PLoS Currents is live (as of last week). Check out the blog posting by Harold Varmus:A new website for the rapid sharing of influenza research | Public Library of Science
I am very excited by this --- it seems to be a new step on Open Science.
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Yep, way to go! I am so excited about it too. I hope they start one for genomics/metagenomics soon.
ReplyDeleteI also think the PLoS submission process should be re-engineered. I feel it's more fit to the PLoS vision that all articles are submitted to one venue (PLoS-ALL) and then, after peer review, directed to the appropriate journal based on significance/impact. This will be better than having the submissions to the flagship PLoS journals redirected--without review--to another community journal or to PLoS ONE.
Woo hoo! We submitted some GenGIS stuff not half an hour ago.
ReplyDeleteIt's drawn quite an eclectic mix of paperlets from diverse people: epidemiologists, policy people, bioinformaticianicists, etc.
It's already been accepted! Yay!
ReplyDeletethanks for letting us know about this. It is a great idea.
ReplyDeleteI also like the idea of sending a single MS to PLOS-all but would there be the necessary breadth of editors to properly pre-review? this seems to be a problem even at specialized journals like Plant Cell.
Microbes - I agree that that vision is a good idea - but that is not necessarily what everyone wants to do. Some want to submit to just one plos journal. So perhaps there could be two tracks - journal specific and PLoS all -- will suggest
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