Pete Binfield joined PLoS this week as the Managing Editor for PLoS ONE.
Pete Binfield joined PLoS this week as the Managing Editor for PLoS ONE.
PLoS Computational Biology [5], PLoS Genetics [6] and PLoS Pathogens [7] were launched in the Summer of 2005, and are now entering a new phase in their development. In a few days, they will join PLoS ONE [8] and PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases [9] on the Topaz publishing platform [10], and will benefit from more rapid publication along with tools for user interaction – commentary, notes [11] and ratings [12].
On January 11th, the NIH announced their new public access policy [15], which has now been strengthened to a mandate as required by the appropriations bill signed by President Bush in December [16].
On Dec 26th, 2007, President Bush signed the Bill that requires all NIH-funded research to be made available to the public.
These guest bloggers propose an authoring system for scientific papers inspired by the film industry.
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[5] http://compbiol.plosjournals.org
[6] http://genetics.plosjournals.org
[7] http://pathogens.plosjournals.org
[8] http://www.plosone.org/
[9] http://www.plosntds.org/
[10] http://www.topazproject.org/
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[14] http://www.plos.org/cms/cms/node/308
[15] http://publicaccess.nih.gov/
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[17] http://www.plos.org/cms/cms/openaccess
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[20] http://www.plos.org/cms/cms/openaccess
[21] http://www.plos.org/cms/cms/pub
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