We’ve just returned from the FASEB Experimental Biology meeting in Boston, where we hosted an evening of discussions about science publishing. We invited five prominent guest speakers to discuss the importance of rapid publication, publishing non-standard studies, open data, transparent peer review, and the influence of governments and funders on open access. All talks have…
There has been a lot of discussion about speed to publication in the blogosphere recently, so we thought we would share some initial insights into our stats (and remind you that our speed isn’t the only thing that makes F1000Research different). Fast? How fast? We have analyzed our first few months of publishing and can…
Mark your diaries if you’re in the Boston area, and join us on April 22nd for an evening of provocative talks, followed by drinks, in celebration of Open Science Publishing. Coinciding with the Experimental Biology meeting in Boston, but open to delegates and non-delegates alike, F1000Research is hosting a discussion on the benefits of Open…
I’ve recently returned from the Beyond the PDF2 unconference in Amsterdam and I’m really excited about the enthusiastic response we received to the proposals for new data review guidelines, which I presented on behalf of a project we have been co-organising with Geraldine Stoneham-Clement, Elizabeth Newbold and Jonathan Tedds. The purpose of the project At…
Researchers are coming under increasing pressure to share the detailed results of their research, namely the datasets themselves, with other researchers. The pressure may come in the form of data management plans now being requested by many funders, or from requests for the data from an institutional data repository, or from journals that are increasingly…
As you can see, we have had a busy couple of months with plenty of new articles published on a wide range of topics. I just wanted to take a few minutes to explain a couple of points that have been causing a little confusion on our site. What does ‘indexed’ mean? The first relates…
We are very pleased to say that F1000Research has been approved for indexing in PubMed. Don’t rush off to go and look for our articles there yet though, as there will be a short delay before the first ones appear – it should happen in the next few weeks. We have agreed with the NLM…
After a successful beta release since July 2012, F1000Research has today come out of beta, re-launching on a new publishing platform together with a change of colour to celebrate. Moving to our own custom-built site will enable us to have much greater flexibility and agility to further develop the site and expand the features available. …
We have been pleased to see that our novel referee process on F1000 Research generally seems to be working well (and fast), with many authors now revising their articles (see our first two revisions from Frederick Morfaw and Gavin Oliver). We have made a number of changes to our refereeing process over the past few…
We have now finalised our Article Processing Charges (APCs) for F1000 Research which will come into effect on 1 Jan 2013 (submission is free of charge until this date). We have split our article types into 2 main groups: Short articles: single-result articles / data articles / case reports / articles based on posters /…
