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The new decade has begun and with it marks the beginning of a new chapter for F1000. Here is Vitek Tracz, Chairman at F1000, to explain the changes taking place, with F1000Research leaving the nest, while we focus our attention on F1000Prime and F1000Workspace to provide a better way of assessing the quality of researchers’ contributions and a state of the art set of software tools.

You may not be aware but we are a private, independent publishing house financed solely from our own resources. We have traditionally developed innovative publishing schemes (including Current Opinion journals, the first community for biomedical researchers BioMedNet, the first Open Access publisher Biomed Central, and more). We have always seen our role to be the establishment of beneficial publishing activities using our own resources and then, once they have demonstrated their benefit and commercial sustainability, passing those activities to larger organisations to continue their development and growth.

As you know, our activities over the last few years have been in 3 separate functional areas:

F1000Prime provides a broad system of selecting and evaluating important new research articles by about 8,000 invited experts (the Faculty) https://f1000.com/prime;

F1000Workspace develops and provides researchers with a set of integrated services helpful in writing and collaborating on research articles, collecting relevant literature, and reference management https://f1000.com/work.

F1000Research develops and operates a new scheme for publishing original research articles https://f1000research.com/about;

We have now reached the stage with F1000Research, which has achieved significant acceptance and adoption by funders and other organisations where it would benefit from a larger publisher with the means and commitment to continue the important publishing model developed by F1000 Research.

Therefore from 10^th January 2020, F1000 Research will become part of Taylor & Francis. We are confident of their commitment to continuing to grow the F1000 Research model and its uptake, and convinced that this will significantly strengthen the task of improving the way researchers can publish and access research.

We are retaining F1000Prime and F1000Workspace and will continue to energetically working on both of them;

F1000Prime’s task of providing a real alternative to the Journal Impact Factor and a better way of assessing the quality of researchers’ contributions – perhaps the most important unsolved task facing the research community.

F1000Workspace will continue to develop and provide to researchers and institutions a state of the art set of software tools to help in the complex tasks of collecting and annotating literature, writing research communications, reference management and collaboration with other researchers in all these tasks.

I look forward to the next chapter in the life of F1000Prime and F1000Workspace.