Blogs

The new year is in full swing and we are continuing to add functionality to the articles that we publish. This time we're adding links, via Pubget, to the PDFs of citing articles (as recorded by Cross Ref).

When we launched the PLoS store back in November 2009, we promised to continually update it with new designs and merchandise. We've been true to our word. For the last couple of months, we've been creating our Spring range, so now you, your home, office or lab and the kids in your life can look cool and support the PLoS cause.

The holiday season may be in full swing but here at PLoS we're so busy stimulating debate over at the White House about public access to research and releasing new technology upgrades, that we don't have much time to do our shopping.

PLoS production and editorial staff are in close contact with our soon to be published authors around the world and they often get to know them quite well during the to and fro of correspondence. A scientist from Mexico, who has a book review article that has been accepted for publication and will shortly be published in PLoS Biology, told us what it is like to live and work there at the current time, and we thought that we would share that with you.

When I first joined PLoS in 2005, I was largely clueless about about blogging or the use of social media which was at the time a speck on the media horizon. That was until Richard Cave (our IT Director) suggested to me, with some insistence, that I would really benefit from attending the NTEN (Non Profit Technology) Conference in Seattle so that I could get educated about how to use these largely free tools to evangelize for PLoS ONE.