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This month marks one year from the launch of AAS Open Research. On this occasion, we reflect on the encouraging response to and impact of the platform and look forward to the future.

We announce a new partnership with the African Society of Human Genetics to launch a Gateway that will maximise the impact of the Society’s work and progress in genetic research in Africa. In this guest blog, Michèle Ramsay, Past President of the African Society of Human Genetics, introduces the new Gateway on AAS Open Research.

Rashmi Rodrigues MD, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Community Health, St. John’s Medical College in Bangalore, India reflects on her experiences visiting Africa and the potential of growing South-South collaborations. On the 3rd July 2018, the excitement of the upcoming academic visit overshadowed the stress of obtaining my visa to South Africa. I was visiting…

In support of International Data Week, Hollydawn Murray introduces our newly overhauled data guidelines. These guidelines have been rolled out across the F1000 platforms. In March, I announced F1000’s renewed commitment to data sharing and intent to focus on data quality. This week I am pleased to release F1000’s updated data guidelines and quick data guides…

Most scientists, even before they have had direct experience as an author, have a sense that the standard practice of scientific publishing is flawed. Starting as students, by power of observation — which scientists tend to be pretty good at — they see that sharing research results takes a long time, that doing so often…

Moses Egesa, a PhD student at Makerere University, discusses an open letter published on AAS Open Research, reporting on vaccines, schistosomiasis and the next steps on advancing controlled human infection models in Uganda.  Moses also talks about the benefits of open peer review for research, to share it among a wide audience and increase visibility…

Jantina de Vries, University of Cape Town, was one of the first researchers to publish on AAS Open Research. Here, Jantina discusses her Open Letter, currently awaiting peer review, which describes a framework for genomics research in Africa, explaining how the ethics of such research and biobanking can be improved. The launch of the AAS…

As I travel to scientific institutions across Africa and the world, whether speaking with a well-established principal investigator at a top academic institution or a student at a small college, one theme invariably arises: more than experiments gone wrong, more than funding or lack thereof, more than still wondering if your visa will come through…