Integrated development raises a lot of questions. Tessa Ahner-McHaffie and colleagues from FH360 tried to answer some of these in a Systematic Review published on Gates Open Research and currently being peer reviewed. In this guest blog, she describes the work that her and colleagues have done in exploring the evidence around this area of development work.
Karolina Wartolowska explains the importance of blinding and shares the methods used to imitate audio, visual and physical cues to reduce bias during surgical trials
In June, we asked researchers to show us their code and send us their latest Software Tool Articles. Hollydawn Murray, Publishing Editor for F1000Research, shares with you highlights from some of the 16 new articles published since then. The tools cover a wide range of subjects in life sciences and medicine written in various programming languages.
The Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials (CONSORT) are guidelines to facilitate transparent and unbiased reporting of randomized controlled trials (RCTs). Adherence to CONSORT guidelines ensures the inclusion of key information, so that readers can properly assess the validity and generalizability of RCTs and apply it to their patient population. The inclusion of key information so…
Our Managing Director, Rebecca Lawrence, announces another new publication platform – AAS Open Research – in partnership with the African Academy of Sciences. Rebecca sets out how this new platform could bring about a transformation in how the African research community works.
With new evidence showing the influencing role biological factors have on the status of our mental health, we explore the role our immune system has on our mind.
Gates Open Research, a new publication platform for grantees of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, has published its first articles this week. One of the first articles to be published there is by Lisa Reimer and colleagues. Here, she describes their work in monitoring pathogens present in mosquitoes from their feces captured using a superhydrophobic cone and why they chose to publish on Gates Open Research.
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.
