The document summarizes the Faculty of 1000 (F1000), a post-publication peer review service. F1000 has over 5,000 scientists from various fields who evaluate and recommend the most important research articles. They provide abstracts, full texts when available, and expert commentary on over 1 million articles. Users can search across topics, get alerts on new findings, and see top papers in different fields. The service aims to help researchers find key studies and save time by providing a second opinion from experts.

2. THE ALL NEW FACULTY OF 1000
Tom Waggitt
November 2010

3. INTRODUCTION
 What we do
 How we do it
 The features of F1000
 How F1000 works
 The benefits of F1000

4. WHAT IS F1000?
 Post Publication Peer Review
 1 million article abstracts
 5,000 scientists
 Evaluations

5. THE FACULTY
Faculty
Section Section Section
Topic Topic Topic TopicTopic Topic TopicTopic Topic
43 Faculties
With 2-4
Heads of Faculty
5-14 Sections per
Faculty with 2-4
Section Heads
Over 200 sections
with circa 5,000
Faculty Members
and 5,000 AFM’s

6. THE FACULTY
 Identify and evaluate the most important papers they read each month
• From any journal
• Cannot select their own publications
• Are not paid
 Add relevant classifications (e.g. Novel Drug Target)
 Cross-index to all relevant sections
 Assign one of three positive ratings
• Recommended, Must Read or Exceptional

7. THE CORE OF F1000
An evaluation
 Abstract
 Full Text
 Related articles
 Purchase article
 Downloadable
 Comments
 Dissents
 SFX linking

8. TOP 10 LISTS
There are 3 types of Top 10 Lists:
 Top 10
• All key papers in a particular field over
the last 30 days or overall
 Most Viewed
• Most viewed evaluations over the past
30 days
 Hidden Jewels
• The most interesting papers from
more specialized journals

9. F1000 POSTERS
 Open Access Repository
 Launched in June 2010
 Over 70 key conferences covered
 Early release of novel research
 Faculty evaluations

10. F1000 REPORTS
What are the F1000 Reports?
 Review articles
 Written by our Faculty Members
 Abstract in PubMed
 Full text in PubMed Central

11. F1000’S MAGAZINE: THE SCIENTIST
 Award-winning Magazine
 Real issues
 Daily News
 Feature Articles
 Profiles
 ‘Naturally Selected’ blog
 Top 7 F1000 evaluations
 Feeds into F1000’s dynamic homepage

12. SEARCHES
How do you search?
 Browse by subject area
 Sort searches
 Search PubMed simultaneously
 Store favorite searches, evaluations and comments

13. MY F1000
Making the most of F1000
• Enables customization
• Email Alerts
 Choose topics of interest from any section or
faculty
• Send your findings to a colleague

14. BENEFITS OF FACULTY OF 1000 FOR YOUR PATRONS
 Never miss an important article
 Gives a crucial second opinion
 Highlight key articles in adjacent fields
 Saves time

15. BENEFITS OF FACULTY OF 1000 FOR YOU
 Increased usage of library resources
 Helps identify key journals
 A wealth of library resources
 A unique service
 Tiered pricing

16. WHAT DO PEOPLE SAY ABOUT FACULTY OF 1000?
“Faculty of 1000 is the most important tool for anyone working
in the biomedical arena today.”
Tom Waggitt – Sales Manager at Faculty of 1000

17. WHAT DO PEOPLE SAY ABOUT FACULTY OF 1000?
“The thing that’s missing from a lot of publications is
the role of an interpreter who is an expert
in the field. F1000 provides this missing link through the
voices of its broad and diverse faculty.”
Edward Benz – President, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

18. WHAT DO PEOPLE SAY ABOUT FACULTY OF 1000?
“I find Faculty of 1000 useful for three main reasons:
identifying key papers in areas outside my own;
highlighting papers in journals that I don’t normally
read; and providing confirmation by an expert of a
paper I have read (i.e. a second opinion).”
Martin Raff – University College London and Fellow of the
Royal Society

19. STATISTICS
 c. 95% renewal rate
 Over 3,000 journals represented
 Nearly 100,000 evaluations
 Prestigious Faculty
• 5 Nobel Prize winners
• 75 Fellows of the Royal Society
• 12 Lasker Prize winners
• 136 Members of the National Academy of Science

20. THE FUTURE FOR F1000
What are we planning?
 More rankings
• Journals
• Institutions
• Authors
 Expanding coverage
 More Faculty Members
 COUNTER compliant stats
 Request article from library

21. CONTACT
Tom Waggitt
Sales Manager
Faculty of 1000
Middlesex House
34-42 Cleveland Street
London W1T 4LB
United Kingdom
T: +44 (0) 7896 558 116
F: +44 (0) 20 7580 1938
E: tom.waggitt@F1000.com