Not radical, just sensible – what’s driving Vitek Tracz and F1000?

Faculty of 1000 Chairman Vitek Tracz reveals in an interview published today in Science Magazine much of what is driving the development of F1000’s services for life scientists and clinicians. In short, it’s solutions – solutions to long-established problems in scholarly communication, which, with better more efficient use of web technology, are solvable: 1. Better…

F1000 Community – the inaugural meet-up in London

Faculty of 1000 look forward to welcoming local members of the F1000 Community to our inaugural meet-up, here in London. This is a free networking evening, aimed at junior researchers, to share with you the latest developments at F1000, and introduce the F1000 Specialists programme. The F1000 Community includes Faculty Members and Associate Faculty Members;…

Ellison Medical Foundation New Scholars in Aging 2013

Congratulations to F1000Prime Hematology Faculty Member Eirini Papapetrou on receiving the New Scholar Award in Aging from the Ellison Medical Foundation for Haploinsufficiency of protein-coding genes as an age-related disease mechanism. The New Scholars in Aging Award is given to candidates selected from medical institutions in the US on an invitation-only basis. The award supports…

#f1000tour dates for the rest of 2013

With the end of the summer here in the northern hemisphere the nights are growing longer and, with the start of the academic year, so is our schedule of external presentations, panels and workshops. Below is a list of our external presentations/talks, panel discussions, and educational workshops until the end of 2013, so far. These…

Embrace information overload and understand research impact

On 15th November, Faculty of 1000’s outreach team will be running a 3-hour workshop at the University of Oxford’s Medical Science Division on how to ‘Embrace information overload and understand research impact’. The course aims to demonstrate how the internet is continuing to improve the ways in which life scientists and clinical researchers can access,…