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.
Guest post by two of our International Neuroinformatics Coordinating Facility (INCF) channel advisors, Helena Ledmyr and Malin Sandström.
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.
It’s the second year of Peer Review Week and in 2016 the theme is Recognition for Review. Our aim in marking the week is to explore the various aspects of how those who spent time on review should be recognised for their contribution.
Peer review. What’s left that has not already been said about peer review? It’s the best system we have. It’s flawed. All of the research community spend time and energy doing it, in the belief that they are contributing to their chosen field. Here at F1000, one of our objectives is to clean up the…
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…
Gary McDowell is August’s “F1000 Specialist of the Month”. He is the Executive Director of the Future of Research nonprofit and a resident at the Manylabs open science skunkworks in San Francisco, where he works to support junior scientists advocating for changes to the scientific system.
