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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Open Access And This is Why We Should Always Provide Our Data. . .Read more
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post So You Wanna Be a Paleoecologist? Part IIRead more
Paleoecology, Paleodiets, and Paleobiology In my last entry, I explained the basics of stable isotope geochemistry for paleoecology. Now that we have…
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post Book Review: All YesterdaysRead more
Breathing life back into lost worlds is not an easy task–how do you paint, draw, or sculpt an animal that no human…
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post Fossil frogs / The fossil record is not as bad as you think it isRead more
Conventional wisdom holds that the fossil record is data-poor compared to the modern record. Introductory biology textbooks always start their explanation of…
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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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Publishing Announcing the PLOS Global Participation InitiativeRead more
PLOS is pleased to announce a program to increase the global participation of authors in open-access publishing. On September 4th, 2012, we…
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Publishing New PLOS lookRead more
You may have noticed some visual changes to PLOS. Given our growth, it was necessary to provide our well-known logo with a…
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Journal enhancements Better figures to enhance your reading experienceRead more
Time is precious and many researchers use figures to prioritize what to read from the scholarly literature. Today, we’re pleased to announce…
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Alt-Metrics PLoS Article-Level Metrics API launchedRead more
We’re pleased to announce the launch of the Article-Level Metrics API. This Application Programming Interface (API) gives developers access to the statistics…
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Open Access Welcome, Nature. Seriously.Read more
On January 6, 2011, Nature announced a new Open Access (OA) publication called Scientific Reports. Nature’s news underscores the growing acceptance of…
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post PLoS UK office has movedRead more
The PLoS U.K. office is now located in new digs in “Carlyle House” just a 10 minute walk away from our existing…
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Publishing Announcing PLOS BlogsRead more
Today we are pleased to announce the launch of PLOS Blogs, a new network for discussing science in public; covering topics in…