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Michael Markie, Publisher at F1000, and Robert Kiley, Head of Open Research, Wellcome, highlight Wellcome Open Research’s many achievements in its first year of publishing. 

Lived Lives: A Pavee Perspective was an artist-science collaboration project aimed at addressing suicide in the Irish Traveller Community. he results of this collaboration were published as a Research Article and openly peer reviewed on Wellcome Open Research. In this guest blog, researchers, Kevin Malone and Eimear Cleary, and artist, Seamus McGuiness, describe their work.

Authors of an article published on Wellcome Open Research, María Rodríguez-López and Jürg Bähler, discuss why they published their work here. They invited Damien Hermand and Carlo Yague-Sanz to review as they knew their interest in the work from a community email list. Damien and Carlo give their views on the open peer review process.

In one of the first humanities articles published on Wellcome Open Research, Dr Jennifer Novotny describes one of the founding and work of the Princess Louise Scottish Hospital for Limbless Sailors and Soldiers (now known as the Erskine) during what was then called the Great War. In discussion with us here, we find out a bit more from Dr Novotny about the history of the hospital, what lessons are still relevant today, and her experience of publishing in Wellcome Open Research.

A review of the first month of Wellcome Open Research by Michael Markie, Publisher, F1000, and Robert Kiley, Head of Digital Services, Wellcome. It’s been…