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Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 16:13:57 +0000

Dear all,

I'm sharing a press release from F1000 which may be of interest.
F1000Prime (recently awarded 4-and-a-half out of 5 stars in the
Charleston Advisor, http://dx.doi.org/10.5260/chara.15.3.21) has today
launched a new feature, F1000Journal Clubs. This new tool is included
with the regular/existing subscription to F1000Prime.

Please email me if you've any questions or feedback.

Best regards,

Iain

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Press release link:
http://f1000.com/resources/F1000Prime_JC_PR_Jan_2014_Web.pdf
More information on the F1000 blog:
http://blog.f1000.com/2014/01/16/f1000journal-clubs-launch

Press release:
Join the F1000Journal Club - new tools for discussing and organizing
research articles

Scientists and clinicians can spend hours each month critically
evaluating published research as part of their training and teaching,
but valuable discussions about what makes a good or bad paper are
often lost forever. F1000Journal Clubs
(http://f1000.com/prime/journalclubs), a new feature of F1000Prime
that launches today, makes these discussions - journal club meetings -
more online, more open and efficient, and helps scientists get
recognition for more of their contributions to science.

F1000Journal Clubs, which is available to all subscribers to Faculty
of 1000's F1000Prime, is dedicated to organizing, archiving and
sharing the conclusions of journal club meetings. It can extract
images and create presentations automatically from article PDFs, and
the system can personally recommend relevant articles to its users
based on their own research interests.

F1000Journal Clubs is integrated with F1000Prime's continuously
updated database of top articles in biology and medicine, enabling
users of F1000Journal Clubs to access the opinions of 6,000 leading
scientists, including nine Nobel Prize winners, to help choose
articles for their journal club meetings.

Omer Gazit, Director of Research & Development at F1000, said:
"Article recommendations published in F1000Prime often come from
journal club meetings and we've built F1000Journal Clubs to provide a
better, more complete and personalized literature service to
researchers. F1000Prime is evolving into a broad set of tools for
storing, sharing and discussing research articles in public and
private groups. I'm grateful to members of the F1000 community who
have helped test and refine the service and with their help we will
keep improving it."

Dr Ann Walker, University College London, said: "Several students and
members of staff helped with testing of F1000Journal Clubs and we find
it to be a powerful resource. The figure extraction tool, which
provides a template journal club presentation at the click of a mouse,
works well and is very popular.  I'm sure it will save us valuable
time and be a good resource for teaching literature evaluation."

To enable a large proportion of the scientific community to try out
F1000Journal Clubs, F1000Prime remains available for a one month free
personal trial subscription. And, if an existing subscriber to
F1000Prime invites someone to join an F1000Journal Club who does not
subscribe to F1000Prime, the new user will receive three months free
access to the service. Anyone with access to F1000Prime through their
university library just needs to register with F1000 to use
F1000Journal Clubs.

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To find out more, please contact Iain Hrynaszkiewicz on +44 (0)20 7079
4888 or email [log in to unmask]

About Faculty of 1000 (F1000)

Faculty of 1000 comprises the largest group of leading experts in
biology and medicine to provide scientists with a broad range of
services for the rapid discovery, assessment and publication of
research.

/ENDS/

Iain Hrynaszkiewicz
Outreach Director

FACULTY of 1000
http://f1000.com