About PLOSPublic Library of SciencePLOS_cd9df02e-1be4-11e2-b737-b88cc7ccd5b7Public Library of Science (PLOS) is a nonprofit publisher, membership, and advocacy organization Peter JerramCEO - Peter’s publishing career began as head of documentation for the team that launched the first desktop computer version of Unix, now the basis for systems such as Linux and Apple’s OS X. Another of Peter’s groups used SGML, a forerunner of HTML and XML, to online publish large volumes of documentation in multiple systems and languages using a single source file. Peter has launched book-publishing enterprises for Silicon Valley software firms, has run the internet business for a Fortune 500 bank, and was an Internet strategist at PricewaterhouseCoopers, where he worked in healthcare (Blue Cross), higher education (Stanford University), and financial services (Barclay’s). He is the author of two books on business and technology.Cameron NeylonAdvocacy DirectorDonna OkuboSenior Manager of Community Outreach and Advocacy -
Donna Okubo brings more than 15 years of non-profit membership and fundraising management experience. Donna began her career at KQED television station in San Francisco where she assisted in the coordination of a $9 million Capital Campaign. She worked with the National Japanese American Citizens League (JACL), which is the oldest and largest Asian American civil rights organization with more than 24,000 members and 112 chapters. Donna also worked at the Tech Museum of Innovation where she increased their membership base by creating new benefits, incentives, and member events. She is very active in the Asian American community and serves as a program advisor for the San Mateo Library cultural diversity project, CSUMB Obata Mural Campaign, and Monterey JACL Historic Preservation program.Richard CaveDirector of IT and Computer Operations -
Richard oversees the I.T. Operations and Development teams at PLOS. When he joined PLOS in 2005, the I.T. department consisted of two web producers and a few decrepit servers. Fast forward to 2012 – the team now consists of almost twenty employees including developers, support technicians and system administrators. The I.T. Operations and Development teams oversee the internal infrastructure for the PLOS organization, the platform for the PLOS products and development of Ambra, an open source publishing platform. Richard also leads the Article-Level Metrics (ALM) initiative which provides a suite of metrics to measure the overall performance and reach of published research articles. A huge proponent of Open Source software, Richard was drawn to the passion surrounding Open Access advocacy at PLOS and the commitment to make scientific knowledge freely available to the public. He brings more than 20 years of I.T. management and development experience from working with start-ups, non-profits and established companies. Richard obtained a B.S. degree in Cognitive Science from U.C. San Diego, during which time he also developed a passion for surfing , and is currently pursuing an Executive MBA at San Francisco State University.PLOS Board of DirectorsGary WardPLOS Chairman of the Board; Professor of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics and Co-Director of the Vermont Center for Immunology and Infectious Diseases, University of Vermont -
Gary Ward received his PhD in 1985 from UC San Diego under the direction of Victor Vacquier and did his postdoctoral training at UC San Francisco with Marc Kirschner, studying cell cycle regulation. He was a Senior Staff Fellow at the NIH’s Laboratory of Parasitic Diseases from 1989 to 1996, where he worked on malaria with Lou Miller. Ward joined the faculty at the University of Vermont in 1996 and was named a Burroughs Wellcome New Investigator in Molecular Parasitology. He is currently Professor of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics and co-Director of the Vermont Center for Immunology and Infectious Disease. His lab studies the cellular and molecular biology of protozoan parasites. Ward was Treasurer and Member of the Executive Committee of the American Society for Cell Biology from 2002 to 2008 and a charter member of the PLOS Biology Editorial Board. He was a member of the National Library of Medicine (NLM) Public Access Working Group, has been Chair of NLM’s PubMed Central National Advisory Committee, and is currently a member of the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) Open Access working group.Patrick O. BrownPLOS Co-founder; Stanford University School of Medicine, Howard Hughes Medical Institute -
Patrick O. Brown was born in Washington, DC, in 1954, and grew up in Northern Virginia; Paris, France; and Taipei, Taiwan. In 1972, he entered the University of Chicago, finally emerging nearly a decade later with a BA, MD, and PhD. His thesis work, with Nick Cozzarelli, investigated the basic molecular mechanisms of DNA topoisomerases. Brown completed residency training in pediatrics in 1985, at Chicago’s Children’s Memorial Hospital. In a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of California, San Francisco, with J. Michael Bishop and Harold Varmus, he characterized the mechanism by which retroviruses such as HIV incorporate their genes into the genomes of their hosts. In 1988, he joined the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Stanford University School of Medicine, where he is currently a professor in the department of biochemistry. His current research activities include systematic studies of global gene expression programs and their regulation; the use of DNA microarrays and other “genomic” approaches to explore fundamental questions in cell biology, physiology, and development; and the development and application of new high-dimensional molecular profiling methods for detection and diagnosis of disease. Brown is married to Sue Klapholz, MD, PhD, with three children: Zach, Ariel, and Isaac.Michael B. EisenPLOS Co-founder; Assistant Professor of Genetics, Genomics and Development, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley -
