We’re excited to share a new logo and a new “look” for PLOS! The new visuals you’ll see are a reflection of…
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Publishing Your PLOS, New Logo
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Open Access 2020: A turning point for research data policy?
Note: This blog was written by PLOS’ Iain Hrynaszkiewicz, Publisher, Open Research Open science should be boosted in 2020 as the number…
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Publishing Does your article qualify for UK REF 2021?
The REF’s new Open Access requirement Every five or six years, UK academic researchers submit their most impactful research for expert review…
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In the News PLOS and the University of California announce open access publishing agreement
Note: PLOS and the University of California issued the following press release on Wednesday, February 19th at 9:00am PST. SAN FRANCISCO &mdash…
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COVID-19 Novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) outbreak
The novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) outbreak is both saddening and concerning. The scientific community has come together rapidly to address this outbreak in…
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Advocacy PLOS Joins Other Publishers and Societies in Support of the Proposed White House Policy Regarding Federally Funded Research
Note: PLOS and other prominent organizations delivered the following letter to the Trump Administration on January 17, 2020. We encourage all publishing organizations…
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Format for Success Series Multi-panel figures: Using GIMP to combine individual images for use in PLOS articles
Note: This post was written by Eric Cain, a member of PLOS’ Production Team. This is the second installment in a…
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In the News Review Commons is now LIVE
ASAPbio and EMBO Press just launched Review Commons, a platform for high-quality, journal-independent peer review of manuscripts in the life sciences before…
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Open Access “To preprint or not to preprint?” What’s the opportunity cost of early, non-peer-reviewed publicly available research?
Note: this post was written by Sara Rouhi, Director of Strategic Partnerships for PLOS, and was originally published on NISO’s Homepage. NISO recently…
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Innovation Why engage with preprints?
This post was co-written by Dan Morgan, Director of Community Relations; Rebecca Kirk, Associate Editorial Director, Madison Crystal, Brand Communications Manager; and…
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Preprints Trends in Preprints
Ever since our partnership with bioRxiv started in May 2018, we’ve been collecting data on submissions that choose to be posted…
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Innovation Partnering to streamline review
I’m happy to announce PLOS’ participation in a new service, Review Commons, that will provide a platform for rapid, objective, journal-independent…