PLoS is an extremely valuable resource for scientists and students in the fields of biology and medicine. The mission of PLoS is straightforward:
"The Public Library of Science (PLoS) is a nonprofit organization of scientists and physicians committed to making the world's scientific and medical literature a public resource.
Our goals are to:
- Open the doors to the world's library of scientific knowledge by giving any scientist, physician, patient, or student - anywhere in the world - unlimited access to the latest scientific research.
- Facilitate research, informed medical practice, and education by making it possible to freely search the full text of every published article to locate specific ideas, methods, experimental results, and observations.
- Enable scientists, librarians, publishers, and entrepreneurs to develop innovative ways to explore and use the world's treasury of scientific ideas and discoveries."
"PLoS users are free to read, copy, distribute, and enjoy the first-rate content without limits and at no charge. Crediting the author and original source is all that is required in return. This is the true beauty of open access." PLoS Journals provide an outstanding model for open access online publishing.
(I first learned of PLoS in Peter Suber's Open Access News.) _______JH
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