In theory, after the time and effort expended to get an article ready and polished for publication, it should be the point where you see the light at the end of the tunnel. However, in reality that’s not typically the case. Despite feeling the weight off your shoulders, you still need your article to comply…
Today, we are very excited to unveil the Preclinical Reproducibility and Robustness channel, a new dedicated venue for life scientists to publish and discuss confirmatory and non-confirmatory research results. We are also delighted to have this new channel championed by former Editor-in-Chief of Science magazine and F1000 International Advisory Board member, Bruce Alberts and Amgen’s…
Another guest post by Fiona Murphy about the previously mentioned project to give researchers credit for their data. Over the past few weeks, our project, ‘Giving Researchers Credit for their Data’ has continued to take shape. We held a meeting with key partners (Elsevier and ORCID) at the Jisc Headquarters and came away with some…
This is a guest post by Fiona Murphy, Project Manager for Giving Researchers Credit for their Data. “Researchers have too much to do, and too much of their work goes unrecognised. Tools like this will help to take the friction out of their daily lives and help them to share, improve and get credit for…
Next week (October 19 to 25) is Open Access Week, an annual event where institutes around the world organise events to discuss open access. You can find out about F1000Research at several Open Access Week events, including the following: University of Pittsburgh – Larry Kane is speaking about F1000Research on a panel on October 19,…
We are very excited to announce our latest collaboration here at F1000Research, which is with the excellent team at Dream Challenges. DREAM, which stands for Dialogue for Reverse Engineering Assessment and Methods, has led the way in innovating crowd sourced collaborations between academia, industry and not for profits to answer important biomedical questions that have…
Jason McDermott was one of the first people to publish online on F1000Research preliminary research methodology and data to gain peer reviews in the hope it would strengthen his R01 grant application (read about it here). Here he writes of his experience and how it went down with the grant reviewers. McDermott is a senior…
Today we are very excited to publish The ICR1000 UK exome series: a resource of gene variation in an outbred population a research article from Nazneen Rahman’s Lab at the Institute of Cancer Research, UK. The dataset described in the paper includes exome sequence data from 1,000 individuals of the general UK population where the…
Hot on the heels of announcing our first society channel with the ISCB, we are equally as delighted to reveal we will be partnering with the International Neuroinformatics Coordinating Facility (INCF) to publish a new channel called the INCF Community journal, which will launch in August [See press release]. Now becoming an established field that…
Last year, open science developer-advocate Jure Triglav wrote a post on how scientific figures should work in 2014. Jure went beyond encouraging the use of scientific figures that update in real-time, he created one on his blog; a neat graph that auto-plots the number of sun-mentioning tweets in the Bay Area against actual cloud coverage…
