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www.plos.org
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Who are PLoS?

• PLoS stands for Public Library of Science,
  http//www.plos.org
• An online publisher of peer-reviewed scientific
  and medical journals
• A mission driven non profit who want to make the
  worlds scientific and medical literature a
  freely public resource

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Open Access Publishing Creative Commons
You are free to Share to copy, distribute and
transmit the work to Remix to adapt the work
Attribution You must attribute the work in the
manner specified by the author or licensor (but
not in any way that suggests that they endorse
you or your use of the work).
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Why is Open Access important?

• Open Access To Ideas.Whether you are a patient
  seeking health information, an educator wishing
  to enliven a lesson plan, or a researcher looking
  to formulate a hypothesis, making papers freely
  available online provides you with the most
  current peer-reviewed scientific information and
  discoveries.
• Open Access To The Broadest Audience.As a
  researcher, publishing in an open access journal
  allows anyone with an interest in your work to
  read it - and that translates into increased
  usage and impact.

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Summary of arguments for Open Access

• Authors
• access to the largest possible audience
• Readers
• access to the entire literature
• Reuse of articles
• download, copy, print, archive
• Full-text searching and mining
• beyond Boolean text searches

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The PLoS family Journals
PLoS Biology Impact factor 13.5
PLoS Medicine Impact factor 12.6
PLoS ONE Impact factor not available
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Who pays?

• PLoS Biology US2850
• PLoS Medicine US2850
• PLoS Computational Biology US2200
• PLoS Genetics US2200
• PLoS Pathogens US2200
• PLoS ONE US1300
• PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases US2200
• Institutional Memberships
• (e. g. Lund University)

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Speaking of pay to read them,

• did you know that

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science publishing is a 9 billion industry?
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science publishing is a 9 billion industry?
And that a few dominant corporations take profit
margins that often exceed thirty percent?
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Yet they archive papers in disparate,
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Yet they archive papers in disparate, expensive-to
-access,
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Yet they archive papers in disparate, expensive-to
-access, hard-to-search information spaces.
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What is PLoS ONE?

• Peer-reviewed online journal for all science and
  medicine
• Open-Accesseverything freely available online to
  everyone everywhere
• Interactiveencourages community participation
• Features Web 2.0 tools such as rating,
  commenting, discussion, and corrections

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Basic Facts About PLoS ONE

• Launched in December 2006
• Published over 2,000 articles (as of May 08)
• Almost daily coverage in the quality press
• Articles are published daily (from June 08)
• 350,000 page views/month
• Not yet any impact factor according to ISI

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Top 5 papers downloaded from PLoS ONE ever - page
views

• Ionizing Radiation Changes the Electronic
  Properties of Melanin and Enhances the Growth of
  Melanized Fungi, Dadachova et al
• Structural Extremes in a Cretaceous Dinosaur,
  Sereno et al
• Resistance Exercise Reverses Aging in Human
  Skeletal Muscle, Melov et al
• Intense Sweetness Surpasses Cocaine Reward,
  Lenoir et al
• Satellite Tracking Reveals Long Distance Coastal
  Travel and Homing by Translocated Estuarine
  Crocodiles, Crocodylus porosus, Read et al
• Source Google Analytics
  12.20.06-5.12.08

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Structural Extremes in a Cretaceous Dinosaur,
Sereno et al
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Small-bodied humans from Palau, Micronesia,
Berger et al
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Top 3 reasons why authors publish in PLoS ONE?

• Open-Accessfreely available to anyone online
• Peer-Reviewedfor technical soundness and
  scientific merit
• Fastpapers appear online quickly

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The peer-review process

• Acceptance decisions made on technical merit
  rather than perceived importance (impact)
• In many respects PLoS ONE is the most
  interesting of the PLoS journals in that the role
  of the peer-reviewer has been focused on
  assessing the rigor and quality of the science
  being presented, thereby opening up the
  discussion of the author's interpretation of
  their data and their assessment of its
  significance in the field to the whole scientific
  community.
• Nigel Raine of Queen Mary School of
  Biological and Chemical Sciences, University of
  London and PLoS ONE author (The Adaptive
  Significance of Sensory Bias in a Foraging
  Context Floral Colour Preferences in the
  Bumblebee Bombus terrestris)

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How does it work?

• Extensive editorial review board (nearly 500
  leading experts) with authority and knowledge to
  accept/reject manuscripts
• If they need extra advice, they ask for further
  opinions from independent referees
• Peer Review reports are openly available on the
  website upon publication (with permission) in
  the interests of enhanced transparency
• Community is encouraged to rate papers on
  insight, style, and reliability after
  publication

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Author experience

• Recent survey respondents (2000authors) rated
  their experience as
• Quick (90)
• Hassle-free (90)
• Rigorous (91)
• Professional (95)
• Friendly Transparent (95)

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Author experience

• 97.2 would publish with PLoS ONE again
• In more than two decades of publishing in
  peer-reviewed journals, this has been the
  stand-out experience for editorial communication,
  clarity and sensitivity. The experience was
  particularly welcome after the vicissitudes of
  this manuscript at the prior top tier journal.
  I feel I have now had a genuine top tier
  experience, in any meaningful sense of that
  phrase.
• Anna Rose Childress, Ph.D. University of
  Pennsylvania School of Medicine and PLoS ONE
  author (Prelude to Passion Limbic Activation by
  "Unseen" Drug and Sexual Cues).

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PLoS ONE on the bright side great success in the
bloggosphere and in media coverage
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PLoS ONE on the dark side Not (yet) included in
Web of Science (ISI) and therefore not yet any
Impact Factor (IF)
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How can you get involved?

• Submit your work to PLoS ONE
• Register so that you can participate and get
  Email Contents Alerts
• Subscribe to RSS feeds in your discipline
• Tell your colleagues to publish with PLoS ONE