Michael Markie, Publishing Director, F1000
MRC INTEGRATIVE EPIDEMIOLOGY UNIT (IEU)
SEMINAR SERIES
Thursday, 20th April, 2017
16.00 – 17.00 - Room OS6 – Oakfield House
Michael Markie, Publishing Director, F1000
Wellcome Open Research
Chair: Nic Timpson
Abstract
Wellcome Open Research is a new publishing platform that removes barriers to publication, ensuring research findings are quickly discoverable, and replaces evaluation by Journal Impact Factor with article-level assessment.
Fast, transparent publishing
Wellcome Open Research is a new publishing platform that removes barriers to publication, ensuring research findings are quickly discoverable, and replaces evaluation by Journal Impact Factor with article-level assessment.
Publish what you want, when you want
An author-driven approach where you and your collaborators can rapidly publish any of your results, from traditional narrative-based articles to incremental findings, methods, protocols, software tools, datasets and negative/null results.
Biography
Michael Markie is the Publishing Director at F1000. He is an open science, open data and open research advocate contributing to F1000’s effort to change the way science is communicated. He played a pivotal role in helping launch F1000Research in 2013, and now oversees Wellcome Open Research, a new publishing platform owned by Wellcome but run by F1000. Michael is an active member of the open science community and has given many talks/seminars/workshops on the subject at international conferences and research institutions.
ALL WELCOME