Earlier this week, we started a discussion on Twitter, using hashtag #scoopingsci, to talk about issues surrounding scooping in science. This is an interesting topic from our point of view, because we can help researchers in different ways, and from the ensuing Twitter discussion, it seems like all these angles are of interest to people:…
1. We’ve just attended a number of conferences and visited several institutes, so you might have already met us. Why not send us a paper, and be included in our first full calendar year of published articles? (SfN reception, 11/11/13 – photo by Cindy Chen.) 2. It’s a busy time of year, but…
F1000Research is excited to showcase a beta version of our new data plotting tool, which enables referees and readers to visualise and play with the data in our articles ‘on the fly’. This tool can be currently seen on two datasets within two different articles: https://f1000research.com/articles/2-150/v1#plot and https://f1000research.com/articles/1-70/v1#plot. One important aspect of publishing in F1000Research…
Last week we announced our three distinct amendment options for F1000Research articles. One of the options is a ‘follow-up’ article, which has been designed for authors who have published a paper that would benefit from regular additions to ensure that the content is both current and relevant to its readers. The need for this type…
As anyone familiar with the F1000Research model knows, all our articles can be amended by the authors following publication to produce new individually citable versions of that article. We have labelled such amendments to-date using a black ‘Updated’ badge at the start of the article title and in the article status summary box on the…
Providing open access to data and software source code associated with F1000Research publications is a central feature of our journal. To further facilitate open access to software, we are pleased to announce we have created an F1000Research collection at Zenodo and an F1000Research space within GitHub. GitHub is a popular software repository used by a…
Open Access Week Open Access Week is an annual, global event, promoting open access publishing. Each year, talks or discussions about open access are planned at institutes around the world. This year, Open Access Week is from October 21 to 27, and F1000Research will be travelling to several institutes to talk about our publishing model.…
Vitek Tracz, our chairman, founder and all-round science publishing firebrand, has been interviewed by Science in their latest issue: Communication in Science Pressure and Predators. The interview provides an insight into the man who has become famous for his experimental approach to scientific publishing and his willingness to challenge the status quo. In the interview,…
Faculty of 1000 Chairman Vitek Tracz reveals in an interview published today in Science Magazine much of what is driving the development of F1000’s services for life scientists and clinicians. In short, it’s solutions – solutions to long-established problems in scholarly communication, which, with better more efficient use of web technology, are solvable: 1. Better…
One of the interesting aspects of F1000Research articles is that you can update them at any time. In February, Jasmina Kurepa and Jan Smalle, of the University of Kentucky, published a paper about an Arabidopsis 26S proteasome mutant that passed peer review within just a few weeks. However, in June, they updated their paper with…
