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F1000 preprint server introduces trust marker badges to support transparency and credibility of research

New indicators showcase VeriXiv’s rigorous verification checks, setting new standards for preprint integrity Open research publisher F1000 has announced that its preprint server, VeriXiv, has introduced trust marker badges to provide clear confirmation of the extensive verification checks each preprint undergoes before being made available on the site. This enhancement makes VeriXiv the first major preprint platform to display comprehensive research integrity verification to readers. Launc...

F1000 extends pioneering Open Research Africa publishing platform to all authors in Africa

Researchers submitting to ORA are no longer required to have a grant from a partnering research funder Open Research Africa (ORA), the pioneering platform from F1000 and the Science for Africa Foundation, has announced a significant expansion of its author eligibility criteria. All articles with an author based in Africa can now be submitted, regardless of their funder. Previously, only work supported by an ORA partnering research funder could be published on the platform. Sharing quality ...

Kyoto University joins F1000’s Japan Institutional Gateway

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 Kyoto University can now publish their work rapidly and with full transparency, as Kyoto University 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 review with mec...

Refreshing the F1000 model: transitioning to editorial-led peer reviewer selection

In this blog, F1000's Managing Director, Rebecca Lawrence, outlines the first of several adjustments to the F1000 model. This 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 authors and the research community, and providing transparency across the full process, from underlying r...

Gates Foundation Collaborates with F1000 to Launch Verified Preprint Platform

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...

Nagoya Institute of Technology becomes an affiliate of F1000’s Japan Institutional Gateway

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...

University of Fukui to join F1000’s Japan Institutional Gateway as an affiliate

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 ...

F1000Research and Taylor & Francis Journals Publish Call for Climate Change and Biodiversity Loss to be Tackled as Interlinked Challenges

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...

Japan Institutional Gateway study featured in Medical Xpress

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...

BBC Future features F1000Research ancient oral microbiomes paper  

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, ...