You’ve painstakingly mapped out your research goal: to answer that unanswered question. You’ve conducted your experiments, analyzed the results and written your…
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Early Career Editor’s tips for passing journal checks
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Open Access Open Response to “Economic impact of UKRI open access policy” report
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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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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Innovation Early Sharing: Should You Take the Plunge?
What does early sharing accomplish? Scientific discovery is a process of continuous vetting and refinement. While immediate access to the latest findings…
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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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Open Data What are your priorities for data sharing?
This blog was written by Iain Hrynaszkiewicz, Publisher, Open Research, PLOS. We’ve been working to identify important problems faced by researchers in the practice…
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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…