This is the fifth and final instalment of the “What is…” series of posts, in which we focus on open science. Previous posts in this series covered open access, open peer review, post-publication peer review and open data. Here we look at open science as a collective term, and some of the other concepts that…
Want to go for an interstellar ride (sorry, not that Interstellar)? Explore the vastness of space by designing, building and managing space missions with Project Chronos. Check out Scientific Protocols (part of the Reproducibility Initiative). With over 30 pages of research protocols and discussions for each, chances are you’ll find what you’re looking for! Controlled…
Antibodies: the most frequently used research tool in the lab Antibodies are one of the most used tools in any life sciences laboratory; a survey conducted by The Scientist in 2012 revealed that 88% of laboratories use research antibodies. It is therefore not surprising that the market for antibodies and the number of companies selling…
We had quite a few online events during Open Access Week (October 20-26), and some of our discussions are archived online. If you’d like to watch and listen to our interviews about Open Access in the Global South, or read the Reddit thread about the future (or lack thereof…) of journals, you can visit the…
Featured article Back to the drawing board: Re-thinking the role of GLI1 in pancreatic carcinogenesis [v1; ref status: indexed, https://f1000r.es/4du] Tara Hogenson, Matthias Lauth, Marina Pasca diMagliano, Martin Fernandez-Zapico The protein GLI1, is a well conserved transcriptional mediator of Hedgehog (HH) signaling, and regulates multiple cellular processes such as cell fate determination, tissue patterning, proliferation…
Andres Delgado thinks some of the features of Medium would be perfectly suited to writing scientific articles. F1000Research Advisory Board member Victoria Stodden gave a seminar about reproducibility in computational science. A summary of the highlights of last week’s Open Science Days at the Max Planck Institute. Today is the first day of Mozfest, and…
Due to a small technical issue, we missed last week’s round-up of open science news, so this one is a bit longer. It’s also a very busy time of year for open science, with both Open Access Week and MozFest just days away! Read on for this, and more news. Next week is Open Access…
Next week is International Open Access Week, and this year we have planned several events for you. Most of them are online events, so you can attend from anywhere in the world, and we hope to (virtually) meet many of you during our Google Hangout, web demo, and Reddit Science AMA. Google Hangout: The…
To continue our series of “What is…” posts, we’re focusing on open data. Previous posts in this series covered open access, open peer review and post-publication peer review. Open data in science “Open data” is a broad concept that doesn’t just apply to research data, but also to, for example, the opening up of…
This week’s news in Open Science A special issue of Learned Publishing is all about data publishing. We contributed one of the articles, but you should read them all, or at least this one from the British Ecological Society, about their experiences with mandated data archiving. Do you have the skills to fight Ebola? If…
