Publishing to Keep up with Ebola
As you read this, thread-like viruses less than one micron in length are spreading through human populations in West Africa, taking lives, wrecking communities and generally creating havoc in the...
View ArticlePublishing Initiatives at PLOS: Improving the Author Experience
The last few months have brought exciting developments at PLOS, and we’ll be doing more in 2015 to make the publishing experience with PLOS even better. Today’s post will talk about just some of what...
View ArticleResearchers Changing the Way We Respond to Epidemics with Wikipedia and Twitter
“A global disease-forecasting system will change the way we respond to epidemics.” Dr. Sara Del Valle, Los Alamos National Laboratory The media and broad scientific community have taken note of a...
View Article2014: By the Numbers
PLOS enters its 12th year poised to deliver innovations that will make science publishing easier, faster and more satisfying. Thanks to everyone involved, we draw on a robust peer review community,...
View ArticleStarch, Oil, Water and Arsenic: New Plant Translational Research
by Christina Kary PLOS launched a Collection last year, “The Promise of Plant Translational Research”. Here’s an update on how it’s going, and where we hope to go from here. In my former life as...
View ArticleHow Articles Get Noticed and Advance the Scientific Conversation
By Victoria Costello, PLOS Senior Social Media & Community Editor The good news is you’ve published your manuscript! The bad news? With two million other new research articles likely to be...
View ArticleAny Questions about our Data Policy?
by PLOS Biology, PLOS Genetics and PLOS Computational Biology Publication is the end of one journey, but the beginning of another (longer) one, where the ideas and the underlying data that shaped them...
View ArticleBusting foes of post-publication peer review of a psychotherapy study
As described in the last issue of Mind the Brain, peaceful post-publication peer reviewers (PPPRs) were ambushed by an author and an editor. They used the usual home team advantages that journals have...
View ArticleRecent Changes to the PLOS Journal Web Sites
PLOS has recently updated the navigation and layout of our guidelines and policy pages across all seven of our journal web sites. These changes were made to enhance user experience and make sure our...
View ArticleUpdate on ‘PLOS Science Wednesday’ redditscience AMA series, upcoming...
After seven PLOS Science Wednesday “Ask Me Anything” (AMA) sessions on redditscience, we’re pleased to report that this pilot PLOS science communication vehicle has received a robust community response...
View ArticleNew Charges of Climate Skeptic’s Undisclosed Ties to Energy Industry...
In theory, it shouldn’t matter where authors of scientific papers get their research funding, a longtime journal editor once told me. Papers should be judged on their own merits, not based on who...
View ArticlePLOS Appoints Veronique Kiermer as Executive Editor for PLOS Journals
PLOS announced today that after an extensive search, Dr. Veronique Kiermer has been appointed Executive Editor. Kiermer will be responsible for the editorial and content direction and vision for PLOS’...
View ArticleResearch Matters
Research Matters is a new article series in which active scientists speak directly about why basic research in their field matters. It bridges the gap between academic research and the public by...
View ArticlePublishing Initiatives at PLOS: A Look Back and a Look Ahead
In January 2015, we wrote about exciting developments at PLOS specifically designed to improve the author and community experience. The changes begun at the end of 2014 included a redesign of our PDF...
View ArticlePLOS Genetics’ Tenth Anniversary
2015 marks the tenth anniversary of publishing cutting-edge research at PLOS Genetics. Since the inaugural issue on the 25th of July 2005, PLOS Genetics has been dedicated to supporting the scientists...
View ArticleAMA Preview: The Physician “Brain Drain” from Sub-Saharan Africa to the US:...
A recent PLOS One research article, “Monitoring Sub-Saharan African Physician Migration and Recruitment Post-Adoption of the WHO Code of Practice: Temporal and Geographic Patterns in the United...
View ArticleKey New Species Discoveries of 2014
While there’s no denying the ongoing global extinction of animals, microbes and plants, the discovery of new species provides critical information into the puzzle of earth’s biodiversity and...
View ArticleMore sciencey than the rest? The competitive edge of positive psychology...
Is positive psychology coaching better than what its competitors offer? Is positive psychology coaching the science-oriented brand or does it just look sciency? How do we judge? In Mind the Brain,...
View ArticleThe Trouble with Transparency
Last week we posted an article by two journalists, Paul D. Thacker and Charles Seife, who argued that the integrity of the scientific and medical literature depends on protecting tools that ensure...
View Article2014-2015 PLOS Progress Update Available
Each year PLOS releases a Progress Update, an annual overview of innovations, activities and journal highlights that provide insight into how the organization is moving scientific communication and...
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