F1000Workspace - New Space for Scientific Collaboration
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By Catherine Dhanjal

Abstract

Sophie Alexander recently reviewed F1000Workspace, a unified workspace designed for scientists to collect, write & discuss scientific literature that would also benefit anyone writing scholarly or academic articles. We asked her what particularly caught her attention.

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Accessing the findings of other experts' scientific research can be difficult for many scientists. Science publishers are often there to serve the interests of their journals and this is not always the same as the interests of science.

However, the advent of open access publishing is becoming the norm in life science publishing.

We've previously reviewed other services from Faculty of 1000, a publisher of services for life scientists and clinical researchers: F1000Research and F1000Prime.

Tackling the Deadly Sins of Science Publishing

We asked Sophie Alexander to review the latest offering from F1000, F1000Workspace, to see how it is removing some of the barriers that currently beset the communication and discussion of new scientific discoveries. Sophie has over 10 years' experience in the information sector and, as a regular writer and reviewer for FreePint, she was well placed to review the workspace.

You can read Sophie's Mini Review of F1000Workspace (subscriber content) to find out more about this unified workspace where scientists can collect, write and discuss scientific literature. It's "designed to support the entire science writing process, from discovering critical papers recommended by faculty and intelligent algorithms to saving and annotating references via its browser extension."

Within the platform you can read recommendations from over 10,000 leading experts in biology and medicine and links to the Open Science publishing platform, F1000Research.

Easier Organisation & Sharing

F1000Workspace allows you to import and organise your references, share those references with colleagues and use those citations in any scientific literature you might be authoring within Microsoft Word. It's also compatible with a number of platforms, including Zotero and EndNote. 

Sophie found the ability to share your references and projects with others was a particularly useful feature, as it avoids having to convert and manually look for references and reinserting them into Word documents as you have to do with other platforms.

FreePint Subscribers can log in now to read Sophie's Mini Review of F1000Workspace and see how this web-based platform can help you to collect, write and discuss your scientific literature.

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