We’ve received two more great videos from F1000 Specialists Fiona Russell and Rosie Griffiths for the F1000 Specialists’ video competition (view below). Fiona talks about her research at Professor Brain’s lab (yes, he’s really called that) looking at the reasons why arthritis pain gets worse in cold conditions, and Rosie describes her PhD in the…
We are delighted to welcome Michael Eisen to F1000’s International Advisory Board. Michael Eisen initially joined F1000 in September 2001 as a Faculty Member in the Genomics & Genetics Faculty. Best known for being a co-founder of PLOS (Public Library of Science) in 2000, he is also a professor of Genetics, Genomics and Development at…
Last week, we held a focus group with local scientists at our New York City office to discuss their experiences with reference management systems and give them a preview of F1000’s newest features in development. Here is a Storify of how the evening went down. Thanks to everyone who attended!
We’d like to invite you to an evening at F1000’s London office on Tuesday May 6th to preview the latest F1000 technology under development, specifically focused on writing and organizing research papers. Your views will help us shape these products. View Larger Map The event will commence with a presentation from CEO Daniel Marovitz followed…
Respected business leader and web entrepreneur Daniel Marovitz has joined F1000 as Chief Executive Officer. [Full press release here.] Working closely with and reporting to Vitek Tracz, Daniel will have responsibility for all aspects of the F1000 businesses. He brings a wealth of experience in technology and Internet business, with a career spanning computer technology,…
We’ve introduced a new feature to F1000Trials – the ability to browse by clinical trial name using the trial registry number. To reduce bias and promote transparency in research, most medical journals require clinical trials to be registered in a trial registry, such as ClinicalTrials.Gov. Registered trials are given a trial name and a unique…
We’re pleased to announce an agreement with the Westchester Academic Library Directors Organization (WALDO), that provides their members with the opportunity to obtain institutional subscriptions to F1000Prime. Supporting over 1,000 member libraries, WALDO offers consortial discounts for over 10,000 products and services. For more information, please visit https://waldolib.org. We’ll be hosting a webinar for WALDO…
The @F1000 Twitter round up — the most popular tweets this week, and other interesting snippets from the world of Twitter.
We’ve just made some fundamental changes to the way the F1000 site looks and works – basic improvements that we know you’ll notice – and we want to explain here what they are and why they matter. F1000 becomes F1000 Prime We’re changing the name of our core article recommendation service from F1000 to F1000…
An update on the latest website and behind-the-scenes developments from Jane Hunter, F1000’s managing director.
