[OWW-Discuss] Fwd: PLoS ONE Beta - now launched

[Jason Kelly]

PLoS One has launched - if you sign up soon for content alerts you can even
get a free t-shirt ;)

will be interesting to see how things play out with the annotation and
commenting on the papers.
jason

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From: PLoS ONE <bounces at mailman.plos.org>
Date: Dec 20, 2006 8:46 PM
Subject: PLoS ONE Beta - now launched
To: jasonk at mit.edu

   [image: PLoS ONE Beta - Publishing Science, accelerating research | Open
Access 2.0] <http://rd.plos.org/pone_0055_01>  The wait is over!

December 20, 2006

Dear Colleague,

*PLoS ONE beta <http://rd.plos.org/pone_0055_01>, *a new way of
communicating peer-reviewed science and medicine, * is now launched.*

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.

We want to speed up scientific progress and believe that scientific debate
is as important as the investigation itself. *PLoS ONE* 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.

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.

It is this union of continually evolving user tools provided by the Topaz
publishing platform <http://rd.plos.org/pone_0055_02> and extensive content
that will make *PLoS ONE* a success.
 Connect

* The first 100 people (first come, first served) to sign up for content
alerts <http://rd.plos.org/promo/0055.php> from this email will receive a
free t-shirt. *
[image: Get a Free T-Shirt when you Sign Up]<http://rd.plos.org/promo/0055.php>

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.

The first beta release of *PLoS ONE* 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.

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.

*To stay involved:*

   - Sign up for content alerts <http://rd.plos.org/promo/0055.php>
   First 100 people receive a *PLoS ONE* t-shirt (first come, first
   served).
   - Submit your work <http://rd.plos.org/pone_0055_03>
   Visit the *PLoS ONE *Journal Management System to upload your article.


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.

See you online.

Chris Surridge
Managing Editor
*PLoS ONE*


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