PLoS ONE recently published articlesThe new year is in full swing and we are continuing to add functionality to the articles that we publish. This time we’re adding links, via Pubget, to the PDFs of citing articles (as recorded by Cross Ref).
Pubget is a search engine for life-sciences PDFs. If Pubget have found a PDF which is freely available [...]
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Late last year we launched a new Collection of articles (titled “Structural Biology and Human Health: Medically Relevant Proteins from the SGC”) which makes use of leading edge, three dimensional molecular animation technology and today we have added 2 new articles to this Collection (which will continue to grow over time).
The new articles are:
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It was on Dec 20th, 2006 that PLoS ONE launched, and 2009 (only our third full year of publication) has been packed full of exciting developments. To note our birthday, I took the opportunity to round up the major events of the past 12 months. There have been an awful lot of them and it [...]
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Here is our featured author question for December:
Q: My paper was recently published in PLoS ONE but I’ve noticed a few typos. How can I correct these errors?
A: PLoS ONE corrects most of the errors found in published articles via the addition of a Minor or Formal Correction Note to the paper. Minor Corrections [...]
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Today PLoS ONE launched a new Collection titled “Structural Biology and Human Health: Medically Relevant Proteins from the SGC” which makes use of leading edge, three dimensional molecular animation technology.
Because of our Open Access license, which allows anyone to re-use our content provided they make appropriate attribution, the SGC (a public-private partnership created to [...]
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(cross posted from a blog made by Mark Patterson on the PLoS Blog)
As part of our ongoing article-level metrics program, we’re delighted to announce that all seven PLoS journals will now provide online usage data for published articles, going back to their date of original publication. With this addition, the suite of metrics on PLoS [...]
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Here at PLoS ONE we pride ourselves on using technology to try and make life just that bit easier for our audience. A few weeks ago we re-organized our main table of contents (eToC) email (which goes out once a week, and contains all publications for that week), but a few of you have also been [...]
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As part of our ongoing efforts to help users spread our articles across the web to reach relevant communities, we are working with an increasing number of interesting partners. The latest additional feature to all our articles is a bookmarklet from Mendeley which is:
.. a free social software for managing and sharing research papers. It [...]
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Science, nature and medical blogs are an increasingly important part of the scientific publishing ecosystem:
If one thinks of the scientific paper as the center of an ecosystem, and the notes, comments and ratings on the paper as an additional, outer layer of the ecosystem, then the blogs and media are the ‘outside world’. By linking [...]
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Over the past two years or so I have been repeatedly asked about the commenting, annotating and rating functionality on PLoS ONE articles. As Euan Edie, Deepak Singh and Cameron Neylon have noted, while the amount of user activity on our articles is still not at the level we might hope for, it is much [...]
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At the end of March, PLoS ONE (and all other PLoS titles using the Topaz platform) upgraded the way that information is displayed on individual journal articles, as well as adding entirely new sources of information to those articles. These improvements have significant implications for both authors and readers and will make it considerably [...]
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Pubcasts of PLoS ONE papers
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Rating articles in PLoS ONE
As you may remember, last summer we released the data on ratings, notes, comments and trackbacks on PLoS ONE to the community for analysis and Euan Adie, Deepak Singh and Cameron Neylon wrote their takes on the statistics as a whole, not particularly separating the ratings from the rest of the analysis. Last week, I [...]
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