Public Library of Science: an alternative for dinosaurologists

["Nick Gardner" <ratites637@hotmail.com>]

> The Public Library of Science initiative, an international grass-roots
> organization of scientists, is launching its first open access journal.  
> PLoS
> Biology will compete head-to head with the leading existing publications in
> biology, publishing the best peer-reviewed original research articles, 
> timely
> essays, and other features. We will begin accepting papers on May 1st.
>
> By signing the PLoS open letter, you helped create this journal and the 
> other
> PLoS journals that will follow. Let's work together now to make these
> journals thrive.
>
> We need your help to ensure that every scientist in the world knows about 
> PLoS
> Biology. Please join our grass-roots network of PLoS Advocates to spread 
> the
> word abut PLoS at your institution, and encourage your friends and 
> colleagues
> at other institutions to do the same. Visit

http://www.plos.org/cgi-bin/advocates.pl?email= (type your email address 
here)

to
> sign up.
>
> As a first step, we have produced simple posters promoting PLoS and
> announcing the launch of PLoS Biology (available at
> http://www.plos.org/posters.html). We'd like to see these posters in every
> hallway, elevator, bulletin board and cafeteria of every university and
> research institution in the world, so please print them out and hang them
> wherever you can.
>
> Please also take the time to tell your friends, colleagues, and students
> about PLoS. Include an "I Support PLoS" slide in all of your talks and add 
> a
> PLoS banner to your website (these can be obtained at
> http://www.plos.org/support/stuff.html). If you hear about a great piece of
> research, tell us about it and encourage the authors to submit it to PLoS.
> And, of course, submit your best work to PLoS Biology!
>
> As always, we welcome your ideas and suggestions.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Harold E. Varmus
> Patrick O. Brown
> Michael Eisen
> Vivian Siegel
>
> for Public Library of Science (plos@plos.org)


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