Video: From open access to open science | Discussions – F1000 Research

Use the link to access the video introduced as follows: "To close our evening of talks about new models of peer review and open science, F1000 Founder Vitek Tracz took the stage. Tracz previously founded BioMedCentral, and has been at the forefront of the open access movement. He started his talk by expressing concern at realizing the damage that the publishing industry has done to sharing of information in the sciences. Rather than help science, publishers have slowed down science, and made it more difficult. Open access was a response to this realization, and initially consciously focussed only on access to the literature. When the first open access publishers started, there was a lot of resistance from large publisher. But now open access is well established, and it’s time to address the remaining closed areas, beyond access to papers. This is where F1000Research comes in. In the remainder of his talk, Tracz describes the concepts behind F1000Research: immediate publication, transparent peer review, the ability to update the paper with newer versions, and the inclusion of all data ..."