Today PLOS announced a revised Data Policy that will come into effect on 1 March 2014, bringing in further measures to ensure…
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Data And Another Thing: Supporting Information Files at PLOS
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Bioinformatics The First Individual Genome: One Is the Loneliest Number
When Craig Venter published the complete sequence of his genome in PLOS Biology in 2007, in some ways, it was old news…
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Announcement PLOS Genetics partners with Dryad
PLOS Genetics is pleased to announce its new partnership with Dryad, an Open Access repository for data underlying peer-reviewed articles. Following PLOS…
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Biology Dude, Where’s My Data?
Q: Where do you look for scientific data? A: In scientific papers, stoopid! Sadly, of course, anyone who’s read a…
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Biology It’s official – the animal study literature is biased… but whose fault is it?
Testing a new drug on human subjects is expensive, risky and ethically complex, so the vast majority of potential treatments are…
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Announcement Improving Data Access at PLOS
In this guest post, John Chodacki, Director of Product Management at PLOS, shares PLOS’ recent advances in improving data access. As part…
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Biology Why I love the H-index
The H-index – a small number with a big impact. First introduced by Jorge E. Hirsh in 2005, it is a relatively…
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Data Dealing with data
PLoS Biology aspires to drive openness in data use and re-use, not just open access to the literature. We are pleased to…