F1000, a provider of a suite of services to support researchers, institutions and funders, has announced a partnership with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to launch an open research publishing platform. Due to launch in the third quarter of 2017, Gates Open Research (https://gatesopenresearch.org) will be a new publishing option that will increase the speed and transparency of scholarly publishing by Gates-funded researchers. Gates Open Research will use services developed by F1000 and follow the same publishing model that has been established for F1000Research over the past four years and adopted by Wellcome Open Research, to encourage faster and more transparent publication of research outputs....