Eleanor-Rose Begg, from F1000Research, talks about exercise, both the benefits of keeping fit and the potential risks for extreme sport participants.
Kevin J. Black is an advisor for the F1000Research Tics collection. This collection provides a single portal to all the best research and clinical information on tics and tic disorders. Kevin gives us some background on Tourette Syndrome and the current research in this area. Georges A. E. B. Gilles de la Tourette was a…
Claire Turner and Kalipso Chalkidou from Global Health and Development Group introduce iDSI, the International Decision Support Initiative, a gateway to share technical knowledge of health economics and stakeholder management to help low and middle income countries transition towards more effective healthcare systems.
