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All members of the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) can claim full and free access to F1000Prime until the end of April 2014. This newly developed partnership with the Society gives six months free access to F1000Prime for current members, as a benefit of society membership. New members joining the ISCB before April 2014 will also receive access to F1000Prime.

ISCB, with about 3,000 members worldwide, is a scholarly society dedicated to advancing the scientific understanding of living systems through computation. F1000Prime includes recommendations of more than 15,000 articles in bioinformatics and computational biology. Posters presented at ISCB conferences are already included in F1000Posters, F1000Prime’s sister service.

Diane Kovats, Executive Director of ISCB, said: “At ISCB we continue to look for ways to enhance our member benefits. F1000Prime gives us that opportunity. A tool like F1000Prime, from a technology-oriented publisher like Faculty of 1000, could be a good fit for our members and we’re pleased to enable ISCB members to try out F1000Prime for up to six months.”

Iain Hrynaszkiewicz, Outreach Director at Faculty of 1000, said: “We recently introduced significant updates to the F1000Prime website, which mean that the website is personalized for each user using self-learning technology. We’re excited to see how a particularly web savvy and software-oriented group of scientists – members of the ISCB – will use F1000Prime in their reading and research, and look forward to their feedback on the service.”

ISCB members should visit the ISCB page on F1000Prime to receive free access to F1000Prime until 30 April 2014, and simultaneously create their personalized homepage. Members are asked to enter a few keywords to describe their research interests, choose their subject areas, and then register using the same email address they use for ISCB. If at this point an ISCB member is already registered with F1000 then they just need to sign in.

Once registered and signed in, ISCB members will have the same benefits as institutional and personal subscribers to F1000Prime and be able to:

•    Create a personalized homepage and email alert to new publications that match their research interests, including articles in F1000Prime and in PubMed
•     Access the full text of Faculty Members’ recommendation comments
•    Receive increasingly relevant content recommendations as F1000Prime automatically learns their preferences
•     Understand important papers quickly, through expert opinions
•     View the F1000Prime article rankings
•     Create intelligent SmartSearches and alerts related to specific topics and articles
•     Follow articles and Faculty Members
•     Nominate articles for inclusion in F1000Prime and comment on articles

Any ISCB members with questions about activating their free subscription should contact F1000.