We’re pleased to announce that Bev Acreman has been appointed Commercial Director of F1000. Bev, who will take up the post at the beginning of April, was formerly Vice President of Marketing & Sales, Open Research, at Springer Nature – a global research, educational and professional publisher. At Springer Nature, part of Bev’s role included…
Since we launched F1000Workspace earlier this year, thousands of researchers and clinicians have signed up for our suite of tools to help them keep track of the articles they’ve read, discover new articles, collaborate with co-workers and write their articles. Together, they have now saved more than one million references to their F1000Workspace projects! That’s…
We at F1000 are pleased to announce the appointment of Rebecca Lawrence as Managing Director. Rebecca was previously Managing Director of F1000Research, the open science publishing platform of F1000. During the 6 years Rebecca has worked at F1000, she has launched and established both F1000Research and F1000Posters (the open access repository of posters and slides,…
After a successful beta phase F1000Journal Clubs launches today, with a variety of options for accessing and trialling the service. Read the press release here. F1000Prime is, amongst other things, about saving researchers’ valuable time. Scientists can spend hours each month critically evaluating published research in their journal clubs, and a well-organized journal club can…
We’ve hit a major milestone on F1000Prime – we’ve just published our 150,000th article recommendation! Submissions of article recommendations have risen each year since we launched F1000Prime in 2002: in 2013 we received a whopping 16,654 submissions. This has been possible because of continued growth in the numbers of Faculty Members who select articles –…
“[L]ately I have begun to worry that my F1000Prime Alerts know me better than I know myself,” — Prof Gerald F Joyce, The Scripps Research Institute Today we’re publicly launching a new personalized and customizable homepage for all users of F1000Prime – an update that fundamentally changes how users of F1000Prime interact with the website…
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…
We are excited to announce that a Faculty of 1000 app is now available to Science Direct subscribers within Elsevier’s SciVerse Applications Gallery, allowing researchers, clinicians and students to easily tap into the collective knowledge of our 10,000 expert Faculty Members while browsing articles on ScienceDirect and Scopus. Once a SciVerse user adds the app,…
F1000 extends ‘Changes Clinical Practice’ recommendations to a wider audience.
Adapted from a recent press release Controlling brain circuits with light: F1000 Biology Reports takes a look at the story behind the invention of optogenetics Last week we published, in our open access, peer-reviewed journal F1000 Biology Reports, the open access, an historical account of the beginnings of the optogenetic revolution by Edward Boyden.
