F1000 and figshare Case Study

F1000Research is an Open Science publishing platform for life scientists, offering immediate publication followed by transparent refereeing of scientific papers. Managing Director Rebecca Lawrence says that the two-year old platform is changing the way publishing is done in a number of respects.

First, it reduces the time between when a researcher is ready to share their research and when it actually becomes publicly available for the scientific community to use, analyze and discuss the findings (typically about 7 days). This is largely achieved through process innovation.

Secondly, F1000Research’s transparent invited peer review process, conducted post-publication, aims to tackle the bias that is inherent in the traditional anonymous peer-review and pre-publication processes, where papers move from journal to journal, causing a negative impact on both speed of publication and disclosure of findings.

This case study looks at why F1000 chose figshare for their data hosting and visualisation needs.