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Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 22:52:02 -0400 (EDT)
From: David P. Dillard <jwne@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: NetGold <NetGold@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [NetGold] BIOLOGY: PERIODICALS: Public Library of Science (PLOS):   
Biology

BIOLOGY: PERIODICALS: Public Library of Science (PLOS): Biology
<http://www.plosbiology.org/plosonline/?request=index-html>

Why PLoS Became a Publisher
Patrick O. Brown , Michael B. Eisen , Harold E. Varmus
Published October 13, 2003
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0000036
Editorial
<http://www.plosbiology.org/plosonline/?request=
get-document&doi=10.1371/journal.pbio.0000036>

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"We founded the Public Library of Science three years ago to work toward
realizing these opportunities. We began as a grassroots organization of
scientists, advocating the establishment and growth of online public
libraries of science, such as the National Institutes of Health's PubMed
Central, to provide free and unrestricted access to the scientific
literature. Today, with the launch of PLoS Biology, we take on a new role
as publishers, to demonstrate that high-quality journals can flourish
without charging for access.

Open Access

PLoS Biology, and every PLoS journal to follow, will be an open-access
publicationeverything we publish will immediately be freely available to
anyone, anywhere, to download, print, distribute, read, and use without
charge or other restrictions, as long as proper attribution of authorship
is maintained. Our open-access journals will retain all of the qualities
we value in scientific journalshigh standards of quality and integrity,
rigorous and fair peer-review, expert editorial oversight, high
production standards, a distinctive identity, and independence. Although
most readers will be satisfied with the free and unrestricted use of the
online edition (including the right to print their own copies), a printed
edition of PLoS Biology will be made available, for the cost of printing
and distribution, to readers who prefer the convenience and browseability
of the traditional paper format. And the full contents of every issue
will immediately be placed in the National Library of Medicine's public
online archive, PubMed Central, guaranteeing their permanent preservation
and free accessibility.

Our aim is to catalyze a revolution in scientific publishing by providing
a compelling demonstration of the value and feasibility of open-access
publication. If we succeed, everyone who has access to a computer and an
Internet connection will be a keystroke away from our living treasury of
scientific and medical knowledge. This online public library of science
will form a valuable resource for science education, lead to more
informed healthcare decisions by doctors and patients, level the playing
field for scientists in smaller or less wealthy institutions, and ensure
that no one will be unable to read an important paper just because his or
her institution does not subscribe to a particular journal.

Open access will also enable scientists to begin transforming the
scientific literature into something far more useful than the electronic
equivalent of millions of individual articles in rows of journals on
library shelves. The ability to search, in an instant, an entire
scientific library for particular terms or concepts, for methods, data,
and imagesand instantly retrieve the results is only the beginning.
Freeing the information in the scientific literature from the fixed
sequence of pages and the arbitrary boundaries drawn by journals or
publishers the electronic vestiges of paper publicationopens up myriad
new possibilities for navigating, integrating, mining, annotating, and
mapping connections in the high-dimensional space of scientific
knowledge."

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"The opposition of most established journals to open access has left it to
new journals like PLoS Biology and BioMed Central's Journal of Biology to
lead the way. These new journals face a double challenge. First, we are
introducing an unfamiliar modelopen-access publication. Second, any new
journal, even one with the stringent standards and the extraordinary
editorial team of PLoS Biology, must begin without the established brand
name of the older journals, which, like a designer logo, elevates the
perceived status of the articles that bear it. With all that is at stake
in the choice of a journal in which to publishcareer advancement, grant
support, attracting good students and fellowsscientists who believe in the
principle of open access and wish to support it are confronted with a
difficult dilemma."

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Volume 1 | Issue 1 | October 2003
Table of Contents
<http://www.plosbiology.org/plosonline/?request=get-toc>

Editorials

Message from the Founders
Why PLoS Became a Publisher
Patrick O. Brown, Michael B. Eisen, Harold E. Varmus
Full-text | Print PDF (76K) | Screen PDF (81K)

PLoS BiologyWe're Open
Philip Bernstein, Barbara Cohen, Catriona MacCallum, Hemai Parthasarathy,
Mark Patterson, Vivian Siegel
Full-text | Print PDF (86K) | Screen PDF (86K)

Synopses

Biological Clock Depends on Many Parts Working Together
Full-text | Print PDF (2824K) | Screen PDF (579K)

Large-Scale Association Study Confirms Genetic Complexity Underlying Type
2 Diabetes
Full-text | Print PDF (2824K) | Screen PDF (579K)

Functional Analysis of RSS Spacers
Full-text | Print PDF (2824K) | Screen PDF (579K)