Michael B. Eisen is a computational and evolutionary biologist at the University of California at Berkeley and the Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and an ardent advocate for the free flow of scientific methods, data, and knowledge. He received his undergraduate degree in mathematics (with extensive side studies in ecology and evolutionary biology) from Harvard College in 1989. He received a PhD in biophysics from Harvard University in 1996 for his doctoral research on influenza virus proteins structure and function. After a summer working as a play-by-play announcer for the Columbia Mules (a minor league baseball team in Columbia, Tennessee), he joined the laboratories of Patrick O. Brown and David Botstein at Stanford as a postdoctoral fellow. While at Stanford, Eisen developed methods and software for the analysis of data from genome-wide expression studies. In 2000, he moved to Berkeley, where he runs his own lab studying how regulatory information is encoded in genome sequences and the role that variation in regulatory sequences has played in evolution. He is a 2001 Pew Biomedical Scholar and received a 2004 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.Michael W. CarrollProfessor of Law and Director of the Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property at American University Washington College of Law -
Michael Carroll is a Professor of Law and Director of the Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property at American University Washington College of Law. His research and teaching specialties are intellectual property law and cyberlaw, focusing on the search for balance over time in the face of challenges posed by new technologies. He is a founding member of Creative Commons, Inc., a global organization that provides standardized legal and technical tools that enable legal sharing of cultural, educational, scientific and other copyrighted works.
Professor Carroll also is recognized as a leading advocate for open access over the Internet to the research that appears in scholarly and scientific journals. He has written white papers and has given numerous presentations to university faculty, administrators, and staff around the country on this issue. In addition, he serves on the National Research Council’s Board on Research Data and Information, is an Academic Fellow of the Center for Democracy and Technology and is a member of the Advisory Board to Public Knowledge.
Prior to entering law teaching, Professor Carroll practiced law at Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering in Washington, D.C. and served as a law clerk to Judge Judith W. Rogers, U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and to Judge Joyce Hens Green, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. He received his A.B. (Anthropology), with general honors, from the University of Chicago and his J.D., magna cum laude, from the Georgetown University Law Center.Robin Lovell-BadgeHead of the Division of Stem Cell Biology and Developmental Genetics, MRC National Institute for Medical Research, London -
Robin Lovell-Badge is a developmental biologist, geneticist and stem cell biologist at NIMR in London. He obtained his PhD in Embryology at University College London in 1978 under Martin Evans. After postdoctoral research in Cambridge and Paris, he established his independent laboratory in 1982 at the MRC Mammalian Development Unit, University College, London, directed by Anne McLaren. In 1988 he moved to the National Institute for Medical Research in Mill Hill, London, becoming Head of Division in 1993. He is also an honorary professor at University College London and a Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Hong Kong. He has had long-standing interests in the biology of stem cells, in how genes work in the context of development, and how decisions of cell fate are made. Major themes of his current work include sex determination, development of the nervous system, and the biology of stem cells within the early embryo, the CNS and the pituitary. He is also very active in both public engagement and policy work, notably around stem cells, genetics, human embryo and animal research, and in ways science is regulated, conducted and disseminated. Heather JosephExecutive Director of SPARC -
Heather Joseph serves as the Executive Director of the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC), an international coalition of academic and research libraries whose mission is to expand the global, cost-effective, digital dissemination of scholarly and scientific research results. As SPARC’s Director since 2005, she has focused on supporting emerging publishing models, enabling digital archives and establishing open access policies on the national and international levels.
