Press releases
12 June 2008
Revolutionary online literature evaluation services: Now free to explore
Faculty of 1000 Biology and Faculty of 1000 Medicine, the expert-driven article evaluation services, are now freely available for scientists, medics and journalists to explore.
Designed to make sense of the vast and growing body of scholarly literature in the fields of biology and medicine, the award-winning online F1000 service comprises over 4,500 of the world's most distinguished and respected researchers and clinicians who select key recent articles and evaluate them. This 'faculty of experts' thus highlights the cutting-edge articles that make a difference to biomedical scientists in their research and to clinicians in their every-day practice, saving everybody invaluable time by highlighting their significance. The articles are identified from over 1000 of the most highly regarded biomedical journals from a wide range of publishers, and they are then graded from an expert perspective.
From June 2008, F1000 is making browsing and searching its content freely available, offering visitors the opportunity to get a flavor of the crème de la crème of the tens of thousands of selections archived, as well as the daily updates. Users will be invited to subscribe to the service to enjoy the insights and summaries featured, and to tailor the websites to their own specific preferences. Free trials are offered to introduce the full service to new users.
In the opinion of Professor Jean-Louis Vincent (Erasme University Hospital), "Faculty of 1000 Medicine is exactly what researchers and clinicians need to keep up to date with the most important developments".
The real value of F1000 according to Professor Floyd Bloom (Scripps Research Institute and former Editor-in-Chief of SCIENCE) is that "No one can keep up with the literature, so having colleagues point out the recent important advances in unfamiliar areas is enormously useful."
Media Contact
Press contact: Robert Kursten
Marketing Manager
Faculty of 1000 Biology & Medicine
+44 (0) 20 7323 0323
robert.kursten@f1000.com
Please name Faculty of 1000 Biology and Faculty of 1000 Medicine in any story you write. If you are writing for the web, please link to the websites: www.f1000biology.com and www.f1000medicine.com and/or www.f1000.com.
Faculty of 1000 Biology and Faculty of 1000 Medicine are online services that help you stay informed of high impact articles and access the opinions of global leaders in biology and medicine. A distinguished international faculty select and evaluate key articles across biology and medicine, providing a rapidly updated, authoritative guide to the literature that matters.
Jean-Louis Vincent is Head of F1000's Critical Care and Emergency Medicine Faculty
Floyd Bloom is Head of F1000's Pharmacology & Drug Discovery for F1000 Biology
Please contact Robert Kursten for a complimentary journalist subscription to F1000 Biology and/or F1000 Medicine.
