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PLoS Launches Open Access Biology Journal

Posted by michael on from the if-it-squirms-it's-biology dept.

Vojtek writes "An international grass-roots organization of scientists is lauching an open access journal, PLoS Biology, that will compete with existing publications. See PLoS.org for details. Read their FAQ, download and post their Poster, support their cause!" We've done several previous stories about these guys - this one is pretty thorough.

3 of 17 comments (clear)

  1. great idea... by VendingMenace · · Score: 2, Insightful

    hopefully it will work out. There are so many hurdles to overcome. It has to gain popularity and now deal with all this censorship brewha that has come in teh sciences post 9/11.

    Personally, i think that open journals are the way to go. It just seem rediculous that people can't learn about stuff becuase the cost is porhibitively high, but i guess that really isn't anything new. Nevertheless, it sux, and hopefull this jounal will help end this.

    SWEEET!

  2. What the fuck? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Are people too cool to tell us what acronyms mean? How fucking hard it is to write Public Library of Science?

  3. PLOS only addresses free access by gacp · · Score: 1, Insightful

    PLOS only addresses free access. But it does not address the real hairy problem, the lack of peer-review in science and the abscence of free publication. PLOS still hangs on the obsolete idea that science must be censored to be good. Yes, censored, because there can be no re-view before publication, and because the decision is the editor's, not author's peer (most never find out!). What the scientific stablishment calls ``peer review'' is truly called censorship.



    PLOS is better than the parasitic `scientific' journals, but it's not good enough. Too little, too late.

    --
    ``L'imagination au povoir.''