We’ve put together some posters to help Faculty Members, users of F1000Prime and librarians raise awareness of journal club meetings that have begun using, or are interested to get started with, F1000Journal Clubs. Poster for up-coming journal club meetings F1000Journals Clubs, which launched last month, can automatically remind club members of up-coming meetings and journal…
A rare disease is defined as only affecting 1 in 2000 Europeans, or fewer than 200,000 Americans; however, there are so many rare diseases, that in the EU alone they affect up to 30 million individuals. Research on any of the thousands of rare diseases deserves to be published and shared. F1000Research offers an open…
Here are this week’s most popular tweets from the @F1000 feed, as well as some other interesting picks from Twitter…
Why is resource identification important? Have you ever had to look for ages to find that antibody that worked so perfectly in that study you read? Or worse, have you ever come to the conclusion that the amazing antibody did not actually label the protein it was supposed to? More and more scientists are convinced…
We’re delighted by news that David Nutt, Edmond J. Safra Professor of neuropsychopharmacology at Imperial College London, and Section Head in Psychiatry for F1000Prime, has been elected president of the European Brain Council (EBC). Founded in Brussels in 2002, the European Brain Council is a coordinating body that represents researchers in neurology, neurosurgery, psychiatry, basic…
Here are the week’s most popular tweets from @F1000, as well some other stories that caught our eye…
We welcome the latest 50 additions to our ever-expanding team of F1000 Specialists, who are working hard to help F1000 drive publishing innovation. Our team have been helping Faculty of 1000 develop innovative products to improve the communication of life science research for all scientists. In addition to product development, our F1000 Specialists are also…
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…
Last night, scientists on Twitter starting sharing six-word peer review reports, parodying particular types of referee reports. We were following along, and noticed that a lot of the #SixWordPeerReview tweets were mocking particular types of referee reports: the referees were asking for too many experiments, or the referees wanted the authors to cite their papers.…
It’s a new year and although the weather still requires us to dress in layers, things are heating up here at F1000Research. During the next few months we will be attending some conferences and visiting a few institutes to engage with researchers and talk about our publishing model. If you’re attending any of the following…
