At PLOS we warmly welcome the Jan 24, 2022 statement from the Wissenschaftsrat advocating that Open Access should become the default for scientific publications, but encourage further support of the…
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Open Access PLOS response to the Wissenschaftsrat (German Science Council) statement on Open Access
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Academic Contributions Authors aren’t the only ones: Acknowledging peer reviewers
Written by Lindsay Morton In this third and final entry in our three-part series on academic credit, we turn our attention to…
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Academic Contributions What author order can (and cannot) tell us: Understanding contributorship
Written by Lindsay Morton Welcome back to the second in our three-part series on academic credit. In this post, we focus on…
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Global Research Author Q&A: PLOS Global Public Health
To celebrate the launch of PLOS Global Public Health, we spoke with authors of our first published articles to find out a little…
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Academic Contributions Developing a fair and accurate picture of academic contributions
Written by Lindsay Morton In the sciences, credit counts. As a research scientist, your personal record directly determines your future opportunities in…
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Open Science One (more) small step for preprints, one giant leap for rapid and responsible sharing of health research at PLOS
New opportunities to preprint with PLOS and medRxiv Note: This blog was updated on March 7 2022 to reflect the addition of…
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In the News PLOS and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Extend Partnership to Accelerate Preprint Sharing in Medicine
Note: PLOS published the following press release on January 6, 2022 SAN FRANCISCO — The Public Library of Science (PLOS) and Cold…
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Meet the Editor Meet your PLOS Sustainability and Transformation Editor-in-Chief
Watch this video featuring Editor-in-Chief Lian Pin Koh as he describes the values, planned impact and future of PLOS Sustainability and Transformation…
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Collaboration Study finds COVID-19 research freely accessible, but research data sharing and preprinting are low
A report has been published that studies how well the commitments to the Wellcome-coordinated COVID-19 statement and the COVID-19 Rapid Review Initiative have been kept…
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Collaboration Scholarly Publishers Agree on Standards For Inclusion and Diversity
As a signatory of the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Joint Commitment for Action on Inclusion and Diversity in Publishing, PLOS is pleased to announce…