The wait is over! We are excited to announce that 24 members of the Association of Medical Research Charities (AMRC) have launched a new publication platform; AMRC Open Research. The platform gives researchers funded by the 24 charities the ability to share any and all of their research results in a transparent and accessible way.
In support of International Data Week, Hollydawn Murray introduces our newly overhauled data guidelines. These guidelines have been rolled out across the F1000 platforms including: Wellcome Open Research, Gates Open Research, HRB Open Research, MNI Open Research, and AMRC Open Research.
This week is Peer Review week, and given this year’s theme of ‘Diversity and Inclusion’ we took the opportunity to evaluate just how diverse and inclusive our peer review model is, looking at the geographical spread of F1000Research reviewers; the equal opportunities we provide for early career researchers; and the gender balance among F1000Research published reviewers.
Scientists have discovered the world’s oldest colour and it might not be what you think, as it’s bright pink! The bright pink pigments are molecular fossils of chlorophyll produced by tiny ancient cyanobacteria. Given this finding on cyanobacteria and evolution we share the top three articles related to the evolution of marine microbes; our usual top three articles for the month; and our Hidden Jewels.
A method article published on NC3Rs gateway on F1000Research describes the process of making whole brain organotypic slices and explains how this method can be used to reduce and refine the use of animals in Alzheimer’s disease research. In this Q&A, authors Cara Croft and Wendy Noble (CC and WN), and reviewer Claire Durrant (CD), talk about the 3Rs (replacing, reducing and refining); the NC3Rs gateway and their experience of open peer review.
Rebecca Lawrence announces the first open research publishing platform operated by F1000 on behalf of a publisher. By providing F1000’s technology and editorial services to Emerald Publishing and running Emerald Open Research for them, F1000 is taking steps to enable as many authors as possible to publish on an open research platform.
Europe PMC repository will start indexing preprints. In this blog post Rebecca Lawrence, Managing Director at F1000, talks about the growth of preprinting and the value this initiative has for research.
Hollydawn Murray announces the new Cytoscape Automation collection and we hear from users about its value for sharing and reproducibility.
Christian Ohmann discusses his research article on sharing individual participant data from clinical trials explaining the current challenges in sharing this data and what can be done to overcome these challenges. Sharing sensitive data Sharing detailed result data, as part of ‘open science’, is the norm in many scientific disciplines, but this has only recently…
The decrease in cost and increase in scale of biological data production and its diverse applications has changed life science research in recent years. Applied bioinformatics skills are now essential to successfully analyse data from high-throughput ‘omics instrumentation in many fields of biology. This has resulted in a need to upskill the life science workforce,…
