Faculty of 1000 plans to launch a fully Open Access publishing program: F1000 Research

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.

Faculty of 1000 is also part of the BioSharing community!

[From their press release....]

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.”