The Case for Open Preprints in Biology
Public preprint servers allow authors to make manuscripts publicly available before, or in parallel to, submitting...
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Open Access: A PLoS for Education
The next generation of life scientists are currently undergraduates—and the success of this generation depends upon...
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Introducing Open Highlights: Highlighting Open Access Research from PLOS and Beyond
When PLOS Biology was launched back in 2003, part of our remit was to broaden access...
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The Open Knowledge Foundation: Open Data Means Better Science
Data provides the evidence for the published body of scientific knowledge, which is the foundation for...
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Open Revolution
In 2001, Charles Vest, then President of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, announced that MIT would...
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When Is Open Access Not Open Access?
Since 2003, when PLoS Biology was launched, there has been a spectacular growth in “open-access” journals....
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Over the past few decades, advances in science and technology have produced a seemingly endless stream...
Read the Paper The Open Source Seed Licence: A novel approach to safeguarding access to plant germplasm
The laws to secure intellectual property rights on plant germplasm have been strongly developed in parallel...
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Low-cost (<€5), open-source, potential alternative to commercial spectrophotometers
Spectrophotometry is a fundamental technique in many areas of science, with many applications and uses. The...
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Freeing Crop Genetics through the Open Source Seed Initiative
For millennia, seeds have been freely available to use for farming and plant breeding without restriction....
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