This is a guest post by Fiona Murphy, Project Manager for Giving Researchers Credit for their Data. “Researchers have too much to do, and too much of their work goes unrecognised. Tools like this will help to take the friction out of their daily lives and help them to share, improve and get credit for…
This week was Open Access Week! Here’s our post of the F1000Research activities. The NIH partnered with the Wellcome Trust on an Open Science prize. Up to six teams of technology experts and researchers stand to win $80,000 each to develop their ideas into a prototype or to advance an existing early stage prototype. The…
“Open peer review produces better scrutiny of research than traditional methods.” Copernicus journals are changing the way by which articles go through their publication system. Yhey’re still using open post-publication peer review, don’t worry! It’s a matter of presentation style only. The Natural History Museum in London is publishing a data portal which “will develop…
Next week (October 19 to 25) is Open Access Week, an annual event where institutes around the world organise events to discuss open access. You can find out about F1000Research at several Open Access Week events, including the following: University of Pittsburgh – Larry Kane is speaking about F1000Research on a panel on October 19,…
We are very excited to announce our latest collaboration here at F1000Research, which is with the excellent team at Dream Challenges. DREAM, which stands for Dialogue for Reverse Engineering Assessment and Methods, has led the way in innovating crowd sourced collaborations between academia, industry and not for profits to answer important biomedical questions that have…
The 2nd altmetrics conference took place in Amsterdam earlier this week. You can find tweets from the meeting with hashtag #2AMconf Speaking of altmetrics, Authorea introduces two new altmetrics for open science: The Open Science Index (OSI) and the Collaborative Open Science Index (COSI). Congratulations to Richard Smith-Unna, Christie Bahlai, Joey Lee and Jason Bobe,…
This week was the inaugural Peer Review Week, with tweets under the #PeerRevwk15. F1000Research published our own compilation of useful peer review blogs here. A new study published by BMJ Open showed that open peer review is superior to a closed model Researchers shared their open science stories on the Winnower, for example, “How becoming…
In a New York Times article published last week, doctors advocate for more open science in order to more rapidly communicate lifesaving treatments. Open Knowledge Finland Open Science Working Group held a workshop on Thursday 24th entitled “Beyond Open Access: The changing culture of producing and disseminating scientific knowledge,” which is summed up in this…
Today we are very excited to publish The ICR1000 UK exome series: a resource of gene variation in an outbred population a research article from Nazneen Rahman’s Lab at the Institute of Cancer Research, UK. The dataset described in the paper includes exome sequence data from 1,000 individuals of the general UK population where the…
Earlier this week, the 7th Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing (COASP) was held in Amsterdam. You can find conversations from the meeting on Twitter, under the #COASP hashtag. “It’s OK to be wrong in public“, and other advice for implementing an open science workflow with Software Carpentry. You’ve heard about Green and Gold, but…
