Since the launch of the Wellcome Trust/DBT India Alliance gateway on Wellcome Open Research platform at the Fellows meeting in New Delhi, there has been a real drive from the India Alliance (IA) community to publish their research on the platform. Shahid Jameel, CEO, Wellcome Trust/DBT India Alliance and Robert Kiley, Head of Open Research, Wellcome Trust, UK tells us more about open research and the gateway.
Dorothy Bishop, Professor of Developmental Neuropsychology, University of Oxford, published the first full Registered Report on an open post publication peer review model. Her research published earlier this year in Wellcome Open Research looks at the impact of sex chromosomes on neurodevelopment. Dorothy tells us why she is an enthusiast for this new form of journal article, which is gaining popularity with 142 journals so far adopting this format as part of their regular submission process.
Hollydawn Murray, Data Publishing Lead at F1000Research, introduces our newly overhauled data guidelines.
What are the ethical considerations around volunteer infection? Researchers, Maureen Njue and Dorcas Kamuya, discuss their research presenting one of the first studies of a controlled…
A Q&A with Suzannah Biernoff about her research on the cultural pre-history of face transplants. This is a fascinating piece of research, why did you…
On Monday 10th September, we gathered at the Wellcome Trust to explore the issues surrounding this year’s theme of ‘diversity and inclusion in peer review’ for peer review week. It was a stimulating discussion chaired by Jim Smith, Director of Science at Wellcome and Wellcome Open Research advisory board member. Here is our summary of the event.
David Carr, Programme Manager for Open Research at Wellcome, introduces a new pilot initiative with Springer Nature to help Wellcome funded researchers make their data more discoverable and useable.
Charli Colegate, Portfolio Developer in the Humanities & Social Science research funding department at Wellcome talks about how Wellcome Open Research can help researchers overcome some of the issues associated with publishing social science and humanities research.
Michael Markie, Publisher at F1000, and Robert Kiley, Head of Open Research, Wellcome, update us on the latest innovations that have taken place on Wellcome Open Research so far this year.
Michael Markie, Publisher at F1000, and Robert Kiley, Head of Open Research, Wellcome ,introduce us to Wellcome Open Research’s latest addition – the ALSPAC Gateway.