PLOS is part of a group of publishers supporting a rapid review initiative for COVID-19 research. We are also co-signing an Open…
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Collaboration PLOS joins other publishers in an initiative and call to maximize the efficiency of peer review of COVID-19 researchRead more
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Future of Open Series Building the foundation for future research through Open data, code and protocolsRead more
This blog is part of our series on the Future of Open Science. Read previous posts here. In our last post, we talked…
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Open Access Power to the PreprintRead more
This press release was originally published on the Official PLOS blog. Because of possible interest in the Paleontology community, we at PLOS Paleo…
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Dinosaurs Social Media, Preprints, and a Dinosaur ToothRead more
Today my colleague George Phillips and I published a paper on the first known ceratopsid horned dinosaur from eastern North America. The…
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Open Data Best Practices for Bone MeasurementsRead more
It’s no secret to most of my colleagues that I’m a big fan of measurements in papers. Some of this stems from…
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Interview Author Interview: Justin Adams on a New Digital Fossil Archive (Part 2)Read more
Yesterday, we started an interview with Justin Adams, senior author on a recent PLOS ONE paper discussing a newly available set of 3D digital…
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Interview Author Interview: Justin Adams on a New Digital Fossil Archive (Part 1)Read more
As a digital fossil buff, I’m always excited to learn about new efforts for serving 3D fossil data. Thus, a recent PLOS ONE paper by…
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Open Access Behind the Scenes at PhyloPicRead more
Open science is about more than just tossing some publications and data notebooks into the digital ether. It’s all about communication–so, at…
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Open Data Sharing Paleodata (Part 4): MorphoSourceRead more
Today I continue my series highlighting repositories for paleontological raw data. Previous posts in this series can be found here, here, and here…
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Open Access Sharing Paleodata (Part 3): MorphoBankRead more
Today I am making good on an old promise to highlight more repositories for paleontological raw data. Previous posts in this series…
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Open Data Sharing Phylogenetic Data — Public Comment InvitedRead more
Data sharing is important–it helps scientists to reproduce others’ results, add data to previous analyses, and otherwise maximize the impact of an…
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Open Data How much did that dead bird weigh?Read more
“How heavy was it?” Body mass is not just an intuitive way to compare the size of animals, but it’s also critical…