“Again, they did it again! As with their other websites, it’s obvious that the F1000 crew puts a lot of thought into making F1000Trials an easy-to-use resource with a lot of helpful features. I’m sitting here clapping my hands,” said Donatas Zailskas, a 6th year medical Lithuanian student. But what do you think about F1000Trials?…
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…
Faculty of 1000 today launches the beta version of a new service, F1000Trials, which is currently freely available to all registered users. In this post we explain the need for this new publishing service, what the key features are, and who should use it. Read the press release here. Are we at tipping point for…
“Does anyone know any life scientists or clinicians in Antarctica interested in publishing innovation?” we found ourselves wondering last week. It’s the only continent on which we have not appointed an F1000 Specialist – yet (although given the overwhelming response so far, we remain optimistic). In July we received more than 60 applications to join…
The response to our recently-launched community outreach project has been excellent and today we are publicly welcoming the first F1000 Specialists. This first group of F1000 Specialists are located in 14 countries, across several continents. The complete list, at the time of writing, is below. These F1000 Specialists include some of our existing Faculty Members…
We’re looking for eight people – recently qualified or trainee life scientists or clinicians – in the London area to test some new features of F1000Prime. If you’re interested in new tools for scholarly communication, can spare an hour or two on 18th July 2013 and can visit our office on Cleveland Street, please get…
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…
A growing number of tools aim to help scientists filter and discover relevant papers and, in some cases, provide information on research impact not based on the Impact Factor. Amongst these alternative or article-level metrics tools is F1000Prime. F1000Prime adds expert commentary and context to the raw numbers – social media shares, page views, etc…
Much of the power and value of F1000Prime is down to the caliber of the Faculty who recommend articles. But we also encourage non-Faculty (users and subscribers) to nominate articles for inclusion in F1000Prime. Their suggestions are considered by Faculty Members who may then write recommendations. To make this process more efficient than just emailing…
