We had an outage on our staging.plos.org domain resources yesterday due to a DNS issue. As a result, www.staging.plos.org and all of…
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Technology DNS Issue with staging.plos.org – Resolved
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Technology Journal Websites – Topaz 0.9 rc1 Upgrade
Last night, we upgraded the journal websites to Topaz 0.9 rc1 (rc1 because this is a “beta” 0.9 release). The development for…
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Technology Topaz 0.9 (rc1) – Site Maintenance Tonight on the PLoS Journals
We’re going to take down the journal websites for a few hours tonight starting at 7pm PST. Russ is going to upgrade…
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Technology Sunday Outage Sunday
We experienced a hardware malfunction yesterday that caused the TOPAZ hosted journals to be offline from 4pm – 10pm PST. James sent…
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Technology Update on Performance Issues of PLoS Websites
Performance of the websites hosted on Topaz has increased over the last two weeks with a variety of patches ported to the…
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Technology Performance Issues of PLoS Websites
We’re continuing to experience slowness and intermittent downtime for the websites hosted on Topaz. At this time, the priorities for the IT…
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Technology Topaz Release Candidate 0.8.2.1
Looks like I’ve been a bit remiss about posting release candidates on this blog as we’re on the third release candidate since…
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Technology Undergoing (Too Much) Site Maintenance
Many users have seen the "undergoing routine site maintenance" page splashed across their browsers a bit too often recently when browsing to…
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Technology PLoS Blog update
Last week, we made a little upgrade to the PLoS Blog. If you look at any individual post you will see that…
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Technology Zotero Translator for PLoS Articles
The Zotero developers announced that Zotero is now compatible with all PLoS journals. The new Zotero translator allows users to capture metadata…
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Technology Topaz Release Candidate 0.8
In the past, I used the title “PLoS ONE Release Candidate.” But with this release candidate, the Topaz framework allows multiple journal…
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Technology SciVee Launch = Scientific Publication and Video Presentation
SciVee is now open to the scientific community. SciVee allows scientists to upload a video or audio file and synchronize the video/audio…