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Dear Marmamers,
Have you ever been frustrated by the traditional
publication process? Have you ever wondered who your reviewers were? Have you
ever wished the review of your paper was opened to the wider scientific
community for comments and discussions? Welcome to Open Access 2.0!
The Public Library of Science has successfully
provided open access publishing to biologists for the past 3 years now
(PLoS Biology's impact factor is now 14.7; you can learn more about the
philosophy behind Open Access at http://www.plos.org/oa/index.html).
PLoS is launching a new journal, PLoS ONE, which is approaching
scientific publishing from a new angle. PLoS ONE is a system that will allow large numbers of papers
to be refereed and published with as few unnecessary barriers as possible.
Therefore, PLoS ONE has a very simple criterion for publication: PLoS
ONE will publish all reports of well-performed science that are submitted.
In addition, papers in PLoS ONE will need to conform to some basic
standards of scientific communication. For example they must describe
experimental methods in sufficient detail for them to be repeatable; their
conclusions must not be overstated; and these papers will need to be written in
intelligible English.Publications in PLoS ONE will not be an end in themselves but
rather the beginning of a conversation with the scientific community. A system
for post-publication annotation and comment will allow readers to engage in
discussions with authors and other users. This will act as a form of open peer
review, a concept that has been much talked about but which few journals have
put in place. We will
also apply many other features that publication in a web environment can supply.
Such things as user-defined tagging of articles to aid navigation through the
literature; a high degree of personalisation to allow readers to quickly and
efficiently discover the papers they want to read; and democratic systems for
rating individual papers.
The scope of PLoS ONE is
all encompassing: PLoS ONE features reports of primary research from
all disciplines within science and medicine. By not excluding papers on the
basis of subject area, PLoS ONE facilitates the discovery of the
connections between papers whether within or between disciplines.
If you are interested in
submitting papers to PLoS ONE, or want to learn more about PLoS
ONE, please visit http://www.plosone.org/
best wishes,
David
David Lusseau, PhD
Killam Postdoctoral Research Fellow Dalhousie University
Department of Biology 1355 Oxford Street Halifax, NS B3H 4J1 Tel: (902) 494 3723
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