Prior to joining SPARC, she spent 15 years as a publishing executive in both commercial and not-for-profit publishing organizations. She served as the publishing director at the American Society for Cell Biology, which became the first journal to commit its full content to the pioneering open access repository, PubMed Central. She also founded BioOne, a collaborative publishing organization designed to support non-profit publishers, and keep them operating independently from multinational commercial interests.
Ms. Joseph is the convener of the Alliance for Taxpayer Access, a national coalition that advocates for public access to the results of federally funded research. She is an active participant in projects and committees at U.S. federal science agencies, including the NIH, Department of Energy, and National Academies of Science. She is a frequent speaker and writer on scholarly communications in general, and on open access in particular. David LiddleVenture Partner, US Venture Partners -
David Liddle joined US Venture Partners in January 2000, after retiring as president and CEO of business incubator Interval Research Corporation. Prior to co-founding Interval with Paul Allen, David founded and served as CEO of Metaphor, which was acquired by IBM in 1991, where he became Vice President of Business Development for IBM Personal Systems. David’s extensive experience in research and development includes 10 years at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), from 1972 to 1982. He has been a director of Sybase, Broderbund Software, Borland International and Ticketmaster, and is currently on the board of the New York Times Company, and MaxLinear. His board involvement at USVP includes Electric Cloud, Instantis, Karmasphere, Klocwork, and Optichron. David has served on the DARPA Information Science and Technology Committee, and as chair of the NAS Computer Science and Telecommunications board. David earned a BS in Electrical Engineering at the University of Michigan and an MSEE, MSES, and PhD at the University of Toledo, where his dissertation focused on reconfigurable computing machines. His contributions to human-computer interaction design earned him the distinction of Senior Fellow at the Royal College of Art. He has served as a Consulting Professor of EE and also of CS at Stanford. He is on the boards of the Colleges of Engineering at Stanford University, UC Berkeley, the University of Michigan, and the University of Toledo, and once chaired the board of the Santa Fe Institute, an organization that promotes the sciences.Rosalind L. SmythDirector of The Institute of Child Health at University College London and Honorary Consultant Respiratory Paediatrician at Great Ormond Street Hospital -
Rosalind Smyth graduated in medicine from Clare College, Cambridge and University of London and trained in paediatrics in London, Cambridge and Liverpool. Until September 2012, she was Professor of Paediatric Medicine in Liverpool UK, where she was Director of the UK Medicines for Children Research Network, which supports all clinical research with children in England. Her current research interests include clinical studies of viral/host interactions in RSV bronchiolitis, clinical trials and systematic reviews of treatments for childhood respiratory disease. She is a member of the Commission on Human Medicine and chairs its Paediatric Expert Advisory Group. She is a Fellow and recent Council member of the Academy of Medical Sciences (UK).Marty TenenbaumChairman and Founder of CommerceNet -
Jay M. (“Marty”) Tenenbaum, Chairman and Founder of CommerceNet, is a world-renowned Internet commerce pioneer and visionary. He was founder and CEO of Enterprise Integration Technologies, the first company to conduct a commercial Internet transaction (1992), secure Web transaction (1993), and Internet auction (1993). In 1994, he founded CommerceNet to accelerate business use of the Internet. In 1997, he co-founded Veo Systems, the company that pioneered the use of XML for automating business-to-business transactions. Dr. Tenenbaum joined Commerce One in January 1999, when it acquired Veo Systems. As Chief Scientist, he was instrumental in shaping the company’s business and technology strategies for the Global Trading Web. Post Commerce One, he was an officer and director of Webify Solutions (sold to IBM in 2006) and Medstory (sold to Microsoft in 2007). He’s currently focused on transforming healthcare and accelerating therapy development through collaborative e-science. Earlier in his career, Dr. Tenenbaum was a prominent AI researcher, and led AI research groups at SRI International and Schlumberger Ltd. Dr. Tenenbaum is a Fellow and former board member of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence, and a former Consulting Professor of Computer Science at Stanford. He currently serves as a director of Efficient Finance and Patients Like Me, and is a Consulting Professor of Information Technology at Carnegie Mellon’s new West Coast campus. Dr. Tenenbaum holds BS and MS degrees in Electrical Engineering from MIT, and a PhD from Stanford.Beth WeilFormer Head librarian, Marian Koshland Bioscience and Natural Resources Library, University of California, Berkeley -
