Wellcome Money — Involvement with F1000 Opens Door on Sketchy Peer Review, COIs, and Spending Decisions | The Scholarly Kitchen

"The Wellcome Trust journal announcement sowed confusion and consternation from the start. Was it a journal, a preprint experiment, some new and strange hybrid? Why would Wellcome, which is funding eLife currently and recently committed to an extended term of support, also fund a branded F1000 journal? If F1000 Research already exists, why create another title that seems to do the same things and take the same approach, but within the strictures of Wellcome-funded research? Why work with a commercial publisher?"