[Insight-developers] PLoS ONE : OPEN ACCESS 2.0

[Luis Ibanez]

While some are still debating whether to adopt Open Access or not,
others are moving forward to:


                     "Open Access 2.0"



Biologists are beating computer scientists with their own tools:


                   http://www.plosone.org/


"PLoS ONE will offer a new approach to the way that scientific research
is communicated. Like all revolutions, this will take time, and the
launch of PLoS ONE will only be the first step. New features and
functionalities will be continually added to PLoS ONE while existing
ones will be applied to an ever-increasing body of literature.

We cannot do this alone and want to invite all members of the scientific
community to help us shape the development of PLoS ONE and the future
direction of scholarly publishing."


"Encouraging discussion & debate community comment and annotation"

Anyone involved in science knows that published papers are not some form
of absolute truth but part of an ongoing discussion. Readers critically
evaluate a paper's strength and weaknesses, considering how it fits with
other related work and conventional wisdom. Think of the last lively
poster session you attended or the discussions that can follow a really
good talk. PLoS ONE will capture that energy and embrace the potential
of the Web for encouraging dialogue. PLoS ONE will empower the
scientific community to engage in a discussion on every paper and
provide readers with tools to annotate and comment on papers directly."



"Interactive papers reflecting the dynamism of research

A paper in a traditional journal is a static marker in an ongoing
process. Authors looking back on papers written 6 months or a year ago
will see things that they might now have written differently. New data
may have arisen to strengthen or alter some of the conclusions. We will
provide authors with ways to make those changes and so acknowledge the
evolution of their ideas. This doesn't alter the scientific record—the
original paper is still the original paper—but authors and readers can
build upon it."


"Rapid publication streamlined production

Communicating the results of research quickly and efficiently is a high
priority. PLoS ONE will couple efficient and objective peer review with
a streamlined electronic production workflow. We will strive to publish
papers within weeks of submission"


"High impact
open access means the work is more likely to be read and cited

Recent data shows that equivalent papers published in open-access
journals have an immediate citation impact advantage because there are
no barriers to using their content. This is just one of many reasons why
the whole publishing environment is steadily moving towards open access
- with over 150 major funders having now signed the Berlin Declaration
on open access."