The Director of the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital, Guy Rouleau, talks about how launching the publication platform MNI Open Research will support their plans of becoming an open science institute.
A systematic review by Tony Ross-Hellauer, University of Gottingen, Germany, tries to resolve the ambiguity surrounding open peer review by providing more than a 120 definitions. It was openly peer reviewed by Bahar Mehmani, from Elsevier, RELX Group. In this blog, both explain why there can’t be a single precise definition for open peer review and instead communities should clarify their meaning by naming specific traits, such as open identities, open reports or open platforms, to minimise confusion.
In this post, our Editorial Director, Sabina Alam, explores what is meant when control is passed over to the authors. This is a position that many authors may not have found themselves in before so Sabina outlines some of the main aspects of the peer review process that F1000Research authors experience.
We have launched Open Research Central, a new portal through which research in any field can be submitted for formal publication on one of the open research publishing platforms that we provide for funders and institutes. Through Open Research, we will grow a publishing model that truly focuses on serving the needs of authors and their research communities.
In June, a DNA analysis of over 200 ancient cat remains from Viking graves, Egyptian mummies and Stone Age Sites, revealed how the cat was domesticated and how it efficiently spread across the globe. This inspired us to paw through our recommended articles on the other findings made about felines based on their genetics. We also include our usual top 3 articles for the month and our Hidden Jewels.
Liz Allen recently participated in a workshop hosted by the University of Kent Business School – the subject was whether metrics or peer review are the best tools to support research assessment. In this post, she looks into what peer review actually tells us and how we use expert opinion.
We hear from Phil Ward, Deputy Director of Research Services at the University of Kent, about how research quality is assessed in the UK including some of the problems with this and what alternatives there are to the norm
Corina Logan, University of Cambridge, recently published an Opinion Article about publishing choices that face researchers when decided how to disseminate their work. The article underwent open post-publication peer review and was also highlighted through our literature recommendation service F1000Prime. Clint Perry, Queen Mary University of London, is an Associate Faculty Member for F1000Prime and co-author of the recommendation. In this post, Corina and Clint discuss some of the points raised in Corina’s article about the peer review, open access and what changes are needed to ensure that publishers better serve the scientific community.
Throughout May, there were many discussions and reports about the current uses and future possibilities of artificial intelligence (AI), with AI and health care appearing to be a major theme. In recognition of this, we are highlighting the top 3 recommended articles in the area of AI in this month’s blog post, which we have decided to rename, and for those Transformers fans out there, you will see the link to this month’s theme. We also include our usual top 3 articles for the month and our Hidden Jewels.
A recent Opinion Article by Jan Voskuil, Aeonian Biotech, discussed the challenges in validation of research antibodies. It was openly peer reviewed by Michael Weller, Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (BAM), Germany. In this blog, both discuss these challenges, the reproducibility crisis and open data.
