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.
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is why Living systematic reviews (LSR) could be a beneficial approach to both prevent systematic reviews from going out of date and to keep up with rapidly moving fields.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.
By Jack Nash
15 October 2020
As the drive for transparent research progresses, the ECRAB invites you to be part of the greater good and submit a data note for publication 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.
By Jack Nash
28 September 2020
F1000 Research and Wellcome Open Research have today announced the introduction of a new policy which enables transgender scholars to change their name on publications.
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.
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.
By Guest Author
15 September 2020
In this blog post, Quentin Leclerc, a PhD student working on antimicrobial resistance, discusses his and his colleagues’ article, published on Wellcome Open Research, and explains why they chose to use not one, but four, open datasets and the benefits of doing so.