Beth Weil last position was the Head Librarian of the Marian Koshland Bioscience and Natural Resources Library at the University of California, Berkeley. She received her undergraduate degree in Zoology from the University of California, Davis in Zoology and her MLS from the University of California, Berkeley. She began her librarian career in the National Library of Medicine’s postgraduate Associate Fellowship program and continued to work at NLM for several years before moving to manage Stanford University’s Falconer Biology Library. In 1986 Beth moved to Berkeley, where she merged the collections of five life science libraries into a renovated space at the cutting edge of science libraries worldwide. Beth has served on several journal advisory boards and is a member of the National Academy of Sciences Library Advisory Board, on which she has served since 1998. In 2003 she was honored with the Librarian’s Association of the University of California, Berkeley Division Distinguished Librarian Award.PLOS International Advisory GroupPLOS aims to be truly international by removing unnecessary barriers to the immediate availability, access and use of its published research; and by engaging a geographically diverse group of researchers and medical practitioners in the editorial process. PLOS’ International Advisory Group is a group of eminent individuals from around the world whose aim is to ensure that we address issues that will encourage this global participation.Professor Rosalind L. Smyth (member of the PLOS Board)
Head of Division of Child Health,
School of Reproductive Health,
Alder Hey Children’s Hospital,
Liverpool
UKProfessor Patrick O. Brown (member of the PLOS Board)
HHMI Investigator,
Professor of Biochemistry,
Stanford University,
Stanford, California
USAProfessor James K. TumwineDepartment of Paediatrics and Child Health,
College of Health Sciences,
Makerere University,
UgandaDr. Niyaz AhmedAssociate Professor of Biotechnology,
School of Life Sciences,
Central University P.O.,
Gachibowli, Hyderabad,
IndiaDr. Ramy Karam AzizDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology,
Faculty of Pharmacy,
Cairo University,
EgyptProfessor Phillip A. R. HockeyPercey FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology,
University of Cape Town,
South AfricaProfessor Raghavendra GadagkarCentre for Ecological Sciences,
Indian Institute of Science,
Bangalore,
IndiaDr. Alejandro CraviotoExecutive Director,
International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research,
Dhaka,
BangladeshDr. Jaime MirandaAssociate Professor,
School of Medicine,
Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia,
Lima,
PeruProfessor Tazeen JafarDepartment of Nephrology,
Aga Khan Medical School,
Karachi,
PakistanProfessor Liping WeiDirector,
Center for Bioinformatics,
Peking University,
Beijing,
PR ChinaMs. Iryna KuchmaOpen Access Programme Manager,
EIFL,
Kiev,
UkraineProfessor Xiaolin ZhangExecutive Director,
National Science Library Chinese Academy of Sciences,
Beijing,
ChinaPLOS PartnersWe work with, are members of or partner with, the following organizations:Committee of Publication EthicsCouncil of Scientific EditorsDRYADInternational Society of Managing and Technical EditorsNational Association of Science WritersOpen Access Scholarly Publishing AssociationScholarly Publishing and Academic Resources CoalitionWorld Association of Medical EditorsAmerican Journal Experts, LLCAries Systems CorporationEditorial OfficeJ&J Editorial, LLCThe Charlesworth Group, Inc.Zyg Group, LLC_cd9dff92-1be4-11e2-b737-b88cc7ccd5b7To accelerate progress in science and medicine by leading a transformation in research communication._cd9e071c-1be4-11e2-b737-b88cc7ccd5b7Open AccessAll material published by Public Library of Science, whether submitted to or created by PLOS, is published under an open access license that allows unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.ExcellencePLOS strives to set the highest standards for excellence in everything we do: in content, style, and aesthetics of presentation; in editorial performance at every level; in transparency and accessibility to the scientific community and public; and in educational value.Scientific IntegrityPLOS is committed to a fair, rigorous editorial process. Scientific quality and importance are the sole considerations in publication decisions. The basis for decisions will be communicated to authors.BreadthAlthough pragmatic considerations require us to focus initially on publishing high-impact research in the life sciences, we intend to expand our scope as rapidly as practically possible, to provide a vehicle for publication of other valuable scientific or scholarly articles.CooperationPLOS welcomes and actively seeks opportunities to work cooperatively with any group (scientific/scholarly societies, physicians, patient advocacy groups, educational organizations) and any publisher who shares our commitment to open access and to making scientific information available for the good of science and the public.Financial FairnessAs a nonprofit organization, PLOS charges authors a fair price that reflects the actual cost of publication. However, the ability of authors to pay publication charges will never be a consideration in the decision whether to publish. See our Global Participation Initiative for more information.Community EngagementPLOS was founded as a grassroots organization and we are committed to remaining one, with the active participation of practicing scientists at every level. Every publishing decision has at its heart the needs of the constituencies we serve (scientists, physicians, educators, and the public).InternationalismPLOS aims to be international by removing barriers to the immediate availability, access, and use of its published research; and by engaging a geographically diverse group of researchers and medical practitioners.Science as a Public ResourceOur mission of building a public library of science includes not only providing unrestricted access to scientific research ideas and discoveries, but developing tools and materials to engage the interest and imagination of the public and helping nonscientists to understand and enjoy scientific discoveries and the scientific process.Access to ResearchProvide ways to overcome unnecessary barriers to immediate availability, access, and use of research
