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Open Access Week [1]

Submitted by Bora Zivkovic on Mon, 2009-10-19 11:34.

This week - 19th-23rd October 2009 - is the Open Access week around the world - fitting nicely with the 5th birthday of PLoS Medicine [2]. And when I say 'around the world' I really mean it. Just check out all the global events [3] happening this week.

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Interview with a PLoS ONE frequent author: Seyed Hasnain [5]

Submitted by Bora Zivkovic on Wed, 2009-03-11 09:50.

Professor Seyed Ehtesham Hasnain [6] is the Vice-Chancellor at the University of Hyderabad in India, and one of the most prolific authors [7] in PLoS ONE. Last week, I interviewed Dr. Hasnain over e-mail about his work and his experience with PLoS ONE:


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Academic Editor Interview - Adam Ratner [9]

Submitted by Bora Zivkovic on Thu, 2009-02-12 12:47.

Adam Ratner, MD [10] is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Microbiology at Columbia University. He is one of the first people to join the Editorial Board at PLoS ONE and is now our Section Editor for Infectious Diseases. We talked over Skype yesterday about medicine, Open Access, PLoS and the world of scientific publishing.

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Academic Editor Interview - Tom Tregenza [12]

Submitted by Bora Zivkovic on Tue, 2009-01-13 12:02.

Tom Tregenza [13] is a Royal Society Research Fellow at the Centre for Ecology & Conservation at the University of Exeter's Cornwall campus. He recently became the Section Editor for Evolution at PLoS ONE and in this capacity he has already handled 82 manuscripts. We talked over Skype last week about his science and about the world of scientific publishing.

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Einstein was smart, but Could He Play the Violin? - the winner of the synchroblogging contest [15]

Submitted by Bora Zivkovic on Sat, 2008-12-20 12:00.

Today is PLoS ONE's second anniversary and we're celebrating by announcing that the winner of the second PLoS synchroblogging competition [16] is SciCurious [17] of the Neurotopia 2.0 blog.

"This fluent post captures the essence of the research and accurately communicates it in a style that resonates with both the scientific and lay community" - Liz Allen, PLoS.

Here is the winning entry, cross posted in its entirety:


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