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Who are PLoS?

• PLoS stands for Public Library of Science, http://www.plos.org

• An online publisher of peer-reviewed scientific and medical journals

• A mission driven non profit who want to make the world’s scientific and medical literature a freely public resource

What is PLoS ONE?

• Peer-reviewed online journal for all science and medicine

• Open-Access—everything freely available online to everyone everywhere

• Interactive—encourages community participation• Features Web 2.0 tools such as rating, commenting,

discussion, and corrections

Basic Facts About PLoS ONE• Launched in December 2006• Published over 5,000 articles (as of March ‘09)• Daily coverage in the quality press• Articles are published daily as soon as they are ready• 350,000 page views/month

Top downloaded papers from PLoS ONE

• Ionizing Radiation Changes the Electronic Properties of Melanin and Enhances the Growth of Melanized Fungi, Dadachova et al

• Structural Extremes in a Cretaceous Dinosaur, Sereno et al

• Resistance Exercise Reverses Aging in Human Skeletal Muscle, Melov et al

• Intense Sweetness Surpasses Cocaine Reward, Lenoir et al

• Satellite Tracking Reveals Long Distance Coastal Travel and Homing by Translocated Estuarine Crocodiles, Crocodylus porosus, Read et al

Source: Page Views, Google Analytics 12.20.06-5.12.08

Top 3 reasons why authors publish in PLoS ONE?

• Open-Access—freely available to anyone online• Peer-Reviewed—for technical soundness

and scientific merit• Fast—papers appear online quickly

The peer-review process

• Acceptance decisions made on technical merit rather than perceived importance

“In many respects PLoS ONE is the most interesting of the PLoS journals in that the role of the peer-reviewer has been focused on assessing the rigor and quality of the science being presented, thereby opening up the discussion of the author's interpretation of their data and their assessment of its significance in the field to the whole scientific community”.

Nigel Raine of Queen Mary School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, University of London and PLoS ONE author (The Adaptive Significance of Sensory Bias in a Foraging Context: Floral Colour Preferences in the Bumblebee Bombus terrestris)

How does it work?

• Extensive editorial board (almost 800 leading experts) who run the peer review and acceptance process for all submissions

• On average, all submissions are peer reviewed by 2.6 experts

• Community is encouraged to comment and to rate papers on ‘insight’, ‘style’, and ‘reliability’ after publication

Author experience

Recent survey respondents (2000+authors) rated their experience as:

• Quick (90%)• Hassle-free (90%)• Rigorous (91%)• Professional (95%)• Friendly & Transparent (95%)

Author experience

• 97.2% would publish with PLoS ONE again

“In more than two decades of publishing in peer-reviewed journals, this has been the stand-out experience for editorial communication, clarity and sensitivity. The experience was particularly welcome after the vicissitudes of this manuscript at the prior ‘top tier’ journal. I feel I have now had a genuine ‘top tier’ experience, in any meaningful sense of that phrase”.

Anna Rose Childress, Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and PLoS ONE author (Prelude to Passion: Limbic Activation by "Unseen" Drug and Sexual Cues).

How can you get involved?

• Submit your work to PLoS ONE• Register so that you can participate and get Email

Contents Alerts• Subscribe to RSS feeds in your discipline• Follow the PLoS ONE Blog (everyone.plos.org); the

PLoS Twiitter Feed (twitter.com/plos) and the plos.org Facebook page)

• Tell your colleagues to publish with PLoS ONE