The Faculty of 1000 (F1000) has announced an experiment in online science publishing aimed at sharing research results widely and rapidly, Nature News Blog reports.

Unlike ArXiv, it will use open peer review to check postings afterwards and will charge for submissions.

The F1000 Research project begins publishing later this year, covering biology and medicine. It will accept any format of work (posters, data tables, discursive speculation based on preliminary results, raw data sets and protocols, for example) after an “initial sanity check.”

It encourages authors to keep revising and updating what they have published. And by default, it will use open publishing licenses, allowing others to share and remix posted research (with attribution).

Also see: An arXiv for all of science?