Online publication should make publishing faster, but it still takes months to get a paper published. In competitive fields, it’s not unlikely that the credit for the first published paper on a new discovery doesn’t necessarily go to the researcher who was the first to complete the work, but to the one who happened to…
Today we are launching a project that will greatly improve how life scientists and clinicians connect with F1000 services globally – and locally – and will give scientists interested in scholarly communication some exciting new opportunities and recognition. This initiative, called F1000 Specialists, will allow enthusiastic users of F1000 services to become official, local representatives…
We recently came across The Paper Rejection Repository on the website of Niko Grigorieff’s group at Brandeis University. On this page, he showed from which journals some published papers had previously been rejected, and includes the rejection letters. We invited Niko to share some more details about this project in this guest post: My lab…
A couple of weeks ago, we interviewed F1000Research author Joel Huberman about his experiences with our journal. He published an article about the control of timing of telomere replication in fission yeast. In this study, he set out to investigate whether fission yeast telomere replication is similar to that of budding yeast, where replication timing…
(This is part 4 of a series of posts featuring speakers from “Challenging the Science Publishing Status Quo”, an evening of talks about peer review, data sharing, and open access. Previously: Lawrence Kane on rapid publication, Keith Flaherty on publishing negative results , Steven Hyman on sharing datasets ) Sue Griffin is is Dillard Professor…
We recently hosted “Challenging the Science Publishing Status Quo”, an evening of talks and discussion with several distinguished speakers. Each guest speaker focused on one particular aspect of publishing and peer review. We’ve recorded all the talks, and will be posting them one by one, starting today, and continuing throughout next week. The guest speaker…
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…
F1000Research, one of a number of major open access journal launches in 2012, has been fortunate to have support from the life science community – for submitting papers and reviewing them. We’ve been thinking about the best ways to show our appreciation to the early adopters of F1000Research’s Open Science approach to publishing papers, data,…
We will be publishing some interviews with authors of F1000Research papers on this blog. Today we hear from Jürgen Schnermann, Chief of the Kidney Disease Branch at NIDDK/NIH. His group recently published a paper in F1000Research “Nephron filtration rate and proximal tubular fluid reabsorption in the Akita mouse model of type I diabetes mellitus”. In…
