PLoS ONE unveiled their new Prokaryotic Genome Collection today, along with an editorial by Section Editor Niyaz Ahmed. Well done, Niyaz! Everyone else: send us your best genome papers!
Showing posts with label open access. Show all posts
Showing posts with label open access. Show all posts
Tuesday, June 9, 2009
Thursday, April 16, 2009
Our new PLoS ONE paper is out!
Our new paper about detection and inhibition of vaginolysin, the human-specific toxin from Gardnerella vaginalis, came out on line today! [Link] Please check it out and rate/comment if you can!
Friday, March 20, 2009
Papers
I know that this has been widely publicized by Olivia Judson already, but Papers from mekentosj.com has changed my life. It is the most intuitive program I've encountered for organizing pdfs, searching PubMed and autoimporting, and letting me purge paper copies from my office. I've been importing manual and interlibrary loan scans of older papers as well. Amazing. It's $42 after the free trial and worth every penny.
Thursday, February 19, 2009
Top picks in infectious diseases at PLoS ONE
As a followup to the interview with Bora, I got to pick some of my favorite infectious diseases articles from PLoS ONE. http://www.plos.org/cms/node/444
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
PLoS ONE interview
An interview that I did with Bora at PLoS ONE is now available at the PLoS site. We talked about infectious diseases, open access, and social justice. I also got to use the term "tyranny of the Impact Factor," which was fun...
Thursday, September 18, 2008
NIH Open Access Mandate Under Attack
Here is a message from PLoS that was posted today. Legislation has been introduced that would effectively end the mandatory deposition of manuscripts reporting NIH-funded research into the freely available PubMed Central archive. Please contact your representatives and urge them to oppose this legislation and to preserve access to taxpayer-funded research. Thank you.
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Friday, August 15, 2008
For profit, closed-access publishing
An excellent post on for-profit publishers over at The Questionable Authority.
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
PLoS ONE
I recently became the Section Editor for Infectious Diseases at PLoS ONE. While I've been an academic editor there since pretty close to the beginning, I'm really excited to take on this new role. Infectious diseases is already one of the largest article categories at PLoS ONE, and as a medical and scientific field with truly global reach, it is one that can benefit most from the open access model of publishing. I'm still getting the feel of my new role, but soon I hope to start collecting advice from friends and colleagues to help me grow the profile of PLoS ONE as a place where people submit and publish the best infectious diseases research.
Tuesday, April 8, 2008
A good day for open access
The NIH public access mandate goes into effect today. Jonathan Eisen has a good post about this (and, more specifically, about the role of the Public Library of Science in making this happen) at The Tree of Life. Importantly, a growing number of journals are making compliance with the NIH mandate automatic, and those that have not yet will be under increasing pressure to do so as we go forward.
Saturday, April 5, 2008
JBC offers an open access option
In a welcome move, the Journal of Biological Chemistry has announced that in addition to their free-access papers in press feature, they will now allow authors to elect (for a fee) an "Author's Choice Publication Option." Essentially this allows authors to have their work immediately available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial license (not quite as open as the PLoS Journals, but certainly not bad). It appears in their instructions to authors that copyright is still transferred to ASBMB for all manuscripts, though.
I've published some of the work that I am most proud of in JBC, and it is great to see them making open access an option for authors.
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
NIH Public Access Policy -- Public Comments Needed
The following is an email that went out to the PLoS ONE Editorial Board today. Please do consider contacting NIH in support of the Public Access Policy and against the attempts to further delay its implementation. Thanks.
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Dear Editorial and Advisory Board Members,
Apologies for sending this email round to everyone as this policy mostly applies to people in the USA, especially people funded by the NIH. However, anyone is free to comment.
As I am sure many of you know, the US congress recently passed a bill to require public access to NIH funded research. A summary of developments is here http://www.plos.org/cms/node/308.
The deadline for the implementation of the NIH Public Access Policy (4/7/08) is fast approaching and some traditional publishers are trying to delay this important step.
The NIH seeks your input immediately.
To fully understand the scientific and taxpayer community perspective of this important initiative, the NIH urges you to add comments at this website http://publicaccess.nih.gov/comments/comments.htm
by Monday 3/17 5pm EDT.
Please comment in your own words – however, you may find the following ideas useful in framing a response.
The proposed NIH policy:
Positively contributes to the advancement of science
Serves the public health—by enabling discovery, speeding treatment, and cures
Provides a direct return for public investment in the NIH
Keeps the USA in step with other countries who have recently enacted similar polices
Democratizes teaching and learning—by providing new resources for scientists to use in new and innovative ways.
If you have questions about the policy and how it affects you, you should ask these questions on the website, but we’d encourage you to preface them with a statement of support (it would be a shame if such questions were misinterpreted as a lack of support for the policy).
These comments will be considered alongside verbal presentations at the Open Meeting on Public Access on 3/20 (you may also register here http://publicaccess.nih.gov/comments/registration.htm to attend this meeting by Monday 3/17 5pm EDT).
Thank you, in advance, for letting the NIH know that you and your community supports this policy.
Please do feel free to forward this message along to U.S. colleagues, friends, and family members, as this policy affects researchers, patients, and the taxpaying public.
Best wishes,
Mark
Mark Patterson
Director of Publishing
Public Library of Science
European Office:
7 Portugal Place
Cambridge
CB5 8AF, UK
t: +44 (0)1223 463331
e: mpatterson@plos.org
w: www.plos.org
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