From the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) meeting in 2002 to the present day, Open Access has come a long way, and…
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Advocacy Be Bold, Go for Gold!Read more
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Announcement ISMB/ECCB 2017 – Visit PLOS at Booth 16!Read more
Heading to Prague for ISMB/ECCB 2017? Swing by Booth 16 and say hello to PLOS! PLOS Computational Biology Publications Manager Gary Beardmore…
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Bioinformatics Bad Identifiers are the Potholes of the Information Superhighway: Take-Home Lessons for ResearchersRead more
By Julie McMurry, Lilly Winfree, Melissa Haendel This is a guest post by three of the authors of a recent…
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Genetics PLOS Genetics Research Prize 2017: The story behind last year’s winning researchRead more
In 2016, the PLOS Genetics Research Prize was awarded to Naranjo, Smith et al., for their work on a complex trait adaptation…
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Announcement Protocols: The Devil is in the DetailsRead more
Hopefully you know already about the PLOS partnership with protocols.io; if you don’t, PLOS announced this almost exactly a month ago. What…
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Advocacy Setting Your Cites on OpenRead more
The Initiative for Open Citations (I4OC) was launched on April 6th, 2017. Over the course of about 6 months, the initiative…
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Announcement ASCB 2016 meeting (San Francisco, Dec 3 – 7)Read more
This Saturday the ASCB 2016 meeting kicks off in San Francisco, and the city is already packed with excited cell biologists…
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Advocacy Double bill on citation metrics: A new alternative to the Impact Factor plus a handy guide to citation normalizationRead more
On Monday, PLOS Biology published two articles on citation metric-based evaluation of published research. In the first, a Meta-Research Article (a…
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Announcement PLOS Computational Biology Symposium 2016Read more
We are pleased to invite you to attend a PLOS Computational Biology Symposium at the National Institutes of Health. The details of…
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Biology PLOS Biology is at FENS Forum 2016!Read more
The 10th FENS Forum of Neuroscience started on July 2nd, 2016 in Copenhagen, Denmark. PLOS Biology and the rest of the PLOS…
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Genetics Scientific transitions: Mammalian meiosis expert Paula Cohen’s journey from uterus to gonadRead more
In science, as in life, chance opportunities have the potential to open up exciting new doors. Paula Cohen, a researcher at Cornell…
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Announcement “Slice of PLOS” Grows WingsRead more
We hope that you’ve been enjoying our blog post series “Slices of PLOS.” These posts were designed to feature research articles…