New horizons in open source science using online scientific research communities.
With a tobacco giant using freedom of information laws to access smoking study data, we ask the question – how much of scientific research should be accessible?
F1000 chairman, Vitek Tracz, announces a new model for data publishing, with open peer review.
Remember the news story about alien life that turned out not to be about that at all (here, and links therein)? Well, in a triumph for open science advocates everywhere, Rosie Redfield has started trying to replicate the GFAJ-1 growth experiments, and is reporting progress on her own blog. (It’s the reporting progress thing that…
More reaction to the Select Committee’s report on peer review, released last week. The Royal Society of Chemistry uses the occasion to trump its “subject repository style journal”, RSC Advances. Their press release also reminds me that they have a freely available chemical database, ChemSpider–which appears to have come on in leaps and bounds since…
You might have seen that the UK government has released its Select Committee’s report on peer review in science. The chair of the committee, Andrew Miller MP, says that the “general oversight of research integrity in the UK [is] unsatisfactory and complacent.” Note that he doesn’t say that the research is unsatisfactory–simply the oversight. I…
Here at F1000 we’re big fans of John Ioannidis’s work. He continues to be a zealous (in the best sense) promoter of the basic tenets of the scientific method and the design, execution and reporting of clinical studies. His 2005 paper in PLoS Medicine is still the most viewed article on F1000 (and most viewed…
There’s an interesting article just out in Issues in Science & Technology Librarianship, which “publishes substantive content of interest to science and technology librarians.” Written by John Carey, head librarian at Hunter College, City University of New York, the article examines the concept of “invisible colleges“: mechanisms that promote dissemination of knowledge and fuel the…
