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A Year of Open for Discovery

Every year, PLOS releases an Annual Update of milestones and highlights. We do this for more than just archival purposes of notable research; we do this to bring to light foundational work of the many teams that help make us ONE PLOS. PLOS is unique among other Open Access publishers in that the work of our teams serves authors and the greater community—we are active collaborators on advocacy and technology initiatives that increase access, discovery and use of the scientific literature. The Annual Update provides a centralized resource for those looking to understand more about who we are and what we do.

We hope readers will find work of interest to use, reuse and remix from one or more of the sections including:

  • Letter from the Chairman and Interim CEO
  • Research and Global Media Highlights
  • A Modern Technical Framework to Accelerate Innovation
  • Moving Beyond the Article to Expand Author Opportunities
  • Updated Policies and Practices to Address Reproducibility, Discovery and Author Recognition
  • Multifaceted Approach to Advance Open Data and Open Science

Readers will notice several changes from previous updates: a more concise report to enable easier browsing through the year’s achievements, more links to quickly access key research and a selection of news interviews to hear directly from PLOS authors. This year’s update also marks a shift to calendar year reporting to consolidate internal data-gathering activities, allowing us to focus more on getting important research out to the public as quickly as possible.

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2016 PLOS BY THE NUMBERS

While you’ll find all the details of the above infographic inside the 2016 PLOS Annual Update, we are full-steam ahead into 2017 as PLOS engaged with a record number of new Twitter followers in January (more than 7,000) who discovered and shared exciting research.

Today, we announce the open source release of Ambra™, our journal and collections publishing platform.

In providing Ambra to the community, we live up to our commitment to make software developed at PLOS available open source once we are confident of the code’s scalability. Assigning the open source MIT license to Ambra follows our 2014 MIT licensing of PLOS ALMs as Lagotto. Read “Ambra, the PLOS Journal Publishing Platform, is Open Again” by Patrick Polischuk, Senior Product Manager, Product Development, for a brief history of Ambra and details on this release.

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