We’re delighted to be able to congratulate Ed Boyden, Faculty Member in Neuroscience, on recently being awarded the prestigious ‘Brain Prize’. The €1 million Brain Prize is awarded by the Grete Lundbeck European Brain Research Foundation in Copenhagen in recognition of highly influential and original work on brain research. Ed and his co-recipients Ernst Bamberg,…
This is a guest post from Dawn Sweeney, an Associate Faculty Member from the University of Rochester Medical Center, New York. She works with Faculty Member Suzanne Karan, and they are members of the ‘Airway/Respiratory Physiology’ Section in Anesthesiology and Pain Management. Here, Dawn tells us about a poem published in Anesthesiology that makes her…
F1000Research, one of a number of major open access journal launches in 2012, has been fortunate to have support from the life science community – for submitting papers and reviewing them. We’ve been thinking about the best ways to show our appreciation to the early adopters of F1000Research’s Open Science approach to publishing papers, data,…
In the next few weeks, F1000 staff and guest speakers will be presenting our various products in different cities in the UK and US and attending a number of conferences. As usual, you can expect to see some of our staff exhibiting at major scientific conferences, but we have a few extra events planned as…
Here are this week’s picks from the @F1000 feed over the past week, and some other interesting tweets…
A growing number of tools aim to help scientists filter and discover relevant papers and, in some cases, provide information on research impact not based on the Impact Factor. Amongst these alternative or article-level metrics tools is F1000Prime. F1000Prime adds expert commentary and context to the raw numbers – social media shares, page views, etc…
Much of the power and value of F1000Prime is down to the caliber of the Faculty who recommend articles. But we also encourage non-Faculty (users and subscribers) to nominate articles for inclusion in F1000Prime. Their suggestions are considered by Faculty Members who may then write recommendations. To make this process more efficient than just emailing…
Follow an article If a user of F1000Prime follows an article it means he or she will be alerted to new recommendations and dissenting opinions on the article and user comments. To follow an article, click ‘Save to MyF1000/Follow’ on any article page (see below), while logged in. F1000Prime authors – of published papers recommended…
The top Tweets from @F1000 over the past week, and highlights from elsewhere on Twitter…
The Canada Gairdner International Award is an annual prize that recognises significant contributions by biomedical scientists to understanding, treating and curing human disease. Recipients are nominated and then selected by two panels of leading Canadian and international scientists, and many previous recipients have gone on to win the Nobel Prize. Congratulations to Stephen Elledge, Faculty…
