This past Wednesday, March 19th we had our third #F1000Talks tweet chat installment where we discussed science and researcher diversity. The discussion was a fast-paced one, full of great ideas and advice from all of our participants. Be sure to join us again in April for another exciting afternoon! We will announce the topic and special guests shortly. In the…
As you know, at F1000Research we ask that all authors include all data with their publications. But why share data? What are the benefits? In one example, below, Michael R. Hunsaker shares his successful story of getting a publication based on data that were shared by another lab, after they first used his data. Do…
Our commitment to making scientific data open and accessible includes implementing accepted standards for data publication. F1000Research is very pleased to endorse the recently finalised FORCE11 data citation principles, many of which we have already implemented: Importance. F1000Research gives authors the option to publish data articles, which means that generating and sharing data can more…
The physiological effect of a gene is not just determined by its DNA sequence alone. In recent years, researchers have discovered the important role of DNA methylation: A methyl group on cytosine is an epigenetic modification that affects development, transcription, and a range of other functions. To understand how DNA methylation affects a particular phenotype,…
Ross Mounce is a researcher at the University of Bath and a F1000 Specialist. In this guest post he addresses the problem of publishing results merely as images, rather than as reusable data, and he shares his solution to unlocking data from images of phylogenetic trees. During the course of my PhD thesis research on…
Last week we were very pleased to publish the first F1000Research Article Collection. The BioJS collection was initially launched with 12 open source biological visualisation components, one BioJS community article and an overarching editorial. It was very exciting for us to publish this collection based on an open source software initiative which is going from…
We recently marked the first anniversary of the official launch of F1000Research; it’s been an eventful year, in which we published a few hundred papers on a range of topics in biology and medicine. Now we’d like to ask our readers, authors, and referees for a few minutes to fill in a survey about F1000Research.…
Being a scientist is about more than just research alone: there is publishing involved, teaching and outreach, and keeping on top of new developments in policy and data sharing issues. All these are themselves areas for study and analysis. For example, we’ve previously published papers about implementing journal clubs or about the accuracy of Google…
Ali Mobasheri is a research scientist in the field of cartilage biology, and works at the University of Nottingham as well as the School of Pharmacy at the University of Bradford. Professor Mobasheri is also a Faculty Member in the Rheumatology & Clinical Immunology Faculty of F1000Prime. During a recent visit to our London office,…
We are pleased to announce that a large proportion of our articles are now visible on PubMed and PubMed Central (PMC). We have been working closely for the past few months with the National Library of Medicine (NLM) on how best to represent our articles within PubMed and PMC due to our novel publishing model.…
