A systematic review by Tony Ross-Hellauer, University of Gottingen, Germany, tries to resolve the ambiguity surrounding open peer review by providing more than a 120 definitions. It was openly peer reviewed by Bahar Mehmani, from Elsevier, RELX Group. In this blog, both explain why there can’t be a single precise definition for open peer review and instead communities should clarify their meaning by naming specific traits, such as open identities, open reports or open platforms, to minimise confusion.
Two research groups published their data articles about the sugarcane genome. They explain the crop’s economic importance and the scale of the challenges involved in sequencing its genome.
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.
In this post, our Editorial Director, Sabina Alam, explores what is meant when control is passed over to the authors. This is a position that many authors may not have found themselves in before so Sabina outlines some of the main aspects of the peer review process that F1000Research authors experience.
Science is often a long-term endeavour, with research being conducted over months or years, but scientific hackathons turn this notion on its head by bringing participants together to come up with solutions for scientific problems in just three days. Lisa Federer, from the National Institutes of Health, talks about the creative and collaborative nature of hackathons and the opportunities to get involved.
Through our new partnership with Plotly, you can now publish interactive figures in our articles and for a limited time you will receive a 50% APC reduction if you include one in your article. Thomas Ingraham introduces this new exciting feature and explains how it can bring your data to life
Technology is being incorporated more and more into our daily lives. Social media platforms allow researchers to easily connect with one another and to simply find citations or resources. Guest blogger, Sarah Kearns, a PhD student at University of Michigan, gives her views on knowledge networking, and explains how it can help researchers compile and share information, as well as to find their way through the mounds of data and resources in order for these conclusions to be made.
We have launched Open Research Central, a new portal through which research in any field can be submitted for formal publication on one of the open research publishing platforms that we provide for funders and institutes. Through Open Research, we will grow a publishing model that truly focuses on serving the needs of authors and their research communities.
In June, a DNA analysis of over 200 ancient cat remains from Viking graves, Egyptian mummies and Stone Age Sites, revealed how the cat was domesticated and how it efficiently spread across the globe. This inspired us to paw through our recommended articles on the other findings made about felines based on their genetics. We also include our usual top 3 articles for the month and our Hidden Jewels.
Liz Allen recently participated in a workshop hosted by the University of Kent Business School – the subject was whether metrics or peer review are the best tools to support research assessment. In this post, she looks into what peer review actually tells us and how we use expert opinion.
