Welcome to the prototype site for our new open access F1000 Posters, a repository of posters from across the life sciences and medicine. Please bear with us while we build the full site with much smarter viewing for the Posters, interactive tools and full search capabilities.
Latest Updates
View the latest posters
Due to the volume of new posters being deposited, we have changed the navigation of this site to Topics and Sections for easier browsing. View our latest submissions from the recent Physiology 2010, 24th International Congress for Conservation Biology (ICCB) 2010, Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution (SMBE) 2010, and Intelligent Systems in Molecular Biology (ISMB) 2010 meetings, and the ISMB’s associated ISCB Student Council Symposium 2010.
More societies come on board
Keep checking our continually expanding list of meetings for coverage. The latest societies and conference organisers to join our initiative include EFIC (European Federation of IASP (International Association for the Study of Pain) chapters), European Neurological Society (ENS), European Renal Association (ERA), International Society for Urban Health (ISUH), British Hypertension Society (BHS), and the International Symposium on Neuroprotection and Neurorepair.
PNAS and others join support for F1000 Posters
The list of leading journals and publishers that are supportive of this initiative and do not view deposition as prior publication is continually expanding. The latest additions to the list include Proc Natl Acad Sci USA, Genome Res and Br J Urol Int.
About F1000 Posters
Our aim in building F1000 Posters is to give poster presenters and supporting societies the opportunity to make their work known to a wider audience. It will also enable much greater discussion on new research, hopefully opening up opportunities for new collaborations which will help advance scientific research as a whole. Posters deposited here will be reviewed by our world-renowned Faculty who will select posters that they consider to be particularly interesting and important and write evaluations for inclusion in our award-winning F1000 evaluation service.
A lost resource
The early scientific information presented in conference posters is universally agreed to be an important resource but, unfortunately, it is almost always completely lost once a conference is over. As a result, posters are only viewed by a handful of people before they disappear, either forever or until the research is later published as a paper. Some important work may never get published, particularly if it focuses on negative results or case studies. The system of removing posters from view after a conference is over represents a vast loss to the scientific community of unique and potentially valuable information.
The rise of social networking as a channel for communication is enabling the scientific community to learn more about conference posters and presentations and is extending the reach of the data presented at meetings - scientists blog and twitter about research and share information and opinions - but there are few safeguards in place.
The open access F1000 Posters will address both of the above issues. It will provide a permanent, structured environment for the deposition of posters as well as a trustworthy venue for ongoing discussion and development of the information being presented.
Access to new findings
F1000 Posters will enable researchers to maximize the value of a poster by dramatically increasing access and by helping to prevent lengthy delays before others can benefit from new research. The feedback gained by scientists from such early dissemination may help direct future work and also may reduce the duplication of effort between labs and departments, whether by speeding progress towards a similar goal or by preventing the replication of work that has previously failed elsewhere.
Preliminary feedback from researchers and Publishers/Editors
In several surveys of researchers from across life science and medicine, over 85% of the several thousand respondents told us that they would submit their posters to such an open-access repository and 95% thought such a repository would be useful to them as users. The initial response from some of the leading publishers and journal Editors to this initiative has also been supportive and many have confirmed that they would not regard deposition of a poster in the repository as prior publication (see full details of the responses obtained so far).
Free deposition of posters and free access
Deposition in F1000 Posters is free of charge. Access to the posters is also free of charge to users.
Contribute to this initiative
If you are a researcher who would like your poster to be included in F1000 Posters, or if you are a meeting organiser (for example, a society meeting) who is interested in exploring some of the additional opportunities this could present to your delegates , then please click on the relevant links below for further information.