In this Q&A, Martin Elliott, Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery at University College London (UCL) and an Advisory Board Member for UCL Child Health Open Research platform, shares his views on open access, anticipating an increase in its use by institutions and grant-giving bodies, and explains how this could improve trust and transparency in the scientific community.
Our Managing Director, Rebecca Lawrence, announces our first publication platform on behalf of a public funder – Ireland’s Health Research Board. She reflects on the leadership being shown by the funders we work with and how the growing number of publication platforms is beginning to open up wider discussions.
We interviewed Carolina Ramirez Santana, a researcher working on auto-immune diseases, and the Lab Co-ordinator of the Translational Medicine Research Group at Centro de Estudio de Enfermedades Autoimmunes, Colombia. She discusses open access, lack of funding, and explains the challenges to disseminate research on theinternational stage for researchers in Colombia.
Nazneen Rahman, Head of the Division of Genetics and Epidemiology at The Institute of Cancer Research and a member of the Advisory Board for Wellcome Open Research, shares her thoughts on open access and the value in sharing every piece of information.
Claire Turner and Kalipso Chalkidou from Global Health and Development Group introduce iDSI, the International Decision Support Initiative, a gateway to share technical knowledge of health economics and stakeholder management to help low and middle income countries transition towards more effective healthcare systems.
Chao Zhang was an author on a recent F1000Research that article looked into the options available to researchers for reusing data gathered from patients during clinical research. He outlines the several stages that are needed for these data to be accessed and reused.
As the new academic year begins, here at F1000 our thoughts are focused on peer review and Peer Review Week 2017. During this week, we will delve into the meaning of this year’s theme ‘Transparency in Peer Review’, which is close to our hearts at F1000.
We announce our partnership with the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital to launch MNI Open Research. Our Managing Director, Rebecca Lawrence, discusses how this open research platform will support their journey to become an open science institute
The Director of the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital, Guy Rouleau, talks about how launching the publication platform MNI Open Research will support their plans of becoming an open science institute.
Hollydawn Murray recently attended the Galaxy Community Conference in Montpellier in France. She gives us a run down of the talks and topics that caused a buzz while there.
