Earlier this week I attended (and spoke at) a workshop about publication bias, organised by NC3Rs – the National Centre for the Replacement, Refinement & Reduction of Animals in Research. This group is interested in the publication bias issue because using animals in research adds an extra responsibility to publish all of the results of…
Today, we are very pleased to highlight some exciting new data with regards to genome sequencing. We have just published a short research paper from the Bader lab at the University of Toronto providing the first public example of the Oxford MinION nanopore sequencer being evaluated for utility in the clinic. For those not familiar…
Beat Ebola with better research sharing, says the discoverer of virus.
To continue our series of “What is…” posts, we’re focusing on open data. Previous posts in this series covered open access, open peer review and post-publication peer review. Open data in science “Open data” is a broad concept that doesn’t just apply to research data, but also to, for example, the opening up of…
Björn Brembs is a leading practitioner of Open Science, with a history of not only publishing openly, but also freely sharing the highly specialized research software generated by his lab. Björn’s collaborator, Julien Colomb began developing code to allow the lab to publish their data concomitantly with the analyses. Taking the sharing of data and…
What was new in open science this week? F1000 Specialist extraordinaire Ross Mounce is at it again! Check out his interview at opensource.com on why Open Science is the future of scientific discovery. As divided as it is, even the US Congress is concerned about reproducibility in research! We might not all be (Isaac) Newtons…
What was new in open science this week? A few days ago Neil Hall published this paper on Genome Biology calling for a new index to measure social media impact of scientists. What he didn’t expect was that his comment would spawn #AlternateScienceMetrics. Have a look at fellow F1000 Specialist Graham Steel’s excellent Storify. We recently published…
Erin McKiernan is a researcher in experimental and computational neuroscience. You can follow her on Twitter @emckiernan13 F1000Research is the first journal that goes beyond open access, by practicing both open data sharing and open peer review. Sharing information in an open manner leads to a better scholarly environment by, among other things, promoting collaborations…
We have all heard people repeatedly pointing out that scholarly publishing has hardly changed since the first scientific journal article in 1665 and is still done largely within the constraints of a printing press. This is true on many levels including the humble figure. The latest article published in F1000Research by Björn Brembs and colleagues…
What was new in open science this week? Let’s admit it, as scientists we will “hack” anything in order to get the job done! Check out what Prof. Joshua Pearce (Michigan Tech) is doing with 3D printers! Have a “hack” of your own? Submit it to the F1000Specialists video competition! F1000Research Advisory Board Member, and F1000 Specialist Bjorn Brembs presents…
