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Open Access Week 2015 – Open for Collaboration
Now in its eighth year, Open Access Week provides an opportunity to celebrate progress and bring additional awareness to help make Open Access – the founding principle of PLOS – the new norm in...
View ArticleCollaboration with Microsoft Extends Article Visibility and Lifecycle
As part of ongoing efforts to improve discovery, reuse and impact of PLOS content, articles published by PLOS and available in PDF can be easily uploaded, discovered, shared and recombined on the new...
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The Future of Science Communication
As a participant in OpenCon 2015, a conference geared towards Early Career Researchers in all disciplines, PLOS had the opportunity to hear what the next generation of open science innovators are...
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Statement on Data Sharing in Public Health Emergencies
The following is a joint funder/journal statement released today on Data Sharing in Public Health Emergencies. To learn about the special PLOS Zika virus publishing initiative, please read this...
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Influential Work from PLOS Authors Garners Lasker Awards
0000-0001-7318-5892The Lasker Awards recognize the contributions of scientists, physicians and public servants who have made major advances in the understanding, diagnosis, treatment and prevention of...
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Stand Up for Science
February 17, 2017 Editor’s Note: For a nonpartisan assessment of Why Scientists Must Also Be Advocates and suggestions for what you can do now to connect to the public, listen to a podcast with Mary...
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A Publishing Milestone to Celebrate: 200,000 PLOS Research Articles and Counting
In 2003, PLOS published its first research article and this month we’re proud to announce that we have now published more than 200,000 research articles across our seven Open Access journals. It has...
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Unrestricted Text and Data Mining with allofPLOS
0000-0001-7318-5892Content mining, machine learning, text and data mining (TDM) and data analytics all refer to the process of obtaining information through machine-read material. Faster than a human...
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PLOS Announces Prize to Celebrate the First Year of Channels
One year ago, PLOS launched its Channels program, providing central hubs for specific research communities. Channels are resources for scientists, making it easy to keep up to date with developments in...
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Open Access Publishing Forges Ahead in Europe
A group of national funders, joined by the European Commission and the European Research Council, have announced plans to make Open Access publishing mandatory for recipients of their agencies’...
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Live-streamed Preprint Journal Clubs!!!
Note: This post was written in collaboration with the PREreview team (Monica Granados, Samantha Hindle, Daniela Saderi) We are teaming up with PREreview during Open Access week to bring together...
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Gathering Steam: Preprints, Librarian Outreach, and Actions for Change
Note: This post was written by Robin Champieux, Research Engagement and Open Science Librarian at OHSU. Robin is the co-founder of the Metrics Toolkit and Awesome Foundation Libraries Chapter. Her...
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Manuscripts Selected For Live-streamed Preprint Journal Club Event
We are teaming up with PREreview during Open Access week to bring together scientists from around the world to discuss and review an actual preprint…live-streamed! We have now selected a manuscript for...
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PLOS Board Appointments
0000-0002-7455-4909 After a careful search and much consideration, we are excited to share with our community five new appointments we’ve made to the PLOS Board. This is a pivotal time for PLOS, and...
View ArticlePLOS Provides Feedback on the Implementation of Plan S
We welcome Plan S as a ‘decisive step towards the realisation of full open access’1, in particular the push it provides towards realization of a research process based on the principles of open...
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Mini Frogs and other PLOS Research Making Headlines in March and April!
Mini Frogs and other PLOS Research Making Headlines in March and April! Five tiny new frog species found in Madagascar–meet the Mini frogs Three of these five new species, all of which range from...
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PLOS welcomes the revised Plan S guidelines
As a fully Open Access publisher entirely ready to support cOAlition S-funded authors, we have always been in a position to give our support to this bold initiative, and entirely agree that the driving...
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Spreading the Word: PLOS Advances Research Through Media Partnerships
Last year, PLOS helped more than 2,300 articles receive media coverage in high-profile outlets including The New York Times, the BBC, National Geographic, Scientific American and The Washington Post....
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Get to know an Academic Editor: Lars Juhl Jensen
Note: PLOS will be attending the ISMB/ECCB conference in Basel, Switzerland starting July 21. Stop by booth 7 and say hello. Lars Juhl Jensen, an Academic Editor for PLOS Computational Biology, will...
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The Canadian Open Neuroscience Platform: Catching Up to Plan S and Going Further
Guest Authors: Dylan Roskams-Edris (Open Science Consultant and Invited Scholar with the Center for Genomics and Policy,), JB Poline (Associate Professor, Neurology and Neurosurgery, McGill...
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