Publisher Faculty of 1000 (F1000) has announced the launch of F1000Workspace, a research collaboration, reference management and authoring platform for scientists. It is the latest component part of a unique technology eco-system offered by F1000, a community of over 10,000 biomedical experts. Founded by veteran publishing entrepreneur Vitek Tracz, F1000 helps scientists to discover, discuss and publish research.
F1000Workspace has been created hand-in-hand with scientists around the world and is designed to assist biology and medicine researchers when writing research articles and grant applications, collecting and managing references, collaborating with co-authors and submitting correctly formatted articles for publication.
The technology will greatly improve collaboration within research teams, especially where a number of scientists are co-authoring a paper, and where references are inevitably drawn from a plethora of sources.
To help in the discovery of relevant references the technology uses proprietary algorithms to intelligently suggest relevant references recommended by the Faculty's 10,000 biomedical scientist members and other references in PubMed and elsewhere.
F1000Workspace will enable users to eliminate wasted hours spent converting and merging reference lists submitted by co-authors; discover key references based on tailored recommendations; annotate web articles or PDFs directly in a web browser; and never misplace reference again thanks to the browser 'button' which allows users to save and organise references with a click.
Scientists using F1000Workspace will be able to make articles and research data available for immediate publication via a special 'one click' route to F1000Research - F1000's open science publishing platform for life scientists that offers transparent peer review of research. This means a group of researchers working on a paper in F1000Workspace can get it published within days, with transparent peer review shortly afterwards. When approved, the paper is listed in PubMed and other listing services.
F1000Workspace is further complemented by another F1000 service called F1000Prime which provides qualitative assessment of literature. F1000Workspace is available immediately and without further charge to scientists who belong to subscribed institutions including UCL, King's College London, Yale, NIH, The Max Planck Institute and others. It will automatically format articles to match the style of all major scientific journals and F1000Research.
