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- Title
Launching PLoS Biology -- six months in the open.
- Authors
Twyman, Nick
- Abstract
The Public Library of Science (PLoS) was formed in 2000 as an advocacy organization to encourage publishers to deposit articles in the newly formed biomedical archive PubMed Central. Frustrated with its lack of success in this aim, the organization has since become an open access (OA) publisher. The article reviews the history of PLoS and how it came to become a publisher. It then considers some of the objections to OA publishing and how PLoS's publishing efforts are aimed at challenging those objections and demonstrating that OA is a viable and credible alternative to the existing subscription-based publishing model.
- Subjects
PUBLIC libraries; BIOLOGY; BIOLOGICAL libraries; SCIENTIFIC literature; PUBLISHING; INFORMATION services
- Publication
Serials, 2004, Vol 17, Issue 2, p127
- ISSN
0953-0460
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1629/17127