It’s been a long winter and although Mother Nature has started warming up this floating blue marble (for the northern hemisphere at least), we are eager to hit the road in search of a warmer climate, sans winter coats. In support of F1000Workspace – our exclusive user-friendly software that helps with writing, collaborating, reference management and manuscript preparation – we will be visiting the Los Angeles area in time for the 60th Annual Meeting of the Biophysical Society.
Conference season is fast approaching so we will be highlighting some of the interesting posters and slides that are submitted to us throughout the year. With the recent global outbreaks of Ebola and Zika, there is a need to strengthen surveillance of emerging and re-emerging communicable diseases. Earlier detection of fast spreading disease-related threats, will…
This week we have cobbled together an easily digestible edition of our Open Science News in the Storify below; perfect to have with your morning cup of coffee. ENJOY. [View the story “Here are some of the latest stories in #openscience for the week of 15th of February, 2016” on Storify]
In theory, after the time and effort expended to get an article ready and polished for publication, it should be the point where you see the light at the end of the tunnel. However, in reality that’s not typically the case. Despite feeling the weight off your shoulders, you still need your article to comply…
Original research articles with one author – particularly in the life sciences – are increasingly rare, and the concept of ‘authorship’ in science has become outdated. Adopting a simple taxonomy of terms to describe the contributions to a published work could enable a range of benefits to all the stakeholders in research – most particularly…
Today, we are very excited to unveil the Preclinical Reproducibility and Robustness channel, a new dedicated venue for life scientists to publish and discuss confirmatory and non-confirmatory research results. We are also delighted to have this new channel championed by former Editor-in-Chief of Science magazine and F1000 International Advisory Board member, Bruce Alberts and Amgen’s…
Fourteen medical journals have proposed expansive new data-sharing requirements for authors writing about clinical experiments. Voice your opinions here. The Wellcome Trust, the National Institutes of Health and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute have banded together to “unleash the power of open content and data to advance biomedical research!” Submit your proposal here and check out this…
The Peer Reviewers’ Openness Initiative, which lets reviewers sign a pledge to only review articles that are published according to open science standards, was mentioned in Times Higher Education. “Dutch EU presidency aims at open access to scientific journals“. The Netherlands have been ahead of the curve in terms of pushing for open access publishing,…
An article in PLOS Biology, and discussed on The Scientist, revealed that, of a random sample of over 400 articles in the biomedical literature, none provided access to all the data! The article is part of a new PLOS Collection on Meta-Research. But why share? Is open science the way forward? Daniel P. Newman asks…
Can open science help with public engagement of science? “Mapping the hinterland: Data issues in open science“, an article in Public Understanding of Science, explores this question. Nature Communications will start publishing the peer review histories of articles from January onward, unless the authors opt-out. In response to the above news, Leonid Schneider blogged about…
