F1000 partnered with WALDO

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…

New Fellows of the Royal Society

The Royal Society is the national academy of science for the UK and one of the oldest learned societies operating today. Each year the Royal Society elects new Fellows, Foreign Members, Honorary Fellows and Royal Fellows through a peer-review process from a pool of candidates suggested by the existing Fellowship. This year’s election results were…

What is impact?

Last week the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA) launched, with Faculty of 1000 as one of the original 75 scientific organizations to sign the Declaration. DORA is a laudable initiative and anyone with an interest in improving the way we assess the quality and impact of research should read and, if you agree…

Science without Borders

This is a guest post from Cristiana Santos de Macedo, a Research Fellow from the Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, who works with Faculty Member Carlos Morel in the Global Health section of the Public Health & Epidemiology Faculty at F1000Prime. Here, Cristiana tells us of her experiences with the Brazilian Government scholarship program…

Dick Heinegård

It is with great sadness that we note the death of Dick Heinegård, former F1000Prime Section Head in Rheumatology & Clinical Immunology, who passed away on May 1st. Dick Heinegård was Professor of Medical and Physiological Chemistry at Lund University in Sweden from 1983, and joined F1000Prime in 2005 as head of the Cartilage Disorders…