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Open-Access Computational Biology Journal Launches

Posted by timothy on from the information-wants-to-be-life dept.

FleaPlus writes "The Public Library of Science and International Society for Computational Biology have published the inaugural issue of PLoS Computational Biology, an open-access journal dedicated to studies which 'further our understanding of living systems at all scales through the application of computational methods.' All works published in the journal are to be released under a Creative Commons Attribution License. The founding editors have some comments on the launch."

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  1. Re:Well that is three by fennel1 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Don't get me wrong, I'm all for open-source journals, but frankly, I don't see why a scientist would publish in PLoS if they could get their paper accepted in Science or Nature.

    Although parent is completely right that page fees are a pain, they're not a problem if your lab has decent funding -- in fact, asking for funding to cover future page fees is often used (by my lab & others) to get funds from university administrators to address more immediate needs (i.e. gels, glassware, etc.)