UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health to launch publishing platform with F1000

UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health will become the first to launch an institute-focused publishing platform with F1000, a provider of a suite of services to support researchers, institutions and funders. The platform, UCL Child Health Open Research (https://childhealthopenresearch.org.uk), will start publishing in Q4 of 2017 and allow any UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health or any other UCL researcher studying child health to publish with greater speed and transparency. UCL Child Health Open Research will follow in the footsteps of two funder-based platforms, Wellcome Open Research and Gates Open Research, both of which are based on a publishing model pioneered by F1000Research that first launched four years ago. The model permits immediate publication followed by transparent invited peer review and inclusion of all supporting data. This enables reanalysis, replication attempts and data reuse – bringing benefits to the research community, as well as to society more broadly. The publication platform will help the dissemination of research outputs from UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, where some of the world’s top research in child health takes place. This research can sometimes focus on rare diseases or small clinical trials, which can be difficult to find the right publication outlet for. UCL Child Health Open Research will publish a wide range of types of research, from traditional impactful research, methods and protocols, ...
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