NIHR has launched a new publishing platform – NIHR Open Research. The platform supports the entire research life cycle by allowing NIHR researchers to publish study findings, incremental findings, case reports, and even negative findings.
Following a successful pilot, the NIHR Open Research platform has now been opened up to all types of NIHR-funded and supported research. The platform uses a post-publication peer review model facilitated by F1000, accelerating the publishing process while ensuring the quality of the research.
Any NIHR research across clinical evaluation, technology development, health services, public health, and social care can be published on NIHR Open Research. This approach means that researchers can put all information from their studies into the public domain, increasing the discoverability and reach of their research.
Making all types of research findings rapidly available on NIHR Open Research will mean that other researchers can build on new ideas straight away and avoid the risk of duplication so that new treatments and interventions for patients will become available quicker. Research published on the platform also includes links to all supporting data, allowing reanalyses, replication, and reuse and making it easier for researchers to collaborate.
NIHR is the world's first health research funder to publish comprehensive accounts of its commissioned research within its publicly and permanently available journals via the NIHR Journals Library. NIHR Open Research and the NIHR Journals Library ensure that findings from all NIHR-funded and supported research are publicly available.
The NIHR Open Research has been piloted using research findings from studies funded by the NIHR Research for Patient Benefit (RfPB) programme to increase the transparency of the RfPB portfolio.
NIHR Open Research is now available for article submissions across all NIHR research programmes, infrastructure, schools, and units.
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