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It has been an excellent week for F1000Workspace!

We’ve received news that we were named ‘Best New End User Product’ at this year’s Charleston Advisor Readers’ Choice Awards.

The Readers’ Choice Awards – now in their fifteenth year – identify and honour the best digital products for libraries, and we are over the moon to receive this recognition.
Three years ago, I was a postdoc working in developmental neurobiology, busy with my experiments and struggling to find the time to keep my references in order. More importantly, I didn’t have time to filter through the thousands of articles published every week to catch the ones that really mattered to my project.

Fortunately, I had the opportunity to join F1000 and immediately started work on a new application – F1000Workspace – to solve these problems… as well as other annoying issues with traditional reference managers.

Working in collaboration with researchers and academics, we decided to tackle three main problems and make it easier for scientists to:

1- Discover relevant papers for their research

2- Collect, organize and access references and PDFs

3- Share and collaborate with colleagues

Now, three years later, we are proud to receive our first award. This is a reward for everybody involved; developers, designers, UX, marketing, sales. Thank you to all our students, academics and researchers that use F1000Workspace and have help us to make it a great tool.

F1000Workspace A highly rated workspace where scholars and researchers may collaborate to write papers, import references from other reference managers, easily share new citations with co-authors, annotate, discuss articles with collaborators, and other great features.

This is why we are loved:

Secure collaboration space
Work more effectively with your colleagues by sharing articles and notes. You can also share your work for feedback in a secure environment.

Easy to import and manage references
Intuitive and easy reference management. You can keep all your references and PDFs online and conveniently access them from any computer.

Annotate articles online and save references as you browse
When browsing the web, you can save, highlight and add comments to PDFs and webpages.

Citation tools for writing papers
In Word or Google Docs; it has never been so easy to find the right citations

Collaborate in writing papers
Share a reference list with all co-authors and reduce problems in keeping the bibliography updated when adding or removing references from a manuscript.

For more information about the Charleston Advisor Readers’ Choice, visit their website at www.charlestonco.com. The full list of winners can be found here.

Check for yourself how great F1000Workspace is at f1000.com/work or contact us on info@f1000.com