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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 a particular area of study and offering a way for exceptional research to be recognized and highlighted. All Channel content is curated by our expert Channel Editors, who are active leaders in their fields of research.

Our first Channel, launched a year ago, was the Veterans Disability & Rehabilitation Research Channel, soon followed by Channels for Tuberculosis, Cholera, Disease Forecasting & Surveillance, Responding to Climate Change and the Open Source Toolkit. To celebrate the first year of these Channels, we are awarding a prize of $500 to the authors of the best PLOS research featured in our first three Channels (Veterans Disability & Rehabilitation Research, Tuberculosis and Open Source Toolkit), with the winners chosen via a public vote. The polls will soon be available on Twitter and we’ll share more information about the competition on the PLOS Channels and Collections blog in the next few days.

Interested in getting your paper featured in a Channel? Authors are encouraged to suggest their papers for inclusion in a relevant Channel – simply contact us at channels@plos.org (email) or @PLOSChannels (Twitter) to let us know about your work, and Channel Editors will consider it for the next update. PLOS authors can also suggest a target Channel when submitting their manuscript, via the cover letter or the submission form.

PLOS believes that bringing communities together means research is shared more freely, and discoveries can be accelerated. If you’d like to discuss working with PLOS on a Channel for your community, email channels@plos.org – we’d love to hear your ideas.

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