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Open research publisher F1000, is delighted to announce that it has now extended its trailblazing publishing offering on its own publishing platform, F1000Research, into all subject disciplines, with the latest addition of Humanities, Social Sciences, Physical Sciences and Engineering completing the line-up. Launched in 2013, F1000Research pioneered the ‘post publication, open peer review’ open research…

The rapid rise of VeriXiv amongst Gates grantees VeriXiv has seen incredible growth since launch and has established itself as the preprint venue of choice for Gates-funded researchers. In 2025, 442 preprints were published on the server, accounting for 34% of all Gates Foundation-funded preprints. This makes VeriXiv equal to medRxiv as the most popular preprint…

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Open access agreements Find out if you are eligible for fee support when publishing your work open access with F1000 F1000 is part of some Taylor & Francis open access agreements, which offer institutions and researchers a bespoke solution to publishing open access. They simplify the open access process for authors and reduce costs and…

Open source software and code Find everything you need to know about sharing software and code from your research project Making research software and code FAIR You might already be familiar with the FAIR Principles as they apply to research data, but what about research software and code? For research to be transparent, reproducible, and reusable, research…

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Content verification The purpose of VeriXiv is to ensure that preprints undergo a more stringent set of authorship, publishing ethics and research integrity checks than many other preprint servers prior to publication. Whilst speed of sharing new discoveries is clearly very important in accelerating research progress towards tackling some of today’s major societal challenges, we…

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Ways we’ve helped our current partners Our services include everything from entry points to open research publishing to independent publishing venues. Here are just some of the ways we can work with your organization to advance open research in your community. Why partner with F1000? What do our current partners think?

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Ancient beginnings Peer review, in some form, has been an integral part of scholarly communication for centuries, with roots dating back to ancient civilizations. In ancient Greece, for example, scholars would often discuss and debate each other’s works, offering critiques and insights. However, this was more of an informal process, lacking the structured system we…

What is peer review, and why is it important? Peer review refers to the independent assessment of a research paper by experts in your field. The purpose of peer review is to determine whether a paper is suitable for publication and of good quality.Beyond serving as a mechanism for quality assurance in academic journals, peer…

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What is peer review?    Peer review is the assessment of research outputs by other researchers in a scholarly field and is crucial at all stages of a research project. The purpose of the peer review process is to evaluate the validity, significance, and originality of research. Peer review, at its best, is a collaborative process…

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It’s incredibly beneficial for society to share data. Open data can accelerate scientific discovery, increase collaboration, and improve reproducibility. Open licenses also facilitate data sharing by managing copyright and other restrictions that might otherwise restrict its dissemination or reuse.  Moreover, many publishing venues, funders, and governments now enforce data sharing policies and mandates. At F1000,…

What is open data?    Open data is a crucial component of open science and refers to data that is available for everyone to access, use, and share. It’s often associated with the FAIR Guiding Principles, which aim to make data more Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable.

Why should you write for non-academics?  The answer to this question is pretty simple: communicating your research to a non-academic audience paves the way for increased readership and a broader potential impact.  Reaching out to non-academics often means sharing your work and engaging with important stakeholders and decision-makers, including policymakers. Such audiences can use and…

What makes research data sensitive? Generally speaking, sensitive research data refers to data that should not be shared in the public domain without additional consideration or permission. This might include human data, data impacting on national security, such as military secrets, or sensitive location data of rare, endangered species or archeological sites, for example.

Greater diversity, greater quality While peer review is intrinsic to research quality and scientific rigor, it is not a system without flaws. Both reviewer fatigue and the small pool of reviewers selected by editors pose a threat to the sustainability of peer review. Though peer reviewers aim to give impartial commentary and critique, they cannot…

Open data at F1000 First things first, what is open data? Open data is data that is available for everyone to access, use, and share. In a research context, the term refers to any information or materials that have been collected or created as part of your research project, such as interviews and transcripts, models…

Why is reproducibility important? Guaranteeing that research is reproducible is paramount to fostering trust in science.   Both authors and the wider research community can benefit from making their research reproducible.   First and foremost, publishing openly and reproducibly helps reduce research waste by allowing others to build upon existing research. Plus, reproducibility empowers scholars to drive…

