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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 Siettos from the Universita degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Italy and colleagues.
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Spreading the Word: PLOS Advances Research Through Media Partnerships
Last year, PLOS helped more than 2,300 articles receive media coverage in high-profile outlets including The New York Times, the BBC, National Geographic, Scientific American and The Washington Post. How do we do it? For Posted by in collaboration, featured, impact, In the News, media, open access, open science, Publishing, science communication
PLOS welcomes the revised Plan S guidelines
As a fully Open Access publisher entirely ready to support cOAlition S-funded authors, we have always been in a position to give our support to this bold initiative, and entirely agree that the driving principles
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PLOS Journals Now OPEN for Published Peer Review
Starting today, ALL PLOS journals will offer authors the option to publish their peer review history alongside their accepted manuscript! We’ve been excited to make this announcement, and make major strides towards a more Gordon Research Conference on Craniofacial Morphogenesis and Tissue Regeneration (February 11 – 16, 2018): Licia Selleri & Ophir Klein
Gordon Research Conference on Craniofacial Morphogenesis and Tissue Regeneration (February 11 – 16, 2018): Licia Selleri & Ophir Klein Posted August 22, 2018 by post-info As part of its mission to encourage engagement Europe Expanded the “No Elsevier Deal” Zone & This Could Change Everything
A couple of heavy-duty battering rams have hit the journal subscription system in Europe. And they are so big, this will likely set off a chain reaction that changes the scholarly communicationPosted by in featured, journals, open access, science communication
On Story Telling
Last Monday night I took the mic at a Toronto bar. The whole second floor was full of conservation scientists in town for the North American Congress for Conservation Biology, the music from belowGenes – way weirder than you thought
orcid.org/0000-0001-5816-9771 Pretty much everyone, at least in societies with access to public education or exposure to media in its various forms, has been introduced to the idea of the gene, but “exposure does not equateBuilding a Great Scientific Abstract: A Quick Checklist
It should never be a rushed afterthought. An awful lot is riding on the quality of scientific abstracts. Most readers will rely on that summary, delving in no further. And a conferenceWinners of the 2018 PLOS Computational Biology Research Prize
Winners of the 2018 PLOS Computational Biology Research Prize post-info It’s time to celebrate the best of PLOS Computational Biology! In 2017 PLOS Computational Biology launched the “PLOS Computational Biology Research Prize” program