Open Access Article Publishing Charges

F1000Research has a community outreach program working collaboratively with researchers to develop and manage gateways and collections, supporting those communities in publishing a wide range of academic outputs. F1000Research continues to innovate around editorial guidelines and policies, which incorporate Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable (FAIR) data principles and software availability to encourage the best open research practices. F1000Research is an actively contributing member of various industry organizations including COPE and OASPA, and works closely with organizations like Crossref, FAIRSharing and ORCID to move towards to a more interoperable and connected research infrastructure.

Articles submitted to F1000Research first undergo an editorial triaging process which assess article scope and eligibility, check for plagiarism, and assess whether the underlying data and software has been made available. Before, during and after these checks the F1000Research editorial team also respond to editorial enquiries and provide information to the authors on what is required in order for the full pre-publication checks to begin.

Our in-house editorial team provide a comprehensive service that consists of a set of rigorous pre-publication checks to ensure that all the editorial policies and reporting and ethical guidelines are adhered to. This service includes in-house data and software support where the team advise and guide authors how to ensure their data is FAIR and can be accessed from the information included in the data availability statement. Upon acceptance, the production team ensure articles are made available in industry standard formats (PDF, HTML, XML) so that all content is fully text and data minable. Before an article is published, the production team provide proofs and perform quality checks on citations and references, image resolutions, any included multimedia, as well as ensuring persistent identifiers are assigned and resolve correctly.

The editorial team identify and invite expert peer reviewers, and verify any reviewer suggestions made by authors. When a review is submitted, the editorial team check the review and its accompanying peer review status and publish the reviews and names of the reviewers alongside the article. All peer review enquiries and peer review support (including helping find suitable reviewers) are managed by our in-house editorial team.

Once an article is published, F1000Research provides authors with detailed article-level metrics to see and measure the impact of their work. F1000Research ensures articles are discoverable by including content in major bibliographic indexers (e.g. PubMed, PubMed Central, MEDLINE, Europe PMC, Scopus etc.) and ensuring the content is preserved in perpetuity by archiving it through Portico. For readers, all articles can be live-tracked and easily found through customisable article alerts and feeds.

F1000Research has a scalable, custom-built publishing infrastructure supporting the open research publishing process including registration, submission, publication, post-publication peer review and article versioning. In addition to publishing technology, F1000Research has a built-in peer reviewer selector tool, technology to safeguard quality control, and an agile central management system to support our gateway communities. F1000Research regularly innovates to make content more dynamic, interactive and reproducible, pioneering many firsts such as living and interactive figures and continuous publishing. F1000Research also develops technology that integrates, syndicates and is interoperable with important systems that support the wider research life cycle.

F1000Research’s marketing and communications team use social media, digital media, monthly newsletters and blogs to promote and highlight authors work. The Marketing and Communications team support our publishing community with promotional material for editorial campaigns, partner sponsorships and academic conference and events. More broadly, they also support the promotion and communication of F1000Research’s open research mission. F1000Research also works closely with institutions, societies and other academic institutions on open access publishing agreements to minimise the administrative effort required by authors and institutions in finding funds to cover publishing costs.

F1000Research regularly surveys authors and has a dedicated editorial service helpdesk where authors, reviewers and readers can send enquiries and/or feedback on their publishing experience. F1000Research welcomes open debate and discussion and supports and manages an open and transparent commenting functionality for registered users.