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- PLoS Genetics Publishes Maize Genome Collection 2:50pm Nov 20
- The Maize Genome Collection in PLoS Genetics 1:34pm Nov 19
- Winner of OA Haiku Contest 10:23am Nov 19
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- Open Access Week
International - hold an event where...
Monday, October 19 at 9:00am - Drinks reception for PLoS Medi...
Cambridge, UK
Thursday, October 15 at 3:30pm - Open Access Day
PLoS San Francisco office
Tuesday, October 14 at 3:30pm - ISMB 2008
Canada
Saturday, July 19 at 2:30am - PLoS ONE Meet Up in SF, next T...
The Thirsty Bear Bar
Thursday, July 10 at 5:30pm
Today we're excited about the Maize Genome collection just published in PLoS Genetics. Now that so many eukaryotic genomes are available, it's easy to be blasé… just another few billion bases, grist for constructing gene trees. Why is this new information, so recently shared, worth considering? F...
Forgot to publish the winner of the OA Haiku contest, it was this entry from Miggie Pickton, University of Northampton, UK (congrats from PLoS): Set your research free As flowers offer nectar...
PLoS.org 100 researchers ask NIH to fund ethics research - our very own Ginny Barbour co-signed this letter to Francis Collins http://www.pharmedout.org/NIHLetter.pdf
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PLoS.org These Virology podcasts that feature PLoS Pathogens articles have some excellent titles (we appreciate a good sense of humor) and are very listenable. Check out our favorites: Nipah Virus in Ferrets http://tinyurl.com/nipahferrets and Muchachoo about nothing http://tinyurl.com/muchachoo
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Vincent, Dick, and Alan are joined by emergency medicine physician Dr. Joshua Stillman to talk about passive antibody therapy for Nipah infection in ferrets, annual influenza immunization of children, ...
PLoS.org OA goes Dutch - science foundation creates €5 million OA fund http://tinyurl.com/OAgoesdutch
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Right after international Open Access week and the launching of the Dutch Open Access website (www.openaccess.nl), a further milestone has been reached during the current Open Access Year coordinated by SURF. ...
Staff and editors of PLoS Pathogens and PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases are heading to the ASTMH Meeting this week (Nov. 18-22). Please consider attending the following PLoS journal-related activities and be sure to visit us at Booth 501 to pick up giveaways and meet the team...
PLoS.org Here's what folks are saying about the new PLoS store - "get your OA bling", "the Public Library of Shopping", "Incl the Hamster shirt!", "I def want one of these". Read more about our rigorously peer-reviewed merchandise http://tinyurl.com/plosstore
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My scientific specialty is chronobiology (circadian rhythms and photoperiodism), with additional interests in comparative physiology, animal behavior and evolution. I am not an MD so I cannot diagnose and treat your sleep problems. ...
Today, we're delighted to announce that the official PLoS Store is open for business - in time for the holidays. With a large range of t-shirts (including some designed specifically for the season of good-will) and other merchandise, you can let us solve your shopping nightmares...
PLoS.org Feed your PLoS t-shirt obsession - shop the new store in time for the holidays. http://www.zazzle.com/plos*
PLoS Pathogens is pleased to announce a new partnership with Dr. Vincent Racaniello, co-creator of the weekly podcast “This Week in Virology” (www.twiv.tv). Dr. Ra...
PLoS.org A billion people a day go hungry. With the World Food Summit meeting this week (attended by only one G8 leader, Berlusconi who is probably only taking part to avoid a court case in his own country), PLoS Medicine has written this blog post about the relevant issues and how just 0.1% of global GDP could help fix the problem http://tinyurl.com/billionhungry
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Penelope Enarson and colleagues describe the development, scale-up, and achievements of a national pneumonia program in Malawi, which is based on a successful anti-tuberculosis service delivery model.
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Learning to share - great blog post in Times Higher Education Supplement. Particularly liked this nice simple explanation of OA... "Open access is, simply, the idea that research articles should be
freely, immediately and permanently available online to anyone, rather
than locked away in subscription journals as many cur...rently are". To read more visit http://tinyurl.com/learningtoshare
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Free, immediate and permanently available research results for all - that's what the open-access campaigners want. Unsurprisingly, the subscription publishers disagree. Zoe Corbyn weighs up the ramifications for journals, while Matthew Reisz asks how books will fare
See MoreBelow is an extract from the letter which you can read in its entirety here http://tinyurl.com/nobelfrpaa "The open availability of federally funded research for broad public use in open online archives is a crucial building block in laying a strong national foundation to support accelerated...
