This post was written by Beth Baker, PLOS’ Senior Media Relations Manager. #PowerToThePreprint PLOS actively encourages the posting of preprints – please…
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News Preprints and the Media: A change to how PLOS handles press for papers previously posted as preprintsRead more
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COVID-19 A message to our community regarding COVID-19Read more
By Joerg Heber, Editorial Director, PLOS and Editor-in-Chief, PLOS ONE As the global research community, along with everyone else, adopts measures to slow…
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Publishing Does your article qualify for UK REF 2021?Read more
The REF’s new Open Access requirement Every five or six years, UK academic researchers submit their most impactful research for expert review…
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Advocacy PLOS Joins Other Publishers and Societies in Support of the Proposed White House Policy Regarding Federally Funded ResearchRead more
Note: PLOS and other prominent organizations delivered the following letter to the Trump Administration on January 17, 2020. We encourage all publishing organizations…
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Advocacy The Canadian Open Neuroscience Platform: Catching Up to Plan S and Going FurtherRead more
Guest Authors: Dylan Roskams-Edris (Open Science Consultant and Invited Scholar with the Center for Genomics and Policy,), JB Poline (Associate Professor, Neurology…
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Format for Success Series Looking Good: Tips for creating your PLOS figures graphicsRead more
Enhance your research with tips and tools from the experts on the PLOS Production Team. This post was written by Eric Cain…
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Early Career Early Career Researchers Talk #365papersRead more
I’ve written before about my aspirational, if mercurial, commitment to #365papers — the social media challenge to read one peer-reviewed paper a…
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Basic Neuroscience “Neuroscience at Scale: Synaptomics tries to make sense of the brain at a stupefying scale” by Samuel RoseRead more
Even though it’s smaller than a basketball, the scale of the human brain can feel astronomical. “There are as many neurons in…
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Publishing PLOS UpdateRead more
In 2009, we launched PLOS Currents as an experimental platform for rapid communication of non-standard publications. A few communities embraced the experiment…
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Ecology The Rollercoaster of Exploding PollenRead more
When I think about reading peer-reviewed natural history papers — including contemporary articles in a ‘Natural History Miscellany Note’ or ‘The Scientific…
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Biodiversity Saving Species from OurselvesRead more
A recent opinion piece in the Washington Post from Dr. Robert Alexander Pyron has created quite the stir in the conservation and…
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Innovation Unrestricted Text and Data Mining with allofPLOSRead more
Content mining, machine learning, text and data mining (TDM) and data analytics all refer to the process of obtaining information through machine-read…