The International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) and F1000Research have announced the formation of an innovative partnership to produce the ISCB Community Journal - a new, dedicated, digital channel on the F1000Research publishing platform.
The ISCB Community Journal will be launched on F1000Research this summer to provide the ISCB's growing membership and conference attendees with an affordable, open publishing platform for all research presented at official and affiliated ISCB conferences.
Scientists who belong to the ISCB's Communities of Special Interest (COSIs) or who attend its Special Interest Group (SIG) meetings will also be able to take advantage of the new channel.
The initiative will enable ISCB to support the publication of all research in a range of formats in one centralised channel for the first time. Articles based upon the research presented at official and affiliated conferences will be published using F1000Research's immediate publication and transparent peer review model, without limitation on article size, type, or perceived impact.
In addition to peer-reviewed articles the channel will enable attendees to share and publish all the academic posters and slides that are presented at the various ISCB conferences and host this shared research together with traditional articles in one searchable domain. By doing so, each conference, event and workshop related to the ISCB will be able to extend the visibility of everything that was presented at the meeting and therefore broadcast their research beyond the conference hall to the wider scientific community.
