PLoS ONE, a free online jour­nal pub­lished by open access pub­lisher Pub­lic Library of Sci­ence (PLoS), US, has announced the launch of every­ONE (http://everyone.plos.org), a new com­mu­nity blog for PLoS ONE authors and readers.

As of March 2009, PLoS ONE has pub­lished over 5,000 arti­cles, rep­re­sent­ing the work of over 30,000 authors and co-authors, and receives over 160,000 unique vis­i­tors per month. The blog is for authors who have pub­lished with the jour­nal as well as for those who haven’t.

The blog has been named every­ONE for three main rea­sons: PLoS ONE is for every rig­or­ous research arti­cle that passes the publisher’s our peer-review process; it is a forum for research in every sci­en­tific dis­ci­pline; and it is a source of infor­ma­tion for every inquis­i­tive reader with an inter­est in high-quality sci­en­tific research.

PLoS ONE is a peer-reviewed, open-access jour­nal for all sci­ence and med­i­cine. It fea­tures reports of orig­i­nal research from all dis­ci­plines within sci­ence and med­i­cine. By not exclud­ing papers on the basis of sub­ject area, PLoS ONE seeks to facil­i­tate the dis­cov­ery of the con­nec­tions between papers, whether within or between disciplines.”

Source:  Knowl­edge­s­peak Newslet­ter, 30 March