Who is ultimately responsible for the content of a research paper? Most of us would point at the authors: referees can assess what’s in the paper, but we have to trust that the authors present ‘real’ (not fabricated) data and that they report all results, not a cherry-picked selection. And yet, the expectation generally is…
What was new in open science this week? A few days ago Neil Hall published this paper on Genome Biology calling for a new index to measure social media impact of scientists. What he didn’t expect was that his comment would spawn #AlternateScienceMetrics. Have a look at fellow F1000 Specialist Graham Steel’s excellent Storify. We recently published…
Erin McKiernan is a researcher in experimental and computational neuroscience. You can follow her on Twitter @emckiernan13 F1000Research is the first journal that goes beyond open access, by practicing both open data sharing and open peer review. Sharing information in an open manner leads to a better scholarly environment by, among other things, promoting collaborations…
We have all heard people repeatedly pointing out that scholarly publishing has hardly changed since the first scientific journal article in 1665 and is still done largely within the constraints of a printing press. This is true on many levels including the humble figure. The latest article published in F1000Research by Björn Brembs and colleagues…
What was new in open science this week? Hack your PhD has produced a series of flyers representing various individuals who benefit from open science. See the PhD student image below, and all the rest (including journalist, citizen, librarian, etc.) on their website. If you missed the F1000Research/Harvard open science event in Boston last week,…
What was new in open science this week? Let’s admit it, as scientists we will “hack” anything in order to get the job done! Check out what Prof. Joshua Pearce (Michigan Tech) is doing with 3D printers! Have a “hack” of your own? Submit it to the F1000Specialists video competition! F1000Research Advisory Board Member, and F1000 Specialist Bjorn Brembs presents…
What was new in open science this week? European researchers demand more transparency and openness in the Human Brain Project’s decisions and allocation of funds. Missed yesterday’s Mozilla Science call? Catch up here! In Berlin next week? Check out the Open Knowledge Festival and it’s fringe events. You can also keep up via #OKFest14 on Twitter. There are…
This is the third in a series of posts in which we go into more detail about some of the concepts that F1000Research is based on. In previous installments, we looked at open access and open peer review. Here, we turn to post-publication peer review. What are the different types of post-publication peer review and…
What was new in open science this week? Are you a researcher in Germany? This survey asks how you are using online tools in your research. Want to help make science more open? Mozilla is hosting a Global Sprint on July 22 and 23. You can find more info in the notes for the planning…
It’s now been more than five months since Obokata et al. published the two “Stimulus-triggered fate conversion of somatic cells into pluripotency” or ‘STAP cell’ papers in Nature that would cause such soul-searching in the scientific community. We first covered the controversy surrounding the papers, and how it was reflected in the recommendations and dissents…