_cd9e091a-1be4-11e2-b737-b88cc7ccd5b71Open-Access PublishingLiberate research articles and advance scientific discovery as a pioneer of open-access (OA) publishing._cd9e0b18-1be4-11e2-b737-b88cc7ccd5b71.1PLOS as a Publisher -
In less than a decade, the Public Library of Science (PLOS) has helped to liberate tens of thousands of research articles and to advance scientific discovery as a pioneer of open-access (OA) publishing. Our journals have now established OA as an effective and sustainable way to share the latest and best research with everyone.Flagship JournalsPublish the PLOS Biology and PLOS Medicine journals._cd9e0d0c-1be4-11e2-b737-b88cc7ccd5b71.2The Flagship Journals -
Recognizing the need for prestigious publications to rival existing elite journals such as Science and Nature, PLOS entered the publishing arena in October 2003 with the launch of PLOS Biology, followed in October 2004 by PLOS Medicine. These two journals quickly established PLOS as a publisher of high-quality research and began to attract the attention -- and submissions -- of researchers throughout the world.Community JournalsPublish discipline-based community journals._cd9e0e7e-1be4-11e2-b737-b88cc7ccd5b71.3Bill & Melinda Gates FoundationThe Community Journals -
The next major step came in 2005, when PLOS launched three of its four discipline-based community journals -- PLOS Genetics, PLOS Pathogens, and PLOS Computational Biology. In 2007, with the generous support of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, PLOS launched PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases. These publications are typical of scholarly publishing as a whole and show how high-quality community-run OA journals can work. Support from academic leaders has rapidly catapulted these journals to the top of their respective fields.PLOS ONEPublish a journal for the whole of science._cd9e0fe6-1be4-11e2-b737-b88cc7ccd5b71.4The Journal for the Whole of Science -
While PLOS Biology, PLOS Medicine, and the PLOS community journals were enough to secure the organization’s position as a top-tier publisher, PLOS pushed the OA envelope yet again in 2006 with the debut of PLOS ONE. All research articles are evaluated through peer review and must be judged to be rigorous, ethical, and properly reported. After publication, the broader research community can use interactive tools, for example article-level metrics, to determine the importance, or impact, of each article. The PLOS ONE approach to publishing has the potential to make research communication much more rapid, open, and efficient, accelerating the pace of discovery.PLOS CurrentsSpeed up research by minimizing the delays to sharing information._cd9e11bc-1be4-11e2-b737-b88cc7ccd5b71.5Even More Rapid Communication -
Maintaining our commitment to speeding up research by minimizing the delays to sharing information, in 2009 we introduced PLOS Currents, which can make research available to the public in as little as 24 hours. PLOS Currents is an innovative publication that uses web-based tools for authoring and publication. The contributions are rapidly reviewed by experts, can be cited so that authors gain the necessary recognition for their work, and are publicly archived at PubMed Central. By accelerating the sharing of new findings in this way, PLOS Currents has the potential to accelerate the research cycle itself. You can watch this video to learn more.Research AssessmentImprove research assessment._cd9e1338-1be4-11e2-b737-b88cc7ccd5b71.6Improving Research Assessment -
PLOS believes that there is much to be gained from assessing research articles on their own merits rather than on the basis of the journal (and its impact factor) where the work happens to be published. Until recently, however, readers have simply not had suitable tools to give them any indication of the quality (or “impact”) of an individual article. All PLOS articles feature a suite of article-level metrics that includes measures of online usage; citations from the scholarly literature; social bookmarks; blog coverage; and the Comments, Notes, and “Star” ratings that have been made on the article. A reader can now scan the various metrics to determine the extent to which the article has been viewed, cited, covered in the media, and so forth.Blogs & Hubs_cd9e14c8-1be4-11e2-b737-b88cc7ccd5b71.7Blogs and Hubs -
The most recent innovations at PLOS were launched in Fall 2010. PLOS launched a new Blog network for discussing science and medicine in public, covering topics in research, culture, and publishing. The PLOS Blogs network is different from other blogging networks, because it includes a mix of science journalists (including a Pulitzer Prize winner) and researchers.
