The PLoS ONE 0.6 release candidate is now live. This release candidate features Browse by Subject, Browse by Publication Date and a bunch of user registration/login/profile updates/fixes. The features implemented and bugs fixed in RC 0.6 include:

• Browse by Subject [1]
• Browse by Publication Date [2]
• Full Safari support
• Fixes to IE display issues
• Cross section and cross paragraph annotations now work correctly
• A single email address for both login and email alerts
• Users can change their email address and password from their profile
• Resend email address verification
• Update to Dojo JavaScript library [3]
• Some minor changes to webpages...

Actually, the release candidate went live last week but I was at the 2007 Allen Press Emerging Trends in Scholarly Publishing Seminar [4]. The seminar featured some great speakers [5]. Jaron Lanier [6] gave a keynote about the current alpha-dog mentality in the blogosphere (which I think was prompted by the threats made against technologist Kathy Sierra [7] and even appears in blogs about pianos) and author pay models in scientific publishing. Josh Greenburg talked about the Zotero [8] FireFox extension which allows you to collect, manage, tag and cite your research sources (note to self - make this available for PLoS ONE). John Wilbanks of Science Commons [9] gave a talk on using data in scientific journals. And our own Chris Surridge [10] gave a presentation on open peer review.

I plan on updating the PLoS technology blog more often. I have a lot to post about - the next PLoS ONE release candidate, Topaz development, etc. Just seems like the week always goes by a bit too fast for me to join the blogging highway....