About

F1000 Research is a new fully Open Access publishing program across biology and medicine that will start publishing 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. Diverging from traditional journal publishing, F1000 Research will offer immediate publication; open, post-publication peer review; open revisioning of work including ongoing updates; and encourage raw data deposition and publication. In addition, F1000 Research will accept a broad range of article formats and encourages content types that are now routinely rejected such as negative results, case studies, thought experiments, preliminary analyses and incomplete datasets.

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 towards addressing all of these issues.

See our opening post for more detailed information of our plans.

Partners

Journal Policies

Journals and publishers that have confirmed that they would not view publication of datasets with a DOI and associated protocol information as prior publication, if a more standard (analysis/conclusions) article based on the data was subsequently submitted to them:

BMC journals
BMJ Group journals
Elsevier journals
IOS Press journals
The Lancet journals
Nature-titled journals
PLoS journals
RSC journals
SAGE journals
Adv Clin Neurosci Rehabil
Bioinformatics
Cardiovasc Ther
Ecol Lett
Eur J Neurosci
Int J Obstet Anesth
J Clin Invest
J Eat Disord
J Neurol
J Neurosci
J Pain
J Plant Ecol
Neurourol Urodyn
New Engl J Med
Proc Natl Acad Sci USA
PROTEOMICS J
Science

Respondents that would see the publication of data with a DOI and protocol information as potential prior publication:

Cell Press journals
Ann Oncol