OPEN ACCESS

We are very pleased that this paper has received the citations it has, in part because in a small way it validates the open access publishing model." — James C. Carrington and Zhixin Xie, whose paper in PLoS Biology was picked as a Thompson-ISI "Fast Breaking Paper" (December 2005)

Audio and Video Presentations on Open Access by PLoS Staff and PLoS Board Members

Audio Presentations

Gavin Yamey of PLoS, "Opening Up to Open Access: What Can Other Disciplines Learn from the Sciences?"

NetSquared: Podcast of Open Access and PLoS ONE

Listen to the NetSquared Podcast Interviews with Barbara Cohen, Executive Editor, and Richard Cave, IT Director for PLoS. Barbara and Richard describe the "open access" movement to publish scientific papers using the low cost platform of the web so that scientific information can be made accessible worldwide at a fraction of the price of current journal publishing. They discuss how PLoS continues to make headway and recently launched PLoS ONE, a transformative platform for science publishing with the breakthrough idea of "community involvement."

Harold E. Varmus, PLoS Co-founder and Chairman of the Board

Video Presentations

Gavin Yamey of PLoS, "Excluding the poor from accessing the biomedical literature: a rights violation that impedes global health"