The open research value proposition: How sharing can help researchers succeed. This working paper by Erin McKiernan et al. is welcoming your feedback. Five selfish reasons to work reproducibly. Article in Genome Biology by Florian Markowetz. (“And so, my fellow scientists: ask not what you can do for reproducibility; ask what reproducibility can do for…
The Peer Reviewers’ Openness Initiative asks reviewers to consider whether the paper they are reviewing is sufficiently open, and refuse to review articles that won’t allow access to underlying data. Darren Boehning didn’t get funding for a BRCA1 research project, so he put the proposal on his blog ready for anyone else to pick up…
A team of biohackers is developing the first open source protocol to produce insulin simply and economically. They’re crowdfunding on experiment, with 7 days left! Open science versus commercialization: a modern research conflict? All the talks from OpenCon are now on YouTube. Most of the OpenCon satellite events have now taken place, but Berlin’s is…
Since we launched F1000Workspace earlier this year, thousands of researchers and clinicians have signed up for our suite of tools to help them keep track of the articles they’ve read, discover new articles, collaborate with co-workers and write their articles. Together, they have now saved more than one million references to their F1000Workspace projects! That’s…
This week’s open science news includes a lot of great reading material, so grab a hot drink of choice and start your weekend with some articles and blog posts. “We have arrived at the juncture where medicine and science need new vehicles for the dissemination of knowledge” writes Harlan Krumholz in an editorial called The…
We at F1000 are pleased to announce the appointment of Rebecca Lawrence as Managing Director. Rebecca was previously Managing Director of F1000Research, the open science publishing platform of F1000. During the 6 years Rebecca has worked at F1000, she has launched and established both F1000Research and F1000Posters (the open access repository of posters and slides,…
OpenCon is almost upon us! If you’re not attending the main event in Brussels, check the site for a local event near you, or watch the livestream this weekend. You can find some of us at the London satellite event next week! Mendeley launched Mendeley Data, a new place where you can share your research…
Another guest post by Fiona Murphy about the previously mentioned project to give researchers credit for their data. Over the past few weeks, our project, ‘Giving Researchers Credit for their Data’ has continued to take shape. We held a meeting with key partners (Elsevier and ORCID) at the Jisc Headquarters and came away with some…
The entire editorial board of a top linguistics journal quits in protest of Elsevier policies, and is starting a new open access journal. This weekend, keep an eye on the #MozOpenSci tag on Twitter. It’s the hashtag for the Open Science Track of the annual Mozilla Festival. The week after that is OpenCon, which will…
The schedule for the open science track of the Mozilla Festival is up. The festival will take place on November 6-8 in London, and tickets are still available (and give you access to all the other tracks as well, just in case three parallel streams of open science aren’t enough). Later in November, the 7th…
