F1000Prime in top 10% of online library resources
| 7 February, 2014 | Iain Hrynaszkiewicz |
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An independent review in a leading journal for information professionals has ranked F1000Prime in the top 10% of more than 800 online library resources.
F1000Prime scored 4.5 out of a possible maximum of 5 stars and was most highly praised for the quality of the content in the database. The review was published in the January issue of The Charleston Advisor, a journal aimed at librarians and which publishes critical reviews of web products.
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The score of 4.5/5 is a composite of scores across different categories – the journal scores for content, user interface/search-ability, pricing, and contract options.
In scoring F1000Prime 4.75/5 for content, the reviewer said that having the opinions of recognized experts, rather than commentary and ratings that are merely crowd-sourced, was particularly valuable.
“The content in this product rates highly because it is user [Faculty Member] driven. Entries are tagged for quick scanning of their applicability. Additionally, the rationales, commentary and dissenting opinions add a rich context to the studies themselves. Because reviewers are peer-appointed there is a layer of credibility built into the system rather than defaulting to something akin to user ratings in Netflix,” she said.
This review was carried out in autumn 2013, shortly after the personalized homepage was first introduced, but before we launched our journal club tool.
F1000Prime is adding new features and fine-tuning existing ones regularly, and is expanding further in 2014 into a collection of tools for discovering, assessing and sharing articles. As well as including many encouraging comments, the review also identified ways we can improve – and in some cases have already improved – the usability of the website, and we appreciate the feedback.
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We should congratulate the F1000 team for this important achievement. Even PubMed is adopting this model in PubMed Commons.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedcommons/
Thanks Ali. I’d say the PubMed Commons model is a little different in that anyone with a paper indexed in PubMed can join PubMed Commons. As you know, on F1000Prime just Faculty Members can select articles for inclusion in the service, and then rate and comment on the articles. Users of F1000Prime can then leave comments on the article recommendations to add their point of view. We also use a standard article classification and scoring system and try to ensure wide literature coverage with F1000Prime. But it’s great to see open, post-publication peer review becoming even more widespread through PubMed Commons. I hope PubMed Commons will also be widely supported by the scientific community.