To support increased sharing of open research methodologies -- and in an exciting extension to our partnership with protocols.io -- we are announcing two new peer-reviewed article types in PLOS ONE in…
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Collaboration Show your work. Peer-Reviewed Protocols
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Collaboration PLOS ONE Issues First Publication from Children’s Tumor Foundation Partnership
The Children’s Tumor Foundation issued the following press release on November 5, 2020 The Children’s Tumor Foundation (CTF), the foremost funder of…
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Innovation Early Sharing: Should You Take the Plunge?
What does early sharing accomplish? Scientific discovery is a process of continuous vetting and refinement. While immediate access to the latest findings…
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Innovation Published Peer Review: 1 Year Across PLOS
Last May, PLOS announced a new option for authors to publish their peer review history, and the support from our communities has…
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Innovation Peer Review in Service of Open Science
When we think about Open Science, sharing a diverse array of research products—such as data, code, methods, reagents—immediately comes to mind. More…
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In the News Review Commons is now LIVE
ASAPbio and EMBO Press just launched Review Commons, a platform for high-quality, journal-independent peer review of manuscripts in the life sciences before…
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Innovation Celebrating 6 Months of Published Peer Review at PLOS
We recently passed our six-month anniversary of published peer review options at PLOS!!! Already you can read more than 800 PLOS…
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Innovation Request For Comments on “Data Repository Selection: Criteria That Matter”
This post is a request for comments on the preprint Data Repository Selection: Criteria That Matter via this online form on behalf…
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Innovation Why engage with preprints?
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 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…