During the last week of April [2] and the first week of May [3], PLoS ONE [4] published over 100 papers, with another 57 following today. With such a great range of papers, covering topics from some very noisy bats and the eating habits of Paranthropus boisei, to endangered amphibians and substandard antimalarial drugs, it is perhaps unsurprising that PLoS ONE has recently been featured even more prominently in the news than usual.
The Nutcracker’s Eats – and More Recent PLoS ONE News Coverage [1]
Submitted by Rebecca Walton on Wed, 2008-05-14 11:33.
Raking It In [7]
Submitted by Rebecca Walton on Fri, 2008-04-04 11:11.
This week, we were delighted to discover that PLoS ONE [8] had appeared in the New York Times for the [9] sixth [10] week [11] in [12] a [13] row [14], with an article [15] and part of a podcast [16] on a paper by Iriki and colleagues who trained degus (a type of rodent) to manipulate a rake (“as smoothly and efficiently as croupiers in any Las Vegas casino,” according to the NYT), in their paper, Tool-Use Training in a Species of Rodent: The Emergence of an Optimal Motor Strategy and Functional Understanding [17].
A new Managing Editor for PLoS ONE [20]
Submitted by Mark Patterson on Fri, 2008-04-04 05:20.
Pete Binfield joined PLoS this week as the Managing Editor for PLoS ONE.
Guest Blog: Intriguing Realities of Coral Reef Degradation and the New Baselines for Conservation [23]
Submitted by Rebecca Walton on Tue, 2008-03-18 05:17.
The end of February saw the publication of a package of papers in PLoS ONE [24] and PLoS Biology [25] describing the findings of a Scripps Institution of Oceanography/UC San Diego research expedition to the remote Line Islands of the Central Pacific. The Academic Editor of the two PLoS ONE articles, Niyaz Ahmed [26], has posted comments on both [27] papers [28] but here is an extract from his commentary on one of the articles, Baselines and Degradation of Coral Reefs in the Northern Line Islands [29], and on the package as a whole.
Small People, Big Deal [32]
Submitted by Rebecca Walton on Mon, 2008-03-17 11:40.
A great example of a PLoS ONE [33] paper, which has benefited from the post-publication features of the TOPAZ publishing platform, is the article, Small-Bodied Humans from Palau, Micronesia [34], in which Lee Berger and colleagues describe the fossils of small-bodied humans found in two rock caves on the Micronesian island of Palau.
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