SAN FRANCISCO —The Public Library of Science (PLOS) is pleased to announce a consortium agreement with Consorcio Colombia / Consortia facilitated by Accucoms, that allows joining member institutions ...

Correction: The original version of this article incorrectly stated that Dennis Ventry Jr. was the Vice Chair of the Academic Senate University Committee on Library and Scholarly Communication. In ...

Scientists will have more opportunities to publish open-access papers this summer, when the Public Library of Science adds three new journals to its offerings, the editors of the organization’s ...

Michael Eisen's goal is to change the way scientific findings are disseminated. Most research papers today are locked behind paywalls, and access can cost hundreds of dollars per article. The general ...

The Public Library of Science (PLOS) and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) today announced an expansion of their longstanding partnership to offer authors more options for rapidly and easily ...

Seven years ago, Michael Eisen, an assistant professor of genetics and development at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, proposed a program to link experimental data from his lab to relevant ...

Research papers submitted to Public Library of Science (PLOS) journals will now be automatically uploaded to the preprint server bioRxiv. By publishing papers on bioRxiv prior to peer review, ...

A few stories came out regarding public access scientific articles over the past week that provide a decent summary of where things stand. The first comes out of the Oxford Journals, a large ...

LOS ANGELES --Scientists frustrated by the iron grip that academic journals hold over their research can now pursue another path to fame by taking their research straight to the public online. Instead ...

Starting today, authors submitting their manuscript to most PLOS journals can also choose to post their article on bioRxiv, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory's preprint server for the life sciences. This ...