PLoS ONE recently published articlesAs you may be aware, as part of our ongoing article-level metrics program, we provide a downloadable Excel file for the entire dataset (3 Mb zipped, but 35 Mb when unzipped). The first such file was created when we launched the usage data (in September 2009) and we have just updated it with the latest [...]
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On Feb 20th, Microsoft hosted a “Science Commons Symposium” at their HQ in Redmond, WA. It was a great line up of speakers, and I was honored to be among them with an invitation to talk about PLoS ONE and our article-level metrics program.
Several people blogged about the meeting, and Brian Glanz provided an excellent [...]
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Reposted from a post made by Mark Patterson to the PLoS Blog.
Today we learned that by the end of this week PLoS ONE (in keeping with all other PLoS journals) will be indexed by the Web of Science – this is an important literature discovery tool that many people use and so we are pleased [...]
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December 20 is not only the anniversary of the first screening of Christmas classic, It’s a Wonderful Life (1946), and of the Louisiana Purchase (1803), but it’s also PLoS ONE’s third birthday: we launched on December 20, 2006, with our first 105 articles (plus the sandbox article). Why not help us celebrate by visiting the [...]
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A few weeks ago I had the chance to present the PLoS Article Level Metrics program to audiences at both Berkeley and UCSF (via a simulcast). The organisers allowed me to devote a full hour to our program, and as a result this is the most detailed presentation that we have made on ALMs to [...]
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On Friday last week I had the opportunity to present PLoS ONE (and, to some extent, PLoS) to a conference at UCSF called “Let’s Have an Awesome Time Doing Science”. The conference was an interesting blend of ‘regular’ conference and unconference, and from what I saw it worked out very well.
The powerpoint and synced audio [...]
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The inaugural meeting of the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA) was held in Lund University a couple of weeks ago. Audio, video and slides were recorded for all presentations and the entire conference is now freely available at the OASPA Web Site.
Of particular relevance to PLoS ONE is the presentation by Mark Patterson [...]
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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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Last week I had the opportunity to appear, with Jason Hoyt of Mendeley, in episode 14 of The Science Hour with Kirsten Sanford (Dr Kiki) and Leo Laporte (on Leo’s twit.tv site).
The discussion lasted about an hour and tackled various aspects of academic publishing in the internet era, open science, open access, how academics are [...]
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We asked Cameron Neylon, a Biological Scientist who is an Academic Editor on PLoS ONE, has published twice with us, runs the blog Science in the Open and works in the UK at the Science and Technology Facilities Council if he could find time to record a video of himself using some of the features [...]
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Re-posted from the PLoS blog, author Mark Patterson, Director of Publishing, PLoS.
In 2009, in this online world, how do most scientists and medics find the articles they need to read? The answer for the content published by PLoS (and no doubt by many other publishers) is via one of the now ubiquitous search engines, be [...]
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As you may be aware, PLoS ONE makes no determination as to the ‘degree of advance’ for any submission. Instead, we peer review submissions to decide whether they represent appropriately conducted, and appropriately reported, science and then (having decided that a submission is fit to join the scientific literature) we go ahead and publish it.
This [...]
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I recently presented a paper at the ElPub 2009 (Electronic Publishing 2009) conference . The title is “PLoS ONE: Background, Future Development, and Article-Level Metrics” and the paper (and powerpoint) are now available under an OA CCAL license from the ElPub website.
The paper goes into a lot of detail on the history and inner workings [...]
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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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