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Badges to Acknowledge Open Practices

Badges to Acknowledge Open Practices

The aim is to specify a standard by which we can say that a scientific study has been conducted in accordance with open-science principles and provide visual icons to allow advertising of such good behaviours.

What the Open-Access Movement Doesn't Want You to Know

What the Open-Access Movement Doesn't Want You to Know

Advocates of open access tell only one side of the story, ignoring the exploitative practices and poor quality of many open-access journals.

Publisher sacks 31 editors amid fierce row over independence

Publisher sacks 31 editors amid fierce row over independence

Frontiers, based in Lausanne, removed 31 editors from two journals after the editors complained that company staff were interfering with editorial decisions and violating core principles of medical publishing.

Thomson Reuters identifies significant trends impacting the academic reputation of the world's leading universities

Thomson Reuters identifies significant trends impacting the academic reputation of the world's leading universities

Report and survey provide insider’s view into the various components that determine a university’s global academic reputation.

Researchers fret about downgrading of science minister role

Researchers fret about downgrading of science minister role

Jo Johnson is smart and well-connected, but will not attend highest-level policy meetings.

EU science funding: 'the UK cannot afford to lose out on this pot of money'

EU science funding: 'the UK cannot afford to lose out on this pot of money'

The possibility the UK will vote to leave the EU would be a disaster for British science.

Where will the key ideas shaping the future of scientific publishing come from?

Where will the key ideas shaping the future of scientific publishing come from?

Key ideas behind the future of scientific publishing will be done primarily by two groups of outsiders: exceptionally creative user interface designers, and people who design group experiences.

The five deadly sins of science publishing

The five deadly sins of science publishing

This editorial describes the problems with the process of preparing and publishing research findings, and with judging their veracity and significance, and then explains how we at Faculty of 1000 are starting to tackle the ‘deadly sins’ of science publishing.

Lessons from the Séralini GM case

Lessons from the Séralini GM case

The publication, retraction and subsequent republication of the Séralini study raise important scientific and ethical issues for journal editors. Decisions to retract an article should be made on the basis of well-established policies. Articles should be retracted only for serious errors that undermine the reliability of the data or results, or for serious ethical lapses, such as research misconduct or mistreatment of animal or human subjects.

New mechanism for scientific advice

New mechanism for scientific advice

President Juncker welcomes world-leading scientists, discusses role of science in competitiveness and announces new mechanism for scientific advice.

Work smart with Workspace, our new platform for writing papers

Work smart with Workspace, our new platform for writing papers

[8]F1000Workspace offers scientists a comprehensive suite of software and services to write and collaborate on papers, annotate and share references and articles, as well as easily discover and save relevant new articles.

A time limit on postdoctoral contracts: the French experience

A time limit on postdoctoral contracts: the French experience

in 2012 a new law ordered French public employers to offer stable employment to workers after 6 years of short-term contracts. It backfired.