Faculty of 1000 today announces F1000 Research, a fully Open Access
publishing program across biology and medicine that will launch later this
year. The project is intended to address three 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.
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.”
