Looking for something interesting to read while you wait on an experiment? Treat yourself to a 10 minute break and catch up with all that’s been happening in the world of open science! It’s always refreshing to learn about young researchers’ perspectives on why open science is important for their careers. During Open Access Week…
Rusty Speidel is Marketing Director at the Center for Open Science (COS). He has had a long career in digital technology and technology marketing, and spent his early career designing and building online scholarly peer-review and article submission systems for a variety of scientific and medical journals. He also designed and developed some of the first digital CME products for cardiology and hematology. He has also designed digital marketing programs in the e-commerce, gaming, green energy and travel industries.
In this guest post, Hannah Hope, Open Research Co-ordinator at Wellcome, explains how the funder is aiming to put open into action via their new publishing platform Wellcome Open Research. At Wellcome, we are committed to improving health for everyone by helping great ideas to thrive. Our researchers are central to this. The accessibility of the…
Today is the beginning of this year’s annual Open Access Week. This year’s Open Access Week theme of “Open in Action” is all about taking concrete steps to open up research and scholarship and encouraging others to do the same. In this blog post, we look at some of the ways we at F1000Research already do to work towards wholly open science.
In recognition of World Food Day this post highlights two articles recently published in the OKAD channel that illustrate the power of using data-rich visualization approaches to meet the Sustainable Development Goals of eliminating hunger, malnutrition and poverty by 2030.
Here at F1000Prime we are grateful for the work of our Faculty; without them we wouldn’t exist. They provide recommendations for articles along with explanations for their choices, identifying key papers week in, week out. Our Heads of Faculty work hard to ensure the scope of their Faculties and Sections truly reflect their fields and…
A guest post from Yajing Xu, a Neuroscience PhD student at UCL, funded by the Wellcome Trust Programme. Her research interests focus on the role of microglia in the postnatal development of the dorsal horn pain circuitries. She is keen to learn more about open science and how to improve the way we are doing science.
Looking for something interesting to read while you wait on an experiment? Treat yourself to a 10 minute break and catch up with what’s been happening in the world of open science! You’ve heard of the Protein Data Bank, but have you heard of Crystalium? This new open-source database, created by Nanoengineers at the University…
As part of International Data Week, F1000Research joins data professionals and researchers from all disciplines in exploring how best to exploit the data revolution to improve our knowledge and benefit society through data-driven research and innovation. “The new kingmakers” Researchers, funders, universities, and publishers are often recognised as the key players in the Open Data movement. …
I am excited to be presenting at the first GODAN Summit in New York on 15-16th September in conjunction with the 71st Session of the UN General Assembly. GODAN (Global Open Data in Agriculture and Nutrition) is a high-level initiative to make agriculture and nutrition research data publicly available, so that the insights and knowledge they…