We also launched PLOS Hubs: Biodiversity to show how open-access literature can be reused and reorganized, filtered, and assessed to enable the exchange of research, opinion, and data between community members. This website aggregates content from a wide range of publishers, and expert Curators select the articles. Some of this content is then enriched with additional publicly available information, such as a taxonomy hierarchy, species images and descriptions, and interactive maps showing the origins of museum species.Blog NetworkMaintain a blog network for discussing science and medicine in public._cd9e16ee-1be4-11e2-b737-b88cc7ccd5b71.7.1PLOS HubsShow how open-access literature can be reused and reorganized, filtered, and assessed to enable the exchange of research, opinion, and data,_cd9e187e-1be4-11e2-b737-b88cc7ccd5b71.7.2Publishing ProcessPursue a publishing strategy that optimizes the openness, quality, and integrity of the publication process_cd9e1a86-1be4-11e2-b737-b88cc7ccd5b72_cd9e1c8e-1be4-11e2-b737-b88cc7ccd5b7Innovative ApproachesDevelop innovative approaches to the assessment, organization, and reuse of ideas and data_cd9e1e28-1be4-11e2-b737-b88cc7ccd5b73Beyond PublishingChange the information landscape._cd9e1fc2-1be4-11e2-b737-b88cc7ccd5b73.1PLOS as More Than a Publisher -
Although publishing excellent content remains at the heart of what we do, we recognize that there are many other ways to change the information landscape. That’s why we are so active in such a wide range of areas and seek collaborative relationships with others in relevant fields so that we can work together to reinvent the world of scholarly communication.
AdvocacyAdvocate open access._cd9e22f6-1be4-11e2-b737-b88cc7ccd5b73.1.1Open Access Advocate -
Today, open access (OA) has unstoppable momentum, thanks to the introduction of institutional policies that mandate OA on a local, national, and international level. Working in collaboration with a coalition of open-access advocacy organizations, PLOS takes an active role in supporting a number of initiatives. You can find out more about these by checking out the Advocacy section of this website.Membership ProgramsEnable institutions, libraries, and individuals to show support for OA and build important collaborative relationships_cd9e247c-1be4-11e2-b737-b88cc7ccd5b73.1.2Membership Programs -
The PLOS membership programs enable institutions, libraries, and individuals to show support for OA and build important collaborative relationships. PLOS thanks our institutional members and individual advocates for helping us in our efforts to create a sustainable, comprehensive system of open-access publishing.
For more information about the program, see the Institutional Membership page. You can also find out about other ways to support PLOS and the open access movement.Open-Source TechnologyUse open-source technology to improve the way publishing works._cd9e260c-1be4-11e2-b737-b88cc7ccd5b73.1.3Technology Developer -
PLOS is constantly pushing the boundaries by using open-source technology to improve the way publishing works. We’ve built a single open source publishing platform (called Ambra) for all our journals so that we and others can experiment with new approaches to the presentation and interactivity of content. Because our content is open access, talented developers are free to take part as well, such as those who build apps for PLOS content on the iPhone and iPad. We’ve also added article-level metrics to every PLOS article so that it’s possible to assess the impact of the content in new ways and we’ve introduced some of the most sophisticated search capabilities in scientific and medical publishing. In the summer of 2011, PLOS launched the Search and Article-Level Metrics APIs to encourage the creation of applications that will improve the way PLOS users discover and interact with our (and their) content.2012-10-21OwenAmburOwen.Ambur@verizon.net