Developmental Origins and Evolution of Buchnera Host Cells
Full-text | Print PDF (2824K) | Screen PDF (579K)

Monitoring Malaria: Genomic Activity of the Parasite in Human Blood Cells
Full-text | Print PDF (2824K) | Screen PDF (579K)

Supersensitive Worms Reveal New Gene Functions
Full-text | Print PDF (2824K) | Screen PDF (579K)

New Genomic Approach Predicts True Evolutionary History of Bacterial
Genomes
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Borneo Elephants: A High Priority for Conservation
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Mathematical Modeling Predicts How Proteins Affect Cellular Communication
Full-text | Print PDF (2824K) | Screen PDF (579K)

Essay

Neuroscience Networks
Thomas R. Insel, Nora D. Volkow, Ting-Kai Li, James F. Battey, Story C.
Landis
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Features

Digital Evolution
Bill O'Neill
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Genetically Modified Corn Environmental Benefits and Risks
Virginia Gewin
Full-text | Figures | Tables | Print PDF (1206K) | Screen PDF (370K)

Unsolved Mystery

What Controls Variation in Human Skin Color?
Gregory S. Barsh
Full-text | Figures | Print PDF (792K) | Screen PDF (381K)

Journal Club

Heterochromatin Dynamics
Tobias Straub
Full-text | Figures | Print PDF (217K) | Screen PDF (191K)

Primers

V(D)J Recombination and the Evolution of the Adaptive Immune System
Eleonora Market, F. Nina Papavasiliou
Full-text | Figures | Tables | Print PDF (380K) | Screen PDF (254K)

Microarray Analysis
Greg Gibson
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Community Page

Out of the Way
Glenn Otis Brown
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Research Articles

Drosophila Free-Running Rhythms Require Intercellular Communication
Ying Peng, Dan Stoleru, Joel D. Levine, Jeffrey C. Hall, Michael Rosbash
Full-text | Figures | Print PDF (10371K) | Screen PDF (470K)

Candidate Gene Association Study in Type 2 Diabetes Indicates a Role for
Genes Involved in -Cell Function as Well as Insulin Action
Ins Barroso, Jian'an Luan, Rita P. S. Middelberg, Anne-Helen Harding, Paul
W. Franks, Rupert W. Jakes, David Clayton, Alan J. Schafer, Stephen
O'Rahilly, Nicholas J. Wareham
Full-text | Figures | Tables | Print PDF (1207K) | Screen PDF (277K)

A Functional Analysis of the Spacer of V(D)J Recombination Signal
Sequences
Alfred Ian Lee, Sebastian D. Fugmann, Lindsay G. Cowell, Leon M. Ptaszek,
Garnett Kelsoe, David G. Schatz
Full-text | Figures | Print PDF (4440K) | Screen PDF (531K)

Developmental Origin and Evolution of Bacteriocytes in the AphidBuchnera
Symbiosis
Christian Braendle, Toru Miura, Ryan Bickel, Alexander W. Shingleton,
Srinivas Kambhampati, David L. Stern
Full-text | Figures | Print PDF (6891K) | Screen PDF (541K)

Genome-Wide RNAi of C. elegans Using the Hypersensitive rrf-3 Strain
Reveals Novel Gene Functions
Femke Simmer, Celine Moorman, Alexander M. van der Linden, Ewart Kuijk,
Peter V.E. van den Berghe, Ravi S. Kamath, Andrew G. Fraser, Julie
Ahringer, Ronald H. A. Plasterk
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The Transcriptome of the Intraerythrocytic Developmental Cycle of
Plasmodium falciparum
Zbynek Bozdech, Manuel Llins, Brian Lee Pulliam, Edith D. Wong, Jingchun
Zhu, Joseph L. DeRisi
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>From Gene Trees to Organismal Phylogeny in Prokaryotes:The Case of the
?-Proteobacteria
Emmanuelle Lerat, Vincent Daubin, Nancy A. Moran
Full-text | Figures | Tables | Print PDF (423K) | Screen PDF (221K)

DNA Analysis Indicates That Asian Elephants Are Native to Borneo and Are
Therefore a High Priority for Conservation
Prithiviraj Fernando, T. N. C. Vidya, John Payne, Michael Stuewe, Geoffrey
Davison, Raymond J. Alfred, Patrick Andau, Edwin Bosi, Annelisa Kilbourn,
Don J. Melnick
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The Roles of APC and Axin Derived from Experimental and Theoretical
Analysis of the Wnt Pathway
Ethan Lee, Adrian Salic, Roland Krger, Reinhart Heinrich, Marc W.
Kirschner
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Sincerely,
David Dillard
Temple University
(215) 204 - 4584
jwne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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