Got evaluations?
| 13 July, 2011 | Richard P. Grant |
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Something I was involved with a long time ago, and then promptly forgot about, was working out how authors of F1000-evaluated papers might like to advertise the fact.
Buried deep within our About pages is a little badge you can put on your own website, or your CV, or whatever:
If you’ve had a paper evaluated at F1000 please feel free to use this badge and show off a little. If you’re really nice to me, I might even be persuaded to create a free link for your evaluation page, too.
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Richard,
I was trying to ask you on a twitter with no luck, so I’ll try again here.
I was praying for first collaborative filters online in biomedical field. When F1000 evaluations came up I was so happy to see the first filter in work. It is extremely useful and helpful in my biomedical career as postdoc. But now I’m not able to read it, because of subscription. At some time point, our library (Upenn) was subscribe and I was able to read it. So I actively promoted F1000 on my blog –
http://stemcellassays.com/2010/12/top-5-stem-cell-papers-in-2010-by-faculty-of-1000/
Unfortunately I can’t do it anymore, because, apparently library didn’t extend the subscription. As a postdoc with a family I can’t (honestly) afford any subscription for any scientific journal and F1000. Many PI’s from our campus, whom I know in person, Faculty Members at F1000. Ironically, they can’t access to their own evaluations and evaluations of the same paper by others. I don’t think they will go for individual subscription option. Is it normal?
It puzzles me why collaborative filter for professionals only by subscription. How science can be reproducible and move forward fast in closed access system? Sorry, but I can’t get it. I wonder how many individual subscribers F1000 has, if any?
If I’ll get any money, I’d love to contribute and sponsor free access for other professionals. I live for collaborative filtered freely available information. I wish you luck in F1000 project!
Alexey Bersenev
http://hematopoiesis.info/
Alexey,
thanks for your comment. I was under the impression that FMs automatically got subscriptions. If that’s not happening, then something might have gone wrong–I’ll get someone to look into it.
We’re quite sad that UPenn isn’t subscribing too! Much as we like Open Access, we have to run F1000 as a subscription service else we wouldn’t be able to do it. There’s a large team of editors and coders who keep the system running.
There are no current personal subscriptions (although you can take out a free, 3 week trial) but that is something we’re bringing back later in the year.
Richard,
Thanks for reply! I have to ask them (FM) about access. I assumed that they don’t have it because of library subscription wasn’t extend. I didn’t know that they should have it independently. So, probably nothing wrong technically with your platform.
Ah, OK. Well, if you find out, please let me know. And watch out for our personal subs later on — I’ll announce it here when ready.