Understanding science's closures
Rather than simply demanding more open science, we should remember closure is a quite normal part of science, and instead look in detail at what's closing, when, why and to whom?
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PLOS profits prompt revamp
Elizabeth Marincola, PLOS's chief executive, says that the future of science publishing is not in branded, highly selective titles. Instead, she sees a world in which article metrics and community judgements help the cream of research to rise to the top.
Preprints come to life
What are biologists so afraid of? Physicists, mathematicians and social scientists routinely post their research to preprint servers such as arXiv.org before publication, yet few life scientists follow suit. A website that goes live this week is hoping to change that.
Architecting the future of research communication
Building the Models and Analytics for an Open Access Future.
What can article-level metrics do for you?
In this essay, we describe why article-level metrics are an important extension of traditional citation-based journal metrics and provide a number of example from Article-level metrics data collected for PLOS Biology.
The open access movement grows up
It's been just over a decade since the concept of Open Access first captured the attention of the scientific and scholarly research community.
A lot can happen in a decade
This issue on Open Access marks the 10-year anniversary of PLOS Biology, and it's as good a time as any to pause and take stock of how the last decade.
I Do Not Want an Initiative, I Want Open Access
I am interested in copyright law, and especially interested in the inefficiencies and loopholes that have developed in a majority of creative industries as they have undergone the shift from analog to digital formats.
Six myths to put to rest
Open access to research is still held back by misunderstandings repeated by people who should know better, says Peter Suber.
A research accelerator
An open-source approach to the problem of producing an off-patent drug in enantiopure form serves as an example of how academic and industrial researchers can join forces to make new scientific discoveries that could have a huge impact on human health.
List of vanity publishers
List of potential, possible, or probable predatory scholarly open-access publishers.
Science, 'whores' and dissent
Privately owned publications threaten to cut to the bone of intellectual freedom in science, writes author.
Aktuelle Forschung bleibt hinter Paywall
Kurz vor der Wahl hat der Bundesrat ein Gesetz durchgewunken, das wissenschaftlichen Urhebern mehr Rechte einräumt. Weder Forscher noch Verlage sind zufrieden damit.
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