PLoS Blogs

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First came PLoS, then PLoS ONE, now PLoS blogs

A blog? Here's their mission:

... to give an insider's view of the latest developments at PLoS. To keep it simple, we've divided the content into two tracks:

Publishing
Enter a discussion of our latest e-publishing initiatives.

Technology
Enter a debate surrounding our new open access 2.0 platform.

Here is an exerpt from one of the first entries:

This is the first post from me on the PLoS Blog. My name is Liz and you can check out my background here.

While preparing to launch this project, a curious thing happened. Before posting any adverts, before sending out a press release, and even before we started officially talking about PLoS ONE, a very observant scientist and blogger (who is also a PLoS Computational Biology author) sparked a conversation with a single post. We quietly watched as word spread. And we loved it.

Very interesting ...

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