A brief history of peer review

Peer review can be a confusing process at times, so to help cut out all the jargon and make it as simple as possible, we have developed the ‘Peer Review Experts’ blog series. This week, Yousuf Al-Mousawi, Senior Editorial Assistant at F1000Research, gives us a potted history of peer review and our place within it.

Keeping up with the evidence on Zika virus

Status updates for research – Michel Counotte and Nicola Low, University Bern, Switzerland, and their group of researchers are the first to publish a living systematic review on F1000Research. They explain why they upgraded from a ‘classic’ to this novel article type and why it is a great step for researchers helping them to keep up to date with the latest evidence on Zika.