An independent review in a leading journal for information professionals has ranked F1000Prime in the top 10% of more than 800 online library resources. F1000Prime scored 4.5 out of a possible maximum of 5 stars and was most highly praised for the quality of the content in the database. The review was published in the…
The F1000Prime Outreach team are scheduling more visits to, and presentations at, many academic and research institutions in 2014, and attending more conferences. Here are the dates, venues and presentation topics so far, including five talks over three days in Milan, Italy, next week. With a number of important new features being added to F1000Prime…
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…
The latest update to F1000Prime makes the beta version of a major new feature, F1000Journal Clubs, available to all subscribers. This is the beginning of a significant expansion to the features of F1000Prime, which aims to make science communication more efficient and integrated with the workflow of life science researchers and clinicians. F1000Journal Clubs is…
A little while ago I was doing something that often gets pushed into that time in the festive season, between December 24 and January 2, when email is a bit quieter than usual. That is, I started writing a paper I’d been meaning to get to for a while. Coincidentally, my wife, a practicing clinician,…
Starting next week we’ll be conducting live online demonstrations of F1000Prime to help newly registered users, librarians, and anyone else who wants to know more about the service, get the most of out of F1000Prime. Each event will be hosted by an F1000Prime product specialist, such as an Outreach Director, and attendees can ask questions…
“[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…
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,…
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