*Apologies for cross-posting*
Hoping this will be of interest to the list,
Kind regards
Grace Baynes
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PRESS RELEASE: 23 January 2006
LAUNCH OF FACULTY OF 1000 MEDICINE
Faculty of 1000 Medicine, a major new online service designed to help medics keep abreast of the most important new research, was launched today. Run by a team of almost 2500 of the world's leading researchers and clinicians, Faculty of 1000 Medicine provides a consensus view of important articles and trends across medicine. The continuously updated service, found at www.f1000medicine.com, will be available to institutional and personal subscribers.
Faculty of 1000 Medicine offers similar functionality and organisation to its sister service, the highly successful Faculty of 1000 Biology, to which more than 80% of the world's top institutions subscribe. Faculty Members submit short evaluations of 2-3 interesting articles that they have read in the previous month, providing an article rating (the F1000 factor), as well as information about the article type and specialties it will be of interest to. The Faculty of 1000 Medicine in-house team then carefully check the evaluations to ensure they are concise and user-friendly, aiming to get new evaluations on the site within two working days. The comprehensive medical coverage complements the biological focus of Faculty of 1000 Biology (www.f1000biology.com).
A new feature exclusive to Faculty of 1000 Medicine is the Clinical Impact label highlighting research findings that Faculty Members think will have an immediate effect on clinical practice.
Faculty of 1000 Medicine is headed by an International Advisory Board of world leaders in medicine including Steven Hyman, Provost of Harvard University, and Sir Keith Peters, Emeritus Regius Professor of Physic at Cambridge University. Divided into 18 Faculties, the service covers the whole of medicine - from Anesthesiology & Pain Management to Women's Health. The Faculty is further divided into approximately 200 Sections representing specific research areas, which are cross-indexed to reflect the interdisciplinary nature of medicine.
Jean-Louis Vincent, Head of Faculty for Critical Care & Emergency Medicine, welcomes the launch of Faculty of 1000 Medicine:
"Faculty of 1000 Medicine is exactly what researchers and clinicians need to keep up to date with the most important developments in their specialty and related fields. It is impossible to read all of the articles that one should, and medicine is becoming more and more interdisciplinary. Timely, concise evaluations from peers that one respects are a lifeline in the sea of literature."
Faculty of 1000 Medicine offers the most comprehensive literature evaluation service on the market, covering more fields of medicine than any other. Faculty Members are free to evaluate articles from any journal they choose. This flexibility leads to the identification of Hidden Jewels, articles evaluated from less widely read journals, which readers may otherwise have missed but which rate highly according to Faculty Members.
Evaluations are systematically organised according to subject keywords and are cross-linked to make it easy for users to find evaluations of interest to their specialty. Users can also customize the service to their interests and opt for regular updates by email, including stored searches on keywords of interest, at a frequency that suits them.
Faculty of 1000 Medicine has been eagerly awaited by many individuals and institutions, and has already attracted advance institutional sales and trials.
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About Faculty of 1000 Medicine
Faculty of 1000 Medicine is the next-generation literature evaluation and awareness service for medicine. Based on the recommendations of a selected Faculty of nearly 2500 leading, international researchers and clinicians, it will systematically highlight and review the most pertinent papers in any field of medicine.
The International Advisory Board and Heads of each Faculty are listed below.
International Advisory Board
Steven Hyman
Provost, Harvard University
Sir Keith Peters
Emeritus Regius Professor of Physic, Cambridge University
Alan Schechter
Chief, Laboratory of Clinical Biology, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
Judith Swain
Arthur L Bloomfield Professor of Medicine, Stanford University Chair, Dept of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine
Hans Wigzell
Director, Centre of Medical Information, Karolinska Institute
Heads of Faculty
ANESTHESIOLOGY & PAIN MANAGEMENT
Mervyn Maze, Ronald Miller
CARDIOVASCULAR DISORDERS
Eric Topol, Frans Van de Werf
CRITICAL CARE & EMERGENCY MEDICINE
Jesse Hall, Jean-Louis Vincent
DERMATOLOGY
Stephen Katz, Georg Stingl
DIABETES & ENDOCRINOLOGY
Ele Ferrannini, Allen Spiegel
EVIDENCE BASED HEALTH CARE
Paul Glasziou, Ralph Horwitz
GASTROENTEROLOGY & HEPATOLOGY
Michael Farthing, Nicholas LaRusso
HEMATOLOGY
Edward Benz, Eliane Gluckman
INFECTIOUS DISEASES
Robert Gallo, Mervyn Shapiro, Nick White
NEPHROLOGY
Barry Brenner
NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS
Richard Frackowiak, Guy McKhann
ONCOLOGY
George Canellos, Herbert Pinedo
PSYCHIATRY
Dennis Charney, Julien Mendlewicz
PUBLIC HEALTH & EPIDEMIOLOGY
Barry Bloom, Sir Michael Marmot
RESPIRATORY DISORDERS
Peter Barnes, James Crapo
RHEUMATOLOGY & CLINICAL IMMUNOLOGY
Peter Lipsky, Sir Ravinder Maini
UROLOGY
David Neal, Peter Scardino
WOMEN'S HEALTH
Linda Guidice, Lesley Regan
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