The Faculty of 1000 team had a great time attending the 2013 Charleston Conference. It was a pleasure to participate and meet lots of old and new faces at our vendor booth and cocktail hour. Iain H, our Outreach Director from London, flew over the pond to give two presentations. First, Iain talked about how…
F1000Research is excited to showcase a beta version of our new data plotting tool, which enables referees and readers to visualise and play with the data in our articles ‘on the fly’. This tool can be currently seen on two datasets within two different articles: https://f1000research.com/articles/2-150/v1#plot and https://f1000research.com/articles/1-70/v1#plot. One important aspect of publishing in F1000Research…
Providing open access to data and software source code associated with F1000Research publications is a central feature of our journal. To further facilitate open access to software, we are pleased to announce we have created an F1000Research collection at Zenodo and an F1000Research space within GitHub. GitHub is a popular software repository used by a…
Open Access Week Open Access Week is an annual, global event, promoting open access publishing. Each year, talks or discussions about open access are planned at institutes around the world. This year, Open Access Week is from October 21 to 27, and F1000Research will be travelling to several institutes to talk about our publishing model.…
Faculty of 1000 Chairman Vitek Tracz reveals in an interview published today in Science Magazine much of what is driving the development of F1000’s services for life scientists and clinicians. In short, it’s solutions – solutions to long-established problems in scholarly communication, which, with better more efficient use of web technology, are solvable: 1. Better…
In a recent Industry Forum report by Thomson Reuters, several pertinent statements were made: The growing accumulation of data produced by academics which is not destined for publication represents an impediment to scientific progress. Conventional research assessment methods do not recognise or reward data sharing. A researcher’s overall contribution to scientific progress is greater than…
Today, BioMed Central announced that they will require authors to make all data associated with published articles available under a Creative Commons CC0 waiver. This is great news, as it places more biomedical data in the public domain, helping others to reuse data from peer-reviewed papers more efficiently. It’s the same legal tool that our…
Over the past months, we’ve been discussing the publication of negative results, and some of the obstacles that prevent people from publishing them. While we’re happy to publish papers based on negative results, not everyone can find the time to write them up. A Dutch funding agency is now giving out grants specifically to fund…
Releasing information in incremental steps is nothing new to software developers, who release updates and patches that add new functionality to existing programmes. The launch of a new bioinformatics tool is often accompanied by a paper describing the tool for new users. However, the paper describing the tool will be out of date as soon…
A year ago today, F1000Research launched its preliminary site. Among the very first papers published on that day was Manuel Corpas’ paper “Low budget analysis of Direct-To-Consumer genomic testing familial data”, in which he evaluated the potential of public domain analysis tools for personal genomics. Now, a year later, we followed up with Manuel to…
