Somewhere over the rainbow
Somewhere in the depths of PLoS One an article lurks… Liz Allen and her friends at the Wellcome performed an interesting study on papers that came out of labs that were at least partially funded by...
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More than a number (in my little red book)
Shirley Wu kicked off an interesting conversation on Friendfeed yesterday, reporting on a conversation that questioned the ‘quality’ of our old friend PLoS One. Now there’s a debate that’s going to go...
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Modern way
You might have noticed that I’ve been tweeting random recent evaluations. I do this a couple of times a day (well, that’s the plan, at least), simply highlighting stuff that I find interesting, without...
View ArticleYou can't always get what you want
I was at the Internet Librarian International on Thursday and Friday of last week. Not the sort of conference I’m used to attending but as we were sponsoring it we had a speaking slot, and I seemed the...
View ArticleOn being systematic
Over on another planet blog Darren Saunders asks what is an Associate Faculty Member (AFM). There was some sales training on this subject last week and I sat in, so I should know. I’ve also been...
View ArticlePrivate investigations
One of the really great things about science is its potential for self-correction. If you have an hypothesis, a result (strange or otherwise), a set of data, it can be tested by anyone. This is...
View ArticleFull disclosure
Do you receive more than a million dollars in consulting fees? Did you declare it when you published that paper? Probably not, according to a paper in Arch Intern Med, From Disclosure to Transparency:...
View ArticleUK PubMed Central
Open Access literature databases! There, that’s grabbed your attention, hasn’t it? No? Strangely, talking to most researchers about publication databases and repositories has them either nodding off or...
View ArticleOn taking a good look at ourselves
Perhaps the most distinctive and powerful thing about Science is its tendency, or rather proclivity to ask searching, even uncomfortable questions. And unlike belief systems, or ideological and...
View ArticleSense about peer review
You might have seen that the UK government has released its Select Committee’s report on peer review in science. The chair of the committee, Andrew Miller MP, says that the “general oversight of...
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Retraction index
In case you haven’t seen it already, there’s an intriguing new article in Infection and Immunity, Retracted Science and the Retraction Index. It’s by the Editor in Chief of Infect. Immun. Ferric C....
View ArticleF1000 SciVerse app launched
We are excited to announce that a Faculty of 1000 app is now available to Science Direct subscribers within Elsevier’s SciVerse Applications Gallery, allowing researchers, clinicians and students to...
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Taking the pain out of searching your notes: a year of F1000Workspace
If you peer back through the mists of time – back to the last century – and picture an academic, it is likely her office would be full of journals, papers covered in post-it notes, highlighters and...
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