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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Separating the facts from fiction – It is time to silence the myths and shine a light on the truth about data sharing. In this piece, we cover all angles on the forms and types that data exists as; show you that help is available and who you can turn to for information and guidance; and how data sharing actually establishes and confirms ownership of your data via authorship. 

Roser Vento, Wellcome Sanger Institute, designed CellPhoneDB, a novel repository of cells and their interactions, and applied this computational and genomics tool to study cellular connections from transcriptomics data. In this blog, Roser explains why CellPhoneDB is a unique database and why her team encourages fellow researchers to share their own cell interactions on the database.

A collaborative effort between behavioural scientists, computer scientists and systems architects is busy creating an online ‘Knowledge System’ for the Human Behaviour-Change Project. Emma Norris and Susan Michie introduce us to the project and share a sneak preview of the research that will be published in the collection.

Jana Hutter, a member of the Early Career Researcher Advisory Board for Wellcome Open Research, and an open data convert, who despite all the barriers she had to overcome, now sees open data as the best way forward for research. Here’s her story.