Two New PLoS Journals Launched

Shipud writes "The Public Library of Science journal series is expanding. After PLoS biology and PLoS Medicine we are now getting a geek's favorite: PLoS Computational Biology. Another addition is PLoS Genetics. Both are published open-access under the creative commons license. A history of open access licence publications in science can be found here."

Comments

Re:Note on price

[Shipud]

As a grad student, for financial reasons I'd given up on the idea of publishing in open-access journals until I get my Ph.D and hopefully a position at a university that would pay the publication fees

I don't know what field you are Ph.D.-ing in, but in most science fields it is extremely rare that a grad student publishes anything on her own. Research takes place in a lab, and the principal investigator who runs the lab and is often the student's advisor is a co-author. The PI also springs for publication funds, which normally run upwards of 500$ in many high impact journals, regardless of copyright license. Oh, and that money comes out of the PIs research grant, universities normally only pay researcher's salary, lab space, and common equipment.

open access issue aside....

[bikerguy99]

the coolest thing about plos is that every table, figure and any other bit of info has its own URL and can be accessed or linked directly by the reader. In this regard, Plos represents a huge step forward compared to old school of scientific publication.