Public Library of Science Launches

limbicsystem writes "The first issue of the free journal Public Library of Science Biology hits the presses tonight. With Lawrence Lessig on the Board, the PLOS team are taking the Creative Commons to the world of science publishing and hope to compete with the big-name journals Science and Nature. The move towards freely-available scientific journals is supported by major funding bodies who are tired of seeing their grant money spent on subscriptions to commercial journals that can cost thousands of dollars a year. PLOS-Biology is available online at plos.org. The inagural issue has an essay by the executive director of the creative commons, Glen Otis Brown. Oh, and it's all running on Linux ;)"

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[Anonymous Coward]

Hehehe!

-DT

I like the sound of it.

[Sheetrock]

Ever since I began using the Internet, I invisioned its future as a massive online repository of information and media. It's nice to see that with projects like this, MIT OpenCourseware, and Project Gutenberg, some of the walls to information are beginning to crumble.

Knowledge is worthless if the right people don't have access to it. Who knows what sorts of inventions and discoveries we've missed out on because the person who could bring them to us lacked a critical element of the formula?

Anyway, it's good to see that science is starting to open up, hopefully with medicine to follow. There's another interesting resource I found, Origins, that has a great deal of scientific articles that may be of interest to people who are persuing that type of field, and no doubt a great deal more that will spring up now that the door has been opened to free scientific knowledge on the Internet.