This post was co-written by Dan Morgan, Director of Community Relations; Rebecca Kirk, Associate Editorial Director, Madison Crystal, Brand Communications Manager; and…
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Innovation Why engage with preprints?
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Innovation Community Comments and Peer Review: A preprint commenting pilot at PLOS
Researchers have told us that posting manuscripts as preprints before—or at the same time as—submitting them to a journal is a…
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Innovation Journals test the Materials Design Analysis Reporting (MDAR) checklist
We are pleased to share results from a pilot with 13 journals that tested the Materials Design Analysis Reporting (MDAR) checklist, a…
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Innovation Partnering to streamline review
I’m happy to announce PLOS’ participation in a new service, Review Commons, that will provide a platform for rapid, objective, journal-independent…
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In the News medRxiv to PLOS: Direct preprint transfers
Authors with preprints on the new health sciences preprint server medRxiv now have the option to transfer their manuscripts for publication consideration…
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Innovation PLOS Computational Biology announce reproducibility pilot
At PLOS Computational Biology, one of our driving motivations is to provide services and support to our community of authors, editors, reviewers…
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Innovation You’ve completed your review – now get credit with ORCID
For more than five years, PLOS authors have used ORCID to make their professional lives easier. Now reviewers at PLOS can…
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Innovation Published Peer Review (community comments)
In February, we asked researchers about the biggest change they hope to see in Open Science. Nearly 3,000 of you weighed in…
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Innovation Depositing and reporting of reagents: Accelerating open and reproducible science.
The following blog was written by Angela Abitua (ORCiD ID: 0000-0002-8059-4050) and Joanne Kamens (ORCiD ID: 0000-0002-7000-1477) from Addgene. PLOS is excited…
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Innovation PLOS Journals Now OPEN for Published Peer Review
Starting today, ALL PLOS journals will offer authors the option to publish their peer review history alongside their accepted manuscript! We’ve…
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Innovation PLOS Authors Say “Yes” to Preprints
We’ve surpassed 1,300 preprint posts to bioRxiv! This is an incredible milestone for us and for all of our authors who chose…
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Innovation Gathering Steam: Preprints, Librarian Outreach, and Actions for Change
Note: This post was written by Robin Champieux, Research Engagement and Open Science Librarian at OHSU. Robin is the co-founder of the Metrics…