While the world closed, science opened    Researchers increasingly used their own data and data from others during COVID-19   The pandemic caused significant disruption to the scientific process leading to a swift change in perspective on data reuse.    The State of Open Data 2020 report surveyed authors worldwide on the impact of the pandemic on their…

Open data supports greater transparency and reproducibility  Making all underlying data openly available is a prerequisite to publishing with F1000. Open data is a core element of our innovative publishing model. Before an article is published, our editorial team checks that authors have shared their data in an open format. But why do we place…

At F1000, we believe that all research outputs deserve proper recognition, including software tools and apps. We publish a wide range of article types – from the traditional research articles and reviews to more unusual formats such as Software Tool Articles, Data Notes, Case Reports, and beyond.    We also know that reproducibility is the cornerstone…

The global open access movement Research institutions, funders, and governments worldwide have introduced policies recommending researchers publish their research open access, or deposit their articles in OA repositories, or both.   According to the Registry of Open Access Repositories Mandatory Archiving Policies (ROARMAP) over 1000 policies currently exist internationally. The ROARMAP is a searchable international registry…

The rise of data sharing and management policies  Globally, research and data sharing policies have grown steadily due to a variety of factors. Events such as the global COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the value of immediate access to research data. Moreover, governments, institutions, and funders are increasingly encouraging their funded researchers to publish their research and…

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What is open data? Open data is data that is available for everyone to access, use, and share. This means the data is stored somewhere public, like a repository, so anyone can find, read, and reuse the data, which an open license enables. When most people hear ‘data,’ they tend to think of spreadsheets and…

This post features poll results from a recent panel discussion with Joseph Lerro, Dr. Vitaly Citovsky, Mona Ramonetti, and Dr. Lisa Federer. This discussion was part of a recent webinar we ran in partnership with Library Journal. For further learning you can watch the full webinar ‘The Role of Publishers and Libraries in the Evolution…

Before we down tools and take a much-needed break over the upcoming holiday period, I just wanted to pause for a moment to take a look back on all that we have learned and achieved in this last year. I thought it best to start this annual tradition by reflecting back on what I wrote…

Thinking Together provides information about how F1000 is working with research communities internationally to progress the opportunities of open research and tackle the challenges to open research adoption. Our Open Thinking ambassador program aims to engage with open research advocates around the world who are enthusiastic users of the F1000 publishing model or open science…

Today, the AXA Research Fund announces the launch of its own publishing hub with F1000, part of Taylor & Francis. The hub is hosted on F1000’s own platform, F1000Research, and adopts its pioneering approach to open research publishing. Supporting the AXA Research Fund’s purpose to accelerate science, the AXA Research Fund Gateway will enable all…

At F1000, we recently hosted a plenary session on the open research movement at the annual Association of Research Managers and Administrators (ARMA) Conference. At the start of the session, we asked 73 research managers what the term ‘open research’ meant to them. The top two words that came to mind were transparency and accessibility.…

Making science open to everyone has huge benefits for researchers and society. But there are still barriers preventing academics from choosing this path. During the recent Charleston Conference, Rebecca Lawrence, Managing Director at F1000 and Ashley Farley, Program Officer of Knowledge & Research Services at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, ran a session to…

Discover the new Gateway on F1000Research, offering Latin American research communities the opportunity to publish in a forum with international visibility and in accordance with the principles of open science. GDC Difusión Científica has partnered with open research publisher F1000 to create a dedicated open research publishing hub, GDC Open Research in Latin America. This…

December is one of my favorite months of the year as it’s a time to pause, reflect and collect what we’ve learned about ourselves and our business this year, so that we can put our best foot forward, energized by hope in the year ahead. I remember the start of January 2021 exclaiming, “Bring on…

Policy missteps will continue to overshadow the global response to Covid because policymakers are overwhelmed with rapidly shifting research evidence, according to experts, including F1000’s Managing Director Rebecca Lawrence, writing in the peer-reviewed journal Nature. Faced with new challenges such as the Omicron variant, decision-makers can’t keep up with the flood of new research studies…

