PLOS generally refutes the assertion that OA via the UKRI policy is economically damaging, regarding the FTI Consulting report: “Economic assessment of the impact of the new Open Access policy…
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Open Access Open Response to “Economic impact of UKRI open access policy” report
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Innovation Imagining a Transformed Scientific Publication Landscape
Open Science is not a finish line, but rather a means to an end. An underlying goal behind the movement towards Open…
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Collaboration Reimagine Biomedical Research for a Healthier Future: Essay Challenge
The Health Research Alliance (HRA) and the Public Library of Science (PLOS) have partnered to launch the Reimagine Biomedical Research for a Healthier Future Essay Challenge…
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Assessment How do researchers evaluate research?
PLOS has received a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to study how researchers evaluate both the credibility and impact of…
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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Our commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion
The Black Lives Matter movement in the US and elsewhere has rightly brought about a much-needed reexamination of deeply rooted issues around…
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Assessment Improving Research Assessment in the Triage Phase of Review
Authors: Helen Sitar is the community coordinator for DORA and a Science Policy Programme Officer at EMBO and Anna Hatch is DORA’s…
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Publishing A Selfish Reason To Share Research Data
This blog was written by Giovanni Colavizza, Isla Staden, Kirstie Whitaker and Barbara McGillivray of the Alan Turing Institute and Iain Hrynaszkiewicz, PLOS and…
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COVID-19 The Digital Migration: Lessons About Open Science Arising from the COVID19 Crisis
This blog post was written Dylan Roskams-Edris, Open Science Alliance Officer, Tanenbaum Open Science Institute, The Neuro. This piece resulted from an…
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Collaboration PLOS joins other publishers in an initiative and call to maximize the efficiency of peer review of COVID-19 research
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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Publishing The importance of being second – PLOS-wide edition
Our journals which are selective for novelty — PLOS Biology, PLOS Medicine, PLOS Computational Biology, PLOS Genetics, PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases…
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COVID-19 PLOS ONE publishes additional Coronavirus-related papers
Today PLOS ONE added to its collection of COVID-19 papers since we started fast-tracking submissions on January 31st. This study was conducted by Constantinos…
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COVID-19 A message to our community regarding COVID-19
By Joerg Heber, Editorial Director, PLOS and Editor-in-Chief, PLOS ONE As the global research community, along with everyone else, adopts measures to slow…