Open access publication has, for the most part, long since ceased to be controversial. Although it certainly isn’t without its minor issues…
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Dinosaurs Dinosaurs and Open Access: the State of the FieldRead more
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PLOS ONE Shake Your Tail Bone! (and shape your skeleton, if you’re a bird)Read more
Those poor tail bones, always getting shortened and lost during the course of evolution. A long tail is the default condition for…
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Climate Change Climate Change and Paleontology: Back to the FutureRead more
This week and next at PLOS Blogs, we are doing a focus on climate change. This is leading up to a great…
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Open Access And This is Why We Should Always Provide Our Data. . .Read more
For a long time now, I’ve been beating the drum of “provide your data.” If you’re willing to take take a whole…
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PLOS ONE Bird brains: what they can tell us about ecology and evolutionRead more
For my inaugural post here at The Integrative Paleontologists, I am going to discuss a recent paper in PLOS ONE that highlights…
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In the News PLoS ONE: Editors, contents and goalsRead more
Recently, Kent Anderson posted some misleading comments about PLoS ONE on the Scholarly Kitchen, a blog site established by the Society for…
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In the News PLoS ONE indexed by Web of ScienceRead more
Today we learned that by the end of this week PLoS ONE (in keeping with all other PLoS journals) will be indexed…
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Open Access PLoS Journals – measuring impact where it mattersRead more
In 2009, in this online world, how do most scientists and medics find the articles they need to read? The answer for…
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PLOS ONE Einstein was smart, but Could He Play the Violin? – the winner of the synchroblogging contestRead more
Today is PLoS ONE’s second anniversary and we’re celebrating by announcing that the winner of the second PLoS synchroblogging competition is SciCurious…
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Open Access 2007 Impact factors for PLoS JournalsRead more
The latest impact factors (for 2007) have just been released from Thomson Reuters. They are as follows: PLoS Biology – 13.5 PLoS…