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 Field
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PLOS ONE Shake Your Tail Bone! (and shape your skeleton, if you’re a bird)
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 Future
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. . .
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 evolution
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 goals
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 Science
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 matters
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 contest
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 Journals
The latest impact factors (for 2007) have just been released from Thomson Reuters. They are as follows: PLoS Biology – 13.5 PLoS…