Jan 31, 2012 |
Faculty of 1000 introduces a novel Open Access publishing venture: F1000 Research
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(Nanowerk News) Faculty of 1000 (F1000) today announces 1000 Research, a new fully Open Access publishing program
across biology and medicine that will launch later this year. It is intended to address the major issues
afflicting scientific publishing today: timely dissemination of research, peer review, and sharing of data.
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Diverging from traditional journal publishing, F1000 Research will offer immediate publication; open,
post-publication peer review; open revisioning of work including ongoing updates; and will encourage
raw data deposition and publication. In addition, F1000 Research will accept a broad range of article
formats and will encourage content types that are now routinely rejected such as negative results, case
studies, thought experiments, preliminary analyses, and incomplete datasets.
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The problems with current approaches to publishing novel scientific research are well documented. It no
longer makes sense to wait months or years to read, comment, or build upon another lab's work, and
the standard closed, pre-publication peer review process has been extensively criticized. Furthermore,
there is a growing recognition that the raw data behind novel findings need to be shared (barring any
privacy concerns) to enable re-use and ensure reproducibility. F1000 Research will work with the
community to address all of these issues, and the initial platform will be a forum to do this.
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Commenting on the launch of F1000 Research, Vitek Tracz, Chairman and Founder of Faculty of 1000 Ltd
said: "The Open Access model has addressed effectively the issue of inadequate access to research
findings. It did not address the major issues around communicating the research finding: the delays in
access, the inadequacies of peer review, and the complexities of data publishing. It is up to collaboration
between researchers and publishers to come up with a solution, and we are determined to be a part of
it."
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Dr Rebecca Lawrence, who is leading the project at F1000 said: "Many questions remain as we fine-tune
F1000 Research to break new ground in scholarly publishing. We therefore invite those working in the
bioresearch community, institutions, funders, data centres and repositories, and data mining and
informatics groups to join us in open discussion and debate about these many outstanding issues – via
the RSS feed or by Twitter: @F1000Research."
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To find out more about F1000 Research, please contact Rebecca Lawrence on +44 (0)20 7631 9154 or
email [email protected]. For more information, visit http://f1000research.com.
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To find out more about Faculty of 1000, please contact Eleanor Howell on +44 (0)20 7631 9129 or email
[email protected]. For more information, visit http://f1000.com.
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About F1000
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Faculty of 1000 is a unique online service that selects, rates, and evaluates important articles based on
the opinions of global leaders in biology and medicine. The distinguished international Faculty identify
articles that impact their research, providing a rapidly updated, authoritative guide to the life science
literature.
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