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 A new search server is powering the PLoS journal websites
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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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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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Open Access PLoS Journals – measuring impact where it matters
In 2009, in this online world, how do most scientists and medics find the articles they need to read? The answer for…
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Technology Inaugural Meeting of the Concept Web Alliance
On May 7 – 8th, I attended the inaugural meeting of the Concept Web Alliance. CWA wants to enable interoperability between large…
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Technology PLoS Biology Migration to Ambra/Topaz
Yesterday, we migrated PLoS Biology to the Ambra/Topaz platform. This completed a two year, 5 journal, ~9000 article migration involving many of…
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Technology PLoS Journal Outage on April 9
A number of factors contributed to the long outage today. The outage was caused by the sabotaged fiber-optic cable lines San Jose…
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Technology PLoS Journals upgrade to Topaz 0.9.2
Tonight, we upgraded the PLoS journal websites to Topaz 0.9.2. This release is chock full of user interface changes and enhancements. We’ve…
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Technology PLoS Journal Websites – Upgrade to Topaz 0.9.1
At 5pm PST, we will update the PLoS journal websites to Topaz 0.9.1.. The journal websites will be offline for approximately one…