MORE 'PLOS' POSTS
From a PLOS Blog Post: Not all Open Access is created equal. To move beyond the seemingly simple question of Is it Open Access?” PLOS, SPARC and OASPA have collaborated to develop a resource called HowOpenIsIt?” This resource identifies the core components of open access (OA) and how they are implemented across the spectrum between […]
Title Scholarometer: A Social Framework for Analyzing Impact across Disciplines Authors Jasleen Kaur Center for Complex Networks and Systems Research, School of Informatics & Computing, Indiana University, Bloomington Diep Thi Hoang University of Engineering and Technology, Vietnam National University Center for Complex Networks and Systems Research, School of Informatics & Computing, Indiana University, Bloomington Lino […]
Scholarly Publishing: Public Library of Science (PLOS) Launches Global Participation Initiative
Data Files, Funding, Libraries, News, Open Access, PLOS, Public Libraries, Publishing
|From an Official PLOS Blog Post: PLOS is pleased to announce a program to increase the global participation of authors in open-access publishing. On September 4th, 2012, we launched the PLOS Global Participation Initiative, which aims to encourage submissions from researchers around the world who may previously have been prevented or limited in their ability […]
Open Access: Milestones: Public Library of Science (PLoS) Publishes Its 50,000th Research Articles
|From The PLOS Blog: PLoS is delighted to announce that our 50,000th research article was recently published. To everyone who has contributed to this achievement – from our authors, editors, and reviewers to our staff, board, and advocates at large– we’d like to offer a well-deserved thank you. [Clip] We still have a lot of […]
From Highwire Press and eLife: eLife, the new funder-researcher collaboration in science communication, has selected HighWire Press as the platform for its new open‐access journal for life and biomedical science. First announced in summer 2011, eLife is a researcher-led initiative for the best in science and science communication. Backed by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, […]
Scholarly Publishing: PeerJ Launches Open Access Journal and Preprint Server (Roundup)
Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Funding, Interviews, Jobs, Journal Articles, Libraries, Open Access, Patrons and Users, PLOS, Profiles, Public Libraries, Publishing, Roundup
|Here’s a roundup of some of today’s PeerJ launch coverage. + New OA Journal, Backed by O’Reilly, May Disrupt Academic Publishing (by Michael Kelley, Library Journal) PeerJ will do without the widely employed and often expensive article-processing charge (commonly called author fees) of other OA journals, which average about $900 per published paper, according to […]
Title Research Blogs and the Discussion of Scholarly Information Authors Hadas Shema Department of Information Science, Bar-Ilan University (Israel) Judit Bar-Ilan Department of Information Science, Bar-Ilan University (Israel) Mike Thelwall University of Wolverhampton (UK) Source PLoS ONE 7(5) e35869. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0035869 Abstract The research blog has become a popular mechanism for the quick discussion of scholarly […]
From Heidelberg University (Germany): What can social networks on the internet know about persons who are friends of members, but have no user profile of their own? Researchers from the Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Computing of Heidelberg University studied this question. Their work shows that through network analytical and machine learning tools the relationships between […]
From a PLOS Blog Post: We are pleased to announce that PLoS Currents has moved to a new publishing platform, offering easier interaction to all users. This innovative, online publication channel for the rapid communication of new scientific research and ideas aims to minimize delays between the generation and publication of new research [Clip] For […]
Roundup: News from OCLC, Washington University Libraries, EBSCO, & PLOS
EBSCO, Libraries, News, Open Access, PLOS, Publishing, Roundup
|Gene Oliver promoted to Vice President, OCLC Global Systems and Information Technology Washington University Libraries introduce Open Scholarship repository EBSCO Discovery Service Expands German Content with WTI – Frankfurt Agreement Announcing PLoS Currents: Disasters