F1000 founder and chairman Vitek Tracz addresses a former Faculty Member’s critique of our subscription service.
Snippets from the Index on Censorship data debate.
New horizons in open source science using online scientific research communities.
With a tobacco giant using freedom of information laws to access smoking study data, we ask the question – how much of scientific research should be accessible?
F1000 chairman, Vitek Tracz, announces a new model for data publishing, with open peer review.
The tricky question of data sharing, reuse and openness is a familiar topic to regular readers of Naturally Selected: see previous posts gathered here, here and here. So we were interested to see a news article in Nature by Zoë Corbyn yesterday, Researchers failing to make raw data public. The article highlights a paper in…
More reaction to the Select Committee’s report on peer review, released last week. The Royal Society of Chemistry uses the occasion to trump its “subject repository style journal”, RSC Advances. Their press release also reminds me that they have a freely available chemical database, ChemSpider–which appears to have come on in leaps and bounds since…
You might have seen that the UK government has released its Select Committee’s report on peer review in science. The chair of the committee, Andrew Miller MP, says that the “general oversight of research integrity in the UK [is] unsatisfactory and complacent.” Note that he doesn’t say that the research is unsatisfactory–simply the oversight. I…
Here at F1000 we’re big fans of John Ioannidis’s work. He continues to be a zealous (in the best sense) promoter of the basic tenets of the scientific method and the design, execution and reporting of clinical studies. His 2005 paper in PLoS Medicine is still the most viewed article on F1000 (and most viewed…
Following on from my post yesterday about the ongoing UK House of Commons Select Committee on Science and Technology peer review enquiry, the oral session that Faculty of 1000 (F1000) took part in focussed on a long and interesting discussion about splitting up the review process into two constituent parts as the Public Library of…
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