In this blog, F1000's Managing Director, Rebecca Lawrence, outlines the first of several adjustments to the F1000 model. This first tweak removes a current author pain point: suggesting reviewers.
When F1000Research first launched in 2013, it set out to rethink how research is communicated, with the aim of greatly accelerating the sharing of new findings, bringing control of the process back to the authors and the research community, and providing transparency across the full process, from un...
F1000 and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation have announced plans to launch a new verified preprint platform that will enable the rapid availability of new findings and promote research integrity. VeriXiv [pronounced very-kive] will support researchers in complying with the Gates Foundation’s refreshed open access policy that requires all their funded research to be made available as a preprint from January 2025.
Preprints are the version of a research paper shared prior to pee...
The Japan Institutional Gateway is the world’s first Japanese-English dual language open research publishing venue, founded and supported by the University of Tsukuba
Researchers at Nagoya Institute of Technology (NITech) can now publish their work rapidly and with full transparency, as NITech becomes an affiliate of F1000’s Japan Institutional Gateway (JIG), following the lead of the University of Tsukuba.
The Gateway combines the benefits of rapid publication and post-publication peer re...
The Japan Institutional Gateway is the world’s first dual language (English/Japanese) open research publishing venue founded and supported by the University of Tsukuba.
University of Fukui has signed up as an affiliate of F1000’s Japan Institutional Gateway (JIG), following the lead of the University of Tsukuba. This agreement enables researchers from the affiliated institution to publish on JIG: https://f1000research.com/gateways/japan-institutional-gateway. This new affiliate joins Saitama ...
Ahead of COP28, F1000Research and more than 40 Taylor & Francis journals are publishing a new editorial arguing that it is a dangerous mistake to treat the climate and nature crises as if they were separate challenges. World leaders must consider climate change and biodiversity loss as parts of the same complex problem to be tackled together, the comment’s authors say.
Coordinated by the UK Health Alliance on Climate Change (UKHACC), the editorial is being supported by over 200 journals a...
A study published on the Japan Institutional Gateway exploring the relationships between childhood bullying/domestic violence and insomnia among employees in Japan was recently featured in a Medical Xpress article. The research examines insomnia as an important public health problem, affecting about 30% of the worldwide population.
Co-authors (Kei Muroi, Mami Ishitsuka, Daisuke Hori, Shotaro Doki, Tsukasa Takahashi, Tomohiko Ikeda, Tamaki Saito, Sasahara Shinichiro, Ichiyo Matsuzaki) from t...
Scientists believe we are on the cusp of a new, golden age of evolutionary research on the oral microbiome. It may even be possible one day to diagnose whether an ancient human had Alzheimer’s simply by looking at the plaque on their teeth.
In her latest feature for BBC Future, the science writer Jasmin Fox-Skelly explores how researchers are now able to extract and sequence the DNA of ancient oral bacteria using plaque that has remained on the teeth for hundreds of thousands of years, ...
An F1000Research research article that presents a study about transformational entrepreneurship and its effect on readiness for change, psychological capital, and employee performance has been featured in an article published in Forbes highlighting studies exploring how to build a thriving and productive business in 2023.
The article focuses on a list of books which can lend themselves to supporting any business leader and entrepreneur aiming to elevate their business. The study by F100...
F1000 is delighted to announce that it has been awarded a second contract for the ongoing technology and publishing services for Open Research Europe (ORE), the European Commission’s open research publishing venue for Horizon funded research and other eligible European Commission research programs in all subject areas.
F1000 was awarded a 4-year contract in 2020, tasked with establishing and managing an open access publishing Platform for the European Commission, helping them to fulfil their ...
Japan Institutional Gateway is the world’s first dual language (English/Japanese) open research publishing venue founded and supported by the University of Tsukuba.
Saitama University and University of Toyama have signed up as affiliates of F1000’s Japan Institutional Gateway (JIG), following the lead of the University of Tsukuba. These agreements enable researchers from these affiliated institutions to publish on JIG. These two new affiliates join Tokai University, Tsukuba University of Tec...
