Wellcome Open Research

A global effort to map every cell of the human body

By Guest Author

22 October 2020

Muzlifah Haniffa is a co-coordinator of the Developmental Biological Network within the Human Cell Atlas (HCA) initiative. In this blog, she tells us more about this global initiative, requiring multidisciplinary expertise, and how its ambitious effort to map every cell in the human body can improve our understanding of human health, as well as diagnosing, monitoring, and treating disease.

Keeping up with COVID-19 – using living systematic reviews to close the evidence gap

By Guest Author

19 October 2020

Covid-19 is an emerging infectious disease, for which our understanding is rapidly and constantly changing. This is why Living systematic reviews (LSR) could be a beneficial approach to both prevent systematic reviews from going out of date and to keep up with rapidly moving fields. In this blog post, James Barker, discusses this and explains why LSRs are a valuable and practical way of monitoring and gathering available evidence on Covid-19.

Price Transparency on Wellcome Open Research

By Jack Nash

01 October 2020

In this blog post Michael Markie, Publishing Director at F1000 Research, outlines the upcoming adjustments to the pricing structure on Wellcome Open Research, whilst Robert Kiley, Head of Open Research at Wellcome discusses the importance of price and service transparency of the platform and how this aligns with the Plan S principles.

Trust is built on openness and transparency

By Jack Nash

24 September 2020

In our second blog post for Peer Review Week, the Peer Review Team talk about how we build trust between our authors, reviewers and the wider research community, discussing our author-led process, which means no editorial bias, and going through the revision and response process here at Wellcome Open Research.

Peer Review: A matter of trust

By Jack Nash

22 September 2020

As this week (21st-25th September) marks Peer Review Week, the Peer Review Team delve into the meaning of this year’s theme of ‘Trust in Peer Review’ and explore how our transparent peer review process is ideally suited to building trust.