« (…) This new payment model for publications is part of a pilot project to explore how publication costs can be managed more efficiently and transparently while simultaneously giving a boost to Open Science. At the end of March, NWO and ZonMw signed an agreement with SURF to participate in the…
« L’éditeur PLOS a annoncé récemment le lancement d’un nouveau projet ambitieux visant à explorer de nouvelles solutions pour sortir d’un système basé essentiellement sur les articles et sur les APC (Article Processing Charges). D’une durée de 18 mois, le projet est financé par la Gordon and Betty…
PLOS recently introduced Open Science Indicators (OSIs), a large public dataset identifying and quantifying Open Science practices like preprint posting, data sharing and code sharing in PLOS articles, as well as a selection of comparator articles published elsewhere. Now, we are delighted to release another six months…
« Contributorship statements were introduced by scholarly journals in the late 1990s to provide more details on the specific contributions made by authors to research papers. After more than a decade of idiosyncratic taxonomies by journals, a partnership between medical journals and standards organizations has led to the establishment, in 2015,…
« PLOS has long supported Open Science. One of the ways in which we do so is via our stringent data availability policy established in 2014. Despite this policy, and more data sharing policies being introduced by other organizations, best practices for data sharing are adopted by a minority of researchers…
« One of the first megajournals, PLOS ONE, has played a significant role in changing scholarly communication and in particular peer review, by placing an emphasis on soundness, as opposed to novelty, in published research. Drawing on a study of peer review reports from PLOS ONE recently published as an
« Understanding the impact of research is of vital importance to science. The altmetrics movement is defined by its belief that research impact is best measured by diverse real time data about how a research artifact is being used and discussed. These metrics serve as “alternatives” to…
« Researchers are satisfied with their ability to share their own research data but may struggle with accessing other researchers’ data – according to PLOS research released as a preprint this week. Therefore, to increase data sharing in a findable and accessible way, PLOS will focus on better…
« (…) The Public Library of Science (PLOS) announced today it is using RightsLink® for Scientific Communications (RLSC) to manage its Community Action Publishing (CAP) model, which aims to eliminate author APCs in order to make its OA journals truly Open to Read and Open…
