Today, we are happy to share with you our 2009 Progress Update which covers the highlights of the 2009 fiscal year (a…
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Progress Update Announcing the PLoS Progress Update
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Technology PLoS ALM Data in Google Fusion Tables
Google Fusion Tables is a new Google labs endeavor that allows people to upload data tables from spreadsheets for sharing and visualizing…
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Technology Colo Move and Journal Site Upgrades
Two big events happened recently for the I.T. team. We moved the PLoS production servers to a new colo facility and upgraded…
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post Obama selects PLoS Co-Founder Harold Varmus as Director of National Cancer Institute
It was announced by the White House on Tuesday that Harold Varmus, who is currently the President of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer…
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Technology A new search server is powering the PLoS journal websites
Last night, we hooked up a new search server to the PLoS journal websites and now search queries are returning results at…
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Technology Details on Outage and Recovery of PLoS Journal Websites
UnitedLayer, our collocation facility for the production servers, experienced an outage yesterday. From UnitedLayer: “A series of power brownouts occurred today at…
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Technology PLoS Journals Outage – January 19, 2010
The PLoS journal websites are experiencing an outage due to a hardware malfunction after our colocation (United Layer) experienced a brown out…
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Technology Update of the PLoS Journals to Ambra 0.9.5
We will update the PLoS journals with the Ambra 0.9.5 release tonight. This release focused on development of the long-awaited PLoS Queue…
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Open Access Open Access Week
This week – 19th-23rd October 2009 – is the Open Access week around the world – fitting nicely with the 5th birthday…
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Technology Network Outage at UnitedLayer
It seems that the storm slamming the Bay Area also affected the co-location facility UnitedLayer. A power “glitch” in their building brought…
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Technology Update to the PLoS Journals
Last night (September 15), we updated the PLoS Journals to Ambra 0.9.4. This release culminates a many-sprint development effort and huge data…
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PLoS Medicine World Hepatitis Day: Prospects for the Future – Guest blog by Paul Klenerman and colleagues
“World Hepatitis Day…does not usually make the headlines in the same way that World AIDS day does, but viral hepatitis affects about…