Scientific Reports On Track To Become Largest Journal In The World
Higher Impact Factor, faster publication, and weaker data availability policies may be drawing authors away from PLOS ONE.
Higher Impact Factor, faster publication, and weaker data availability policies may be drawing authors away from PLOS ONE.
After several high surplus years, a relatively small 2016 deficit will not sink PLOS. However, the trend over the past five years does not look encouraging, and 2017 looks no better.
PLoS sees bulk, low-cost publishing as way to financial independence
A tour of four major “megajournals” and some of their neighbors finds a few common approaches and a few distinguishing features, but the entire category may need to be rethought given the lack of “mega” generally among the set.
When Nature goes head-to-head with PLoS, will non-profit society publishers take the hit?
Why would free content be differentially accessed across versions of it, and across publications? A dive into PLoS data leads to a potentially reassuring answer.
How a shrinking journals receives an artificial boost to its leading citation indicator.
An interview about open access, funding of science, publishable works, profit motives, and other topics of interest, with one of the more thoughtful advocates of OA publishing, Cameron Neylon.
A reprint of an essay from 2008, which attempts to describe the evolution of open access publishing, Written before the astounding success of PLoS ONE, it outlines the link between open access publishing and the still-persistent traditional model.
The open access megajournal is a proven success, but its future may lie in the hands of commercial entities.
PLOS has set a new policy, requiring authors to make all data behind their published results publicly available. This has been met with a great deal of controversy from the research community. Thoughts on why this policy and why now…
A look back at Joe Esposito’s 2008 essay on Open Access — what has come to pass and what has changed since then?
Is there (ever) a good time to overhaul a publishers’ production system? If you care about your journals’ Impact Factor, the answer is “yes.”
Why did such a small price increase arouse such a big reaction from open access advocates?
PLOS staff are unionizing. How its leadership responds is a test of its vision for inclusive publishing.