Portland Press Limited, Publisher for the Biochemical Society, Joins the Faculty of 1000 Affiliate Program

London, United Kingdom, February 05, 2011 --(PR.com)-- The Biochemical Society, including its wholly owned publishing subsidiary Portland Press Limited, becomes the latest prestigious organization to join the growing Faculty of 1000 (F1000) Affiliate Program.

As an F1000 Affiliate Publisher, Portland Press Limited will offer their readers free access to a selection of F1000 evaluations of articles appearing in their journals. The Portland Press journals covered by this agreement are:

• ASN NEURO
• Biochemical Journal
• Biology of the Cell
• Bioscience Reports
• Cell Biology International
• Cell Biology International Reports
• Clinical Science

Commenting on the F1000 Affiliate Society and Publisher Program, Pauline Starley, Acting Group Head of Publishing at Portland Press and the Biochemical Society, said: “This partnership with F1000 allows us to highlight for our readers the very best of the research we publish. We are excited to be providing this added value to our journals and look forward to including the recommendations from F1000 key opinion leaders on our journal websites.”

F1000 is also pleased to announce that they have finalized an agreement to work with the Biochemical Society to provide the scientific community with ongoing free access to posters presented at Biochemical Society meetings, including their prestigious Annual Symposium and Harden Conferences. This will be provided through F1000 Posters (http://f1000posters.com), the new open access repository of posters from across biology and medicine. Posters deposited with F1000 Posters will be reviewed by F1000’s world-renowned Faculty who will select posters that they consider to be particularly interesting and important and write evaluations for inclusion in the award-winning F1000 evaluation service.

F1000 is a unique online service that ranks the top 2% of biomedical articles across an array of specialist fields. Articles are selected by the 10,000 experts in the international F1000 Faculty, who have been nominated by their peers as highly respected in their chosen fields. The Faculty uses a unique rating system to identify the highest quality papers and explain why they are important.

Existing affiliates in the F1000 Affiliate Program include the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB), The Royal Society and The Physiological Society.

To find out more about Faculty of 1000, F1000 Posters or the F1000 Affiliate Program please contact Eleanor Howell on +44 (0)20 7631 9129 or email press@f1000.com. For more information, visit http://f1000.com.

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About Faculty of 1000: Faculty of 1000 is a unique online service that helps you stay informed of high impact articles and access the opinions of global leaders in biology and medicine. Our distinguished international faculty selects and evaluates key articles across these fields, providing a rapidly updated, authoritative guide to the life science literature that matters.

About F1000 Posters: F1000 Posters (http://f1000posters.com) is a new open access poster repository launched in June 2010 and already contains posters from over 130 national and international conferences. Top-performing posters on the site already receive an impressive 400+ individual views in a month, and many leading societies are now working with F1000 Posters to include posters from their meetings. The F1000 Faculty also view posters deposited in the repository and select and evaluate those they believe to be the most interesting for inclusion in the main F1000 service.

About Portland Press Limited: Portland Press Limited (www.portlandpress.com) is a leading provider of high-quality publishing and knowledge dissemination solutions. We make it easier for small and large organizations to manage their business. Portland Press Limited is the wholly owned publishing subsidiary of the Biochemical Society (www.biochemistry.org). It is a not-for-profit publisher of journals and books in the cellular and molecular life sciences. The surplus from the sales of its publications is returned to the scientific community via the activities of the Biochemical Society.