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Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2013 13:59:13 +0000
Dear all,
Since September 2013 anyone accessing Faculty of 1000's F1000Prime
from subscribing institutes has been able to set up a personalized,
self-learning homepage and article feed - based on their research
interests. Today, this new feature has been publicly launched. The
press release follows.
Press release: http://f1000.com/resources/F1000Prime-new_homepage_PR.pdf
Blog: http://blog.f1000.com/2013/10/22/new-prime-homepage/
Please contact me if you have any questions.
Kind regards,
Iain
PRESS RELEASE
F1000Prime evolves: self-learning homepage and free one-month personal trial
Faculty of 1000's F1000Prime (http://f1000.com/prime) has launched a
new personalized homepage and article alerting tool that learns from
an individual's research interests - and introduced a free one-month
trial personal subscription for new and returning users.
In response to feedback from many life scientists and clinicians,
efficient personalization and customization of the website is now
central to the experience of using F1000Prime. Individuals just need
to enter as few as three key words, of their choosing, to describe
their research interests. Personalized recommendations of content
based on how an individual uses a website have previously only been
commonly seen on major retail websites and search engines.
The new homepage and article feed - effectively a personal table of
contents - makes F1000Prime even more relevant and central to the
day-to-day work of busy scientists and clinicians. To enable many
people to try out these powerful new features, anyone who registers on
the F1000Prime website, or signs-in if they have previously
registered, can receive full, free personal access to F1000Prime for
one month.
A personal homepage is created in three short steps, resulting in a
feed of important and relevant articles - selected and commented on by
F1000Prime's Faculty of more than 5000 peer-nominated experts - as
well as relevant articles from the largest life-science literature
database, PubMed.
Faculty of 1000's Chairman Vitek Tracz, said: "Our task is to provide
the busy researcher with effective help to get highly relevant
research articles fast. With this new technology underpinning
F1000Prime we believe we've created the most effective, personalized,
expertly-curated literature service for life scientists and
clinicians."
The technology behind these new features includes a unique algorithm
that learns from selections an individual makes in setting up their
homepage, and, over time and with use of the website, provides
increasingly relevant articles.
Speaking of F1000Prime's personalized alerting service, Prof Gerald F
Joyce of the Scripps Research Institute said, "I enjoy and rely upon
the many terrific features of Faculty of 1000, but lately I have begun
to worry that my F1000Prime alerts know me better than I know myself!"
The new F1000Prime homepage also suggests leading scientists and
clinicians from the F1000Prime Faculty - including nine Nobel Prize
winners - an individual should 'follow'. Following Faculty Members
creates an alert each time an expert recommends or comments on an
article in F1000Prime.
Anyone accessing F1000Prime through a library subscription can
continue to browse F1000Prime's directory of top articles and expert
commentaries without registering on the website, although registration
is highly recommended to benefit from these new features.
To find out more about Faculty of 1000 and its new features, please
contact Iain Hrynaszkiewicz on +44 (0)20 7079 4888 or email
[log in to unmask] For more information, visit http://f1000.com/prime
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About Faculty of 1000 (F1000)
Faculty of 1000 is the publisher of four unique services that support
and inform the work of life scientists and clinicians. F1000Prime and
F1000Trials provide a layer of expert opinion and guidance on
published articles, and F1000Research and F1000Posters present
original work via open access websites that encourage transparency,
sharing and debate.
Read more about the history of Faculty of 1000 in SCIENCE magazine,
which published an interview with Vitek Tracz titled "The Seer of
Science Publishing," in October 2013:
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/342/6154/66.full
Iain Hrynaszkiewicz
Outreach Director
FACULTY of 1000
http://f1000.com
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