In February 2021, F1000 held a webinar for NORDP (National Organization for Research Development Professionals) members entitled: ‘Open Science Trends: Opportunities for Research Development & Innovation’. This webinar featured Dr. Kimberly Eck, Dr. Robert Kruse, Dr. Brad Fenwick and Jamie Burns. Some key themes were identified in the webinar, which we’ll delve into in this…

Today, Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE) launched its own open access publishing hub with F1000, Taylor & Francis Group’s open research publishing arm. This new Gateway will be hosted on F1000’s own open research publishing platform, F1000Research, thereby increasing the reproducibility and accessibility of their published research. All research published on the Manipal Academy…

Taylor & Francis will launch its first Open Research Publishing platform for the Materials Science community, utilizing the publishing model, technology and knowledge pioneered by their open research publishing partner F1000, which they acquired in 2020. This joint initiative strengthens their shared goals of amplifying and democratizing research and is another firm step forward in…

Stosunki Międzynarodowe – International Relations transitions to open research publishing model, offering innovative open access publishing opportunities for International Relations researchers. Together with F1000, part of Taylor & Francis Group, the University of Warsaw’s Faculty of Political Science and International Relations has launched one of the world’s first open research publishing platforms in the field…

Discover the new Gateway on F1000Research, enabling a home for the National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (NIPER-Kolkata) conference outputs. Today, the National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (NIPER-Kolkata) launched its own open access publishing hub with F1000, Taylor & Francis Group’s open research publishing arm. This will be hosted on the F1000Research…

As of today, the world’s first open research publishing platform dedicated to the science and technology of collaborative robots is open for submissions. This new publishing platform, known as Cobot, is a partnership between AUBO (Beijing) Intelligent Science and Technology Co. Ltd and F1000, the open research publishing arm of Taylor & Francis Group. It…

Discover the new open research publishing platform, now welcoming submissions on ‘Digital Twin’ from authors. This first of its kind open research platform is now open for submissions: http://digitaltwin1.org/ Digital Twin is a rapid multidisciplinary open access publishing platform for researchers, practitioners and experts to publish state-of-the-art basic, scientific and applied research on digital twin…

Today, the International Institute of Academic Research & Publications (IIARP) in India has partnered with F1000, Taylor & Francis Group’s open research publishing arm, to create a dedicated open research publishing hub for IIARP researchers. The International Institute of Academic Research & Publications (IIARP) is the world’s largest non-profitable professional organization for research development and…

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The Association for Medical Education in Europe (AMEE) has partnered with F1000 to migrate MedEdPublish onto a new publishing platform utilizing F1000’s trailblazing technology. This expands their existing relationship with Taylor & Francis which runs across multiple projects including the publishing of Medical Teacher. Founded in 2017 by AMEE, MedEdPublish is an open access journal…

Today, AUBO (Beijing) Intelligent Science and Technology Co. Ltd has announced that it has signed a contract with F1000, Taylor & Francis Group’s open research publishing arm, to develop the first open research publishing platform dedicated to the science and technology of collaborative robots. Collaborative robots, or “cobots” are robots intended to work side-by-side and…

Today, Beihang University has signed a contract with F1000, Taylor & Francis Group’s open research arm, to develop the first open access publication platform that is dedicated to ‘Digital Twin’ technologies. Digital twin refers to a complex virtual model that constitutes the exact counterpart (or twin) of a physical thing. In principle, the ‘thing’ could…

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Discover the new Gateway on F1000Research, welcoming submissions from authors affiliated with the University of Tsukuba in both English and Japanese. Today, the University of Tsukuba launched its own open access publishing hub that will enable researchers to publish in either English or Japanese. The hub, which is hosted on the F1000Research site, adopts its…

To commemorate International Women’s Day 2021, we have taken the opportunity to reflect on the current landscape for women in publishing, as we invited four women from across F1000 to share their thoughts. For this special feature, Rebecca Lawrence, Molly Cranston, Anna Curson and Hannah Murphy each discuss their own routes into publishing, highlighting challenges…