Subscriptions for academic institutions

When an academic institution subscribes to Faculty of 1000 Biology, all members of the institute can access the website whilst on the institute's premises (as well as via Roaming access) and can tailor the site to their interests by simply registering. If you are at a corporate institution, see Corporate subscriptions.

If you would like to recommend this product to your librarian, please use our online recommendation form.

General information

• The cost of an academic institutional licence depends on a number of factors - including the size and type of institution or organization
• Access is by IP address
• Optional login allows users to customize their own preferences
• There is no limit on the number of concurrent users
• There is no limit on usage
• Linking options can be customised to suit an institution's needs (see below)
• We offer free access or greatly reduced rates to academic institutes in low and lower-middle income countries (see more)

Roaming access

Roaming access enables any user who has recently logged in within an institution's IP range to access Faculty of 1000 Biology even when they are temporarily off-site (e.g. at home, or at a conference), simply by logging in. Roaming rights last for 30 days.

For Librarians:

How do I register for a free academic institutional trial?

Use the online trial request form

How do I get a quote for an academic institution?

Fill out the online quotation form

How do I subscribe?

To subscribe follow the steps listed below.

IMPORTANT: In order that we can process your subscription quickly, please specify the postal address to which you would like the invoice and licence agreement to be sent.

1. Complete and submit the quotation form, if you haven't already done so.
2. After you have been given your price quote and licence agreement, you will need to send back the signed licence agreement (if you wish you can request a sample copy from institutions@biomedcentral.com).
3. Once we have your licence agreement, we will process your order, invoice you and notify you when your access is set up (in approx 4 weeks time).

For further information on subscribing, please contact us

Customer Services,
Biology Reports Ltd,
c/o Science Navigation Group,
Middlesex House,
34-42 Cleveland Street,
London, W1T 4LB,
UK

Tel: +44 (0)20 7631 9131
Customers in the UK call free on 0800 389 8136
Fax: +44 (0)20 7631 9926
E-mail: institutions@biomedcentral.com

To contact your regional Sales representative directly, please see http://www.biomedcentral.com/info/libraries/salescontacts

How is my quote calculated?

The cost of an academic institutional subscription depends on the size of your institution. Please refer to the table below to see how we categorize the size of institutions into pricing brackets. Your sales representative will calculate your price quote depending on what size bracket your institution falls into.

* FTE is the full time equivalent based on life science students, researchers and faculty.

Customize Faculty of 1000 Biology's linking scheme to suit your institution's needs

By default, Faculty of 1000 Biology includes the following links from articles:

1. [abstract on PubMed] links, which allows the user to link through to the publisher's full text (if your institution subscribes to that journal) via the PubMed abstract.
2. [order article] links, which offer the facility to order an article via Infotrieve's document delivery service.
3. [related articles] links, which connects the user to other related papers of interest by Faculty members.
4. Google Scholar.
5. Fulltext.

Subscribing academic institutions may specify that [order article] links should route through to their own preferred document delivery supplier. Alternatively, institutions can specify that document requests should be forwarded to a designated email address. Or they may specify that no document delivery links should be displayed at all.

In addition, if your institution operates an OpenURL compliant link resolver (such as SFX), then you can specify that all links from Faculty of 1000 Biology should be routed through that server to the most appropriate destination for your users.

Add Faculty of 1000 Biology links to PubMed for your users!

Many libraries use PubMed's linkout system to provide direct links for their users to the full texts of articles held by the library. Find out how you can extend this system to make F1000 Biology links appear on PubMed for your users, for any articles on PubMed that have been evaluated on Faculty of 1000 Biology.

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