Wellcome Open Research

Peer review as practised at Wellcome Open Research

By Jack Nash

30 January 2018

In November 2016 Wellcome became the first research funder to launch a publishing platform for the exclusive use of its grantholders. Wellcome Open Research, run on behalf of Wellcome by F1000, uses a model of immediate publication followed by invited, post-publication peer review. All reviews are citable and posted to the platform along with the identities […]

Top 5 blog posts for 2017

By Jack Nash

20 December 2017

As we draw to the end of another year here at Wellcome Open Research, we thought it would be the perfect opportunity to take a look back at what you’ve been reading the most on our blog. We share with you what have been our most read posts in 2017 covering a wide range of topics from peer review to milestones.

A geo-coded inventory of mosquitoes in Africa

By Guest Author

06 December 2017

Charles Mbogo talks about the largest database of malaria mosquito carriers and its role for future control and malaria elimination programmes in Africa. This inventory was recently published and peer reviewed on Wellcome Open Research as a research article. Inventories entailing distributions of Anopheles mosquitoes go back to the turn of the last century. These […]

Gateways – dedicated spaces for publishing Wellcome-funded research

By Jack Nash

20 July 2017

We’ve added a new functionality on Wellcome Open Research. Gateways offer Wellcome-funded researchers and communities the opportunity to create their own branded “publishing home” for their research outputs designed to suit their needs. The first Gateway to be launched on the platform is for one of the Africa programmes, the KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme (KWTRP), Kenya.