PLoS One has launched - if you sign up soon for content alerts you can even get a free t-shirt ;)<br><br>will be interesting to see how things play out with the annotation and commenting on the papers.<br>jason<br><br>---------- Forwarded message ----------
<br><span class="gmail_quote">From: <b class="gmail_sendername">PLoS ONE</b> <<a href="mailto:bounces@mailman.plos.org">bounces@mailman.plos.org</a>><br>Date: Dec 20, 2006 8:46 PM<br>Subject: PLoS ONE Beta - now launched
<br>To: <a href="mailto:jasonk@mit.edu">jasonk@mit.edu</a><br><br></span>
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<h1>The wait is over!</h1>
<p>December 20, 2006</p>
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<p>Dear Colleague,</p>
<p><strong><a href="http://rd.plos.org/pone_0055_01" title="Visit PLoS ONE" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"><em>PLoS ONE <span>beta</span></em></a>, </strong>a new way of communicating peer-reviewed science and medicine,
<strong> is now launched.</strong> </p>
<p>Before your first visit, I want to let you know about the inherent challenges of this project and the philosophy that compels PLoS to confront them.</p>
<p>We want to speed up scientific progress and believe that scientific debate is as important as the investigation itself. <em>PLoS ONE</em> is a forum where research can be both shared and commented upon - we are launching it as a beta website so that the whole scientific community can help us develop the features.
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<p>What makes the site beta? Not the content, which features peer-reviewed research from hundreds of authors across a diverse range of scientific disciplines. It's the additional tools and functionality surrounding these papers that will be continually refined and developed in response to user feedback.
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<p>It is this union of continually evolving user tools provided by the <a href="http://rd.plos.org/pone_0055_02" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">Topaz publishing platform
</a> and extensive content that will make <em>PLoS ONE</em> a success. </p>
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<h1>Connect</h1>
<p><strong> The first 100 people (first come, first served) to <a href="http://rd.plos.org/promo/0055.php" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">sign up for content alerts
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<p>Signing up is a smart move because it allows you to both receive email content alerts tailored to your specific fields of interest and make use of the interactive tools, like annotation, as they become available.
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<p>The first beta release of <em>PLoS ONE</em> features tools that allow users to annotate articles and participate in discussion threads. Our goal is to spark lively discussion online and we'd like to invite you to participate. Future updates will include user ratings for both papers and the comments made about them, personalized content alerts and much more.
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<p>We will be watching with interest to see how our new platform and software responds to high volumes of traffic and encourage you to give your feedback on your first experience via the site itself.</p>
<p><strong>To stay involved:</strong></p>
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<li><a href="http://rd.plos.org/promo/0055.php" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">Sign up for content alerts</a><br> First 100 people receive a <em>PLoS ONE</em>
t-shirt (first come, first served).</li>
<li><a href="http://rd.plos.org/pone_0055_03" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">Submit your work</a><br> Visit the <em>PLoS ONE </em>Journal Management System to upload your article.
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<p>Thanks so much for your early support. It really has made the world of difference to know that you and more than 4,000 of your peers have been behind us from the start. </p>
<p>See you online.</p>
<p>Chris Surridge<br> Managing Editor<br> <em>PLoS ONE</em> </p>
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