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…
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…
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,…
All articles published in Public Library of Science (PLOS) journals that have been recommended in F1000Prime – more than 3000 articles – now include the F1000Prime recommended badge and score. PLOS have added F1000Prime scores to their sophisticated suite of article-level metrics (ALMs), which helps give authors of important articles more information on the impact…
Today we are launching a project that will greatly improve how life scientists and clinicians connect with F1000 services globally – and locally – and will give scientists interested in scholarly communication some exciting new opportunities and recognition. This initiative, called F1000 Specialists, will allow enthusiastic users of F1000 services to become official, local representatives…
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…
Following on from my post yesterday about the ongoing UK House of Commons Select Committee on Science and Technology peer review enquiry, the oral session that Faculty of 1000 (F1000) took part in focussed on a long and interesting discussion about splitting up the review process into two constituent parts as the Public Library of…
O Rose thou art sick. The invisible worm, That flies in the night In the howling storm: Has found out thy bed Of crimson joy: And his dark secret love Does thy life destroy. –William Blake Peter Lawrence has weighed into the debate on the state of research in an article for Lab Times, boldly…
A couple of weeks ago we had Liz Allen and Claire Vaughan talking about the way the Wellcome Trust assesses its own funding impacts. We’ve been a bit more directly involved with the Medical Research Council (MRC) and how they’re assessing their own grants; working with them to match papers arising from MRC-funded research to…
While checking out Thomson Reuters’ Science Watch I checked to see if their ‘hottest’ scientists from last year (citation-based) were anything like the ones we might choose if we were to have an F1000 top scientist list (evaluation-based). Their number one slot for 2010 goes to Eric S. Lander, who contributed to ten ‘hot’ papers…
