Marie Martens

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Marie Martens BioMed Central Ltd
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What is Faculty of 1000?
A new online research service that systematically
highlights and reviews the most interesting
papers published in the biological sciences based
on the recommendations of a faculty of well over
1400 selected leading international scientists.
www.facultyof1000.com
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Information overload
Theres a lot of research out there
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• How do scientists cope currently?
• Scan table-of-contents of top journals
• Read review articles
• Search databases
• Talk to colleagues (at work or at conferences)
• Faculty of 1000 combines and optimises these
  methods to identify important articles easily and
  quickly.

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How F1000 is organized

• All of biology is divided into 16 Faculties
  (subjects), each run by 2-4 Heads of Faculty
• Each Faculty is subdivided into 3-12 Sections,
  each run by 2-3 Heads of Section
• Each Section comprises between 10 and 50 Faculty
  Members
• Each Faculty has representation proportional to
  the number of papers published in that discipline

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What Faculty members do

• Faculty members evaluate 1-2 papers/month, which
  they
• Comment on 2-3 sentences
• Rate Recommended / Must Read / Exceptional
• Classify Interesting hypotheses, New
  finding, Important confirmation, Technical
  advance, Controversial finding
• Categorize assign all most relevant Sections

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Sample list of Sections within a Faculty
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Sample list of Faculty members within a Section
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Front page
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Key features of the site

• Advanced Searches Pinpoints precisely the
  articles you are interested in
• Tailored MyF1000 email alerts Regularly updates
  you on recent papers of note, based on your
  sections of interest and your stored searches
• Hidden Jewels Papers from less widely read
  journals, which you may have missed but which
  rate highly on Faculty of 1000
• Top 10s The most highly rated and most viewed
  papers across All biology or by Faculty

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Facts and figures

• Top papers selected by Faculty come from over 400
  different journals --- currently, only 15 are
  from Nature/Science/Cell
• Updated daily with new entries
• Direct link to PubMed abstract (if available)
• As of April 2003, over 12,000 evaluations on the
  site

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Future developments

• New Faculties for 2003
• Physiology
• Pharmacology
• Ecology
• Biological Physics/Mathematics
• expand Evolutionary biology
• Faculty of 1000 Medicine

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• Faculty of 1000 is keen to make itself available
  to scientists in all countries, so offer free
  institutional subscriptions to the poorest
  countries, in line with HINARI. In addition,
  contributing Faculty Members can nominate an
  institute of their choice in other developing
  countries for free access to F1000.
• The following institutes have been sponsored for
  free access to F1000 by Faculty Members
• University of Medicine and Pharmacy of Iasi,
  Iasi, Romania (Antony Carr)
• Peking University, Peking, China (Xing Wang Deng)
  
• Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de
  Janeiro, Brazil (Annette Dolphin)
• International Centre for Genetic Engineering, New
  Delhi, India (Kristina Downing)
• University of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires,
  Argentina (Martin Giurfa)
• Centro de Investigación sobre Fijación de
  Nitrógeno - Universidad Nacional Autónoma de
  México (CIFN-UNAM), Morelos, Mexico (Richard
  Gourse)
• Instituto de Botanica Darwinion, San Isidro,
  Argentina (Elizabeth Kellogg)
• University of Namibia, Windhoek, Namibia (Vance
  Lemmon)
• Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai,
  India (Andrew Lumsden)
• Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto
  Alegre, Brazil (Sue Malcolm)
• Advanced Biotechnology and Breeding Centre of the
  Malaysian Palm Oil Board, Selangor, Malaysia
  (Marjori Matzke)
• University of Buenos Aires (INGEBI), Buenos
  Aires, Argentina (Sheila McCormick)
• National Center for Health and Education Training
  (NCHET), East Timor (L. Alison McInnes)
• Centro de Estudios Cientificos, Valdivia, Chile
  (Christopher Miller)
• University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg,
  South Africa (John Moore)

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• In summary, two main objectives of Faculty of
  1000 are
• Highlight important papers in an efficient and
  time-saving way, organized and run by scientists
  for scientists
• Redirect the attention to the scientific merits
  of the paper rather than the journal in which it
  appears

This is really going to help busy scientists
find the gems in amongst the mounds of
rubble! Keith Roberts, John Innes Centre,
Norwich, UK
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Some of the larger and more prestigious
subscribers
USA Harvard TIGR CalTech Whitehead
Institute Scripps Salk Institute Rockefeller
University Columbia University University of
Wisconsin Madison Yale Washington Univ Med
School St. Louis Northwestern (Illinois) Cold
Spring Harbor Laboratories Princeton University
Johns Hopkins Univ School of Medicine NCI-Frederi
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nonUSA McGill University Canada Weizmann
Institute Israel Max Planck Institutes (all)
Germany Oxford University UK CNRS (all) France
INSERM (all) France Institut Pasteur France Lund
University University of Zurich University of
Lausanne ETH Zurich Hutchison/MRC Research
Centre Wellcome Sanger Institute Kings College
London IMP Austria University of Helsinki Finland