Last month, the new PLOS Cholera Channel joined existing Veterans Disability & Rehabilitation Research, Tuberculosis and Open Source Toolkit Channels in providing…
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Innovation PLOS Channels Provide Opportunity for Discovery, Exploration and Contextual InsightsRead more
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In the News Protocols.io Tools for PLOS Authors: Reproducibility and RecognitionRead more
Solutions to the challenges of reproducibility in experimental science should be as diverse as the challenges themselves. Inconsistent reagents, barriers to the…
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In the News The Best of Both Worlds: Preprints and JournalsRead more
Update December 5, 2016: PLOS Genetics now has in place a new initiative to use preprint servers for identifying and soliciting manuscripts. Please…
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Open Access PLOS appoints Dr. Joerg Heber Editor-in-Chief of PLOS ONERead more
PLOS announced today that after an extensive search, Dr. Joerg Heber has been appointed Editor-in-Chief of PLOS ONE. Heber will be responsible…
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Dinosaurs Chew on this! Mammal-like mastication for the dinosaur LeptoceratopsRead more
We all chew, but hardly ever think about it. Even a moment’s consideration, though, reveals how complex of a process it actually…
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Assessment Measuring Up: Impact Factors Do Not Reflect Article Citation RatesRead more
This special blog post is co-authored by PLOS Executive Editor Véronique Kiermer, Université de Montréal Associate Professor of Information Science Vincent…
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In the News PLOS Supports Early Career Researchers with Travel Award and Broader InitiativeRead more
PLOS supports the growth of Early Career Researchers (ECRs) as they build skills in science communication, become champions of Open Science and…
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Alt-Metrics Digital Identifiers Improve Recognition and Credit: ORCIDRead more
Connectivity and integrated data are moving ahead as the best minds in metadata, digital identifiers and networked discovery collaborate to ensure that…
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In the News PLOS Publication Costs UpdateRead more
Open Access scientific publishing makes scholarship available globally and relieves scholarly institutions from the overwhelming burden of commercial subscription fees. Because of…
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Dinosaurs The Curse of the Horned Dinosaur EggRead more
Horned dinosaurs (ceratopsians) just can’t catch a break when it comes to their fossilized eggs. The first purported examples turned up in…
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Open Data Sharing Paleodata (Part 4): MorphoSourceRead more
Today I continue my series highlighting repositories for paleontological raw data. Previous posts in this series can be found here, here, and here…
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post FMRI under the Microscope: An interview with MRI Physicist PractiCal fMRIRead more
By Emilie Reas, PLOS Neuroscience Community Editor Since its development in the early 1990’s, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) has grown in…