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Note: this post was written by Sara Rouhi, Director of Strategic Partnerships for PLOS, and was originally published on NISO’s Homepage. NISO recently hosted a two day seminar in Washington DC entitled “Open Access: the Role
This post is a request for comments on the preprint Data Repository Selection: Criteria That Matter via this online form on behalf of the authors of the preprint (full list available there). Background At PLOS
Today a group of editorial leaders from several publishers, including PLOS, have co-published an Editorial highlighting concerns about the “Strengthening Transparency in Regulatory Science” rule proposed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). This comes
Iain Hrynaszkiewicz, Publisher, Open Research, PLOS Note: the following perspective was published as part of Digital Science’s annual survey and report, The State of Open Data 2019 , to coincide with global celebrations around Open Access Week.
orcid.org/0000-0001-8771-7239We are pleased to share results from a pilot with 13 journals that tested the Materials Design Analysis Reporting (MDAR) checklist, a minimum standards reporting checklist for the life sciences. The MDAR framework, a minimum
This post was collaboratively written by PLOS staff (Ines Alvarez-Garcia, Phil Mills and Iratxe Puebla). Note: Come to our free interactive event on Monday, October 21 at the Cambridge Festival of Ideas 2019 for a
#PeerRevWk19 was full of fruitful conversations about quality from many organizations. We are grateful for being part of this engaged community. Below is a sampling of what we added to the conversations this week. On
Guest Authors: Dylan Roskams-Edris (Open Science Consultant and Invited Scholar with the Center for Genomics and Policy,), JB Poline (Associate Professor, Neurology and Neurosurgery, McGill University), and Nikola Stikov (Associate Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering,
At PLOS Computational Biology, one of our driving motivations is to provide services and support to our community of authors, editors, reviewers and readers. Transparency and reproducibility in peer review and reporting of results are
Last year, PLOS helped more than 2,300 articles receive media coverage in high-profile outlets including The New York Times, the BBC, National Geographic, Scientific American and The Washington Post. How do we do it? For
