This blog post was co-written by Michael Markie (Associate Publisher at F1000Research) and Joao Peres (Product Manager at F1000).
We are very excited to announce that F1000Workspace is now compatible with Google Docs. This is something our development team have worked hard on implementing over the past few months and we believe it offers significant improvements for the efficiency and flow of writing scientific papers and grant proposals directly in the browser.
With over a million reference uploads and a recent mention in a Nature article, F1000Workspace is being used by thousands of biomedical researchers. Here’s 10 top reasons why: 1. Designed for scientists F1000Workspace was designed and tailored for biomedical scientists to help radically improve how scientific papers are collaborated on and written. 2. One-click reference…
Importing references from the web shouldn’t be hard – and now it isn’t. Our new collaborative writing platform, F1000Workspace, has a nifty browser extension that allows you to instantly capture articles as you’re surfing the web, with just a click of a button. Have you ever saved an article only to forget later on the…
Yesterday we launched F1000Workspace, the most significant update to the F1000 suite of services to date. It offers scientists a comprehensive suite of software and services to write and collaborate on papers, annotate and share references and articles, as well as easily discover and save relevant new articles. Even better, it allows you to access…
We’re constantly thinking of ways to help life scientists and clinicians in their everyday tasks. We’re ready to give a special preview of F1000’s newest features in development, and if you’re in the NYC area on Tuesday, June 24, come join us for an introduction into what’s in our pipeline. After you get a glance…
We’d like to invite you to an evening at F1000’s London office on Tuesday May 6th to preview the latest F1000 technology under development, specifically focused on writing and organizing research papers. Your views will help us shape these products. View Larger Map The event will commence with a presentation from CEO Daniel Marovitz followed…
We’re pleased to announce an agreement with the Westchester Academic Library Directors Organization (WALDO), that provides their members with the opportunity to obtain institutional subscriptions to F1000Prime. Supporting over 1,000 member libraries, WALDO offers consortial discounts for over 10,000 products and services. For more information, please visit https://waldolib.org. We’ll be hosting a webinar for WALDO…
A growing number of tools aim to help scientists filter and discover relevant papers and, in some cases, provide information on research impact not based on the Impact Factor. Amongst these alternative or article-level metrics tools is F1000Prime. F1000Prime adds expert commentary and context to the raw numbers – social media shares, page views, etc…
Much of the power and value of F1000Prime is down to the caliber of the Faculty who recommend articles. But we also encourage non-Faculty (users and subscribers) to nominate articles for inclusion in F1000Prime. Their suggestions are considered by Faculty Members who may then write recommendations. To make this process more efficient than just emailing…
Follow an article If a user of F1000Prime follows an article it means he or she will be alerted to new recommendations and dissenting opinions on the article and user comments. To follow an article, click ‘Save to MyF1000/Follow’ on any article page (see below), while logged in. F1000Prime authors – of published papers recommended…
