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One of the pioneers of open access is Michael Eisen, who helped found what has become the leading open access publisher , Public Library ...

To change the world, it is not enough to have revolutionary ideas: you also have the inner force to be able to realise them in the face of n...

The Public Library of Science did not invent open access, but there's no doubt it took it to the next level : On the 13th of October in...

Unless you're an academic, you probably don't care about " impact factors ", but for the world of academic journals - and ...

PLoS ONE celebrates its first anniversary: The initial success of PLoS ONE is something unprecedented in scientific publishing. It has been...

I thought I knew open access history pretty well, but to my shame I seem to overlooked Melissa Hagemann : Hagemann's strategic, behind-...

Now, why is it that I am not surprised by this result of a virtual recreation of the famous Milgram experiment ? The main conclusion of ou...

One door opens , another door closes: Nature has decided to bin its open peer review experiment: Despite the significant interest in the tr...

PLoS ONE, the new way of publishing scientific papers, has gone live . As well as fascinating papers on the Syntax and Meaning of Wild Gib...

...Access. Amazing , the Gates Foundation is giving to Public Library of Science (PLoS), to launch a new medical journal on neglected disea...

PLoS Medicine has put together a timely collection of some of its articles on HIV infection and AIDS. Nothing remarkable in that, you mi...

I've written approvingly of PLoS ONE before, and it's also good to see that the underlying software platform will be open source. ...

Michael Eisen , a co-founder of the wonderful Public Library of Science project - a series of journals that make all of their content freel...