Celebrating open research in China

Chinese New Year, open research in China

Over the next few weeks, people around the world will be celebrating Chinese New Year and the transition to the year of the Ox. In the spirit of celebrating China, we wanted to reflect on the past year of Chinese research published with F1000Research, before exploring the current landscape for open research in China.

Drawing on community experience to shape wellbeing policy and practise – the benefit of ‘learning with’ LGBTI+ youth*

In this blog, Nerilee Ceatha, an alternate funded SPHeRE scholar with University College Dublin (UCD), discusses the teams’ Study Protocol, published by HRB Open Research, for a scoping review with the potential to inform research, policy and practice with relevance for LGBTI+ youth, their families, communities and the professionals who work with them.

Price Transparency on F1000Research

In our latest blog, Rebecca Lawrence, Managing Director, F1000 Research Ltd and Michael Markie, Publishing Director, F1000 Research Ltd, discuss the upcoming adjustments to the pricing structure on our publishing platform F1000Research and that of our partner platforms, in order to provide an equitable and more balanced approach to our APCs across all subject areas and to enable us to continue to better support all researchers, irrespective of their financial position.

Software publishing and reproducibility: a conversation with Simon Adar, Code Ocean CEO

Code Ocean compute capsules are the perfect match for Software Tool Articles on F1000Research. Embedded within the article itself, these widgets use cloud-based Docker technology to allow readers to run (and re-run) your code, right there in the body of the article. We spoke to Simon Adar, CEO of Code Ocean, about all things software, code, and reproducibility.

Open Data can be advanced by the COVID-19 pandemic, but it will still require a comprehensive approach

Sharing research data openly is becoming more common, but progress is slow. In this blog, Evgeny Bobrov, Open Data and Research Data Management Officer, at QUEST Center, Berlin Institute of Health, discusses whether the COVID-19 pandemic will accelerate the adoption of open data as a common academic practice.

Small but mighty – using nanomaterials to provide communities with clean drinking water

Tiny technology with life-changing potential for communities. Nanotechnology researcher, Anita Etale, Global Climate Change Institute at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, is a FLAIR (Future Leaders – African Independent Research) funded recipient. She used her FLAIR funding to research the use of nanomaterials to produce clean water from the contaminated supply produced from mine draining.…

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