Moving Science Towards Open Access
By Katie L. Burke, Katie-Leigh Virginia Corder
A discussion with biologist Michael Eisen on the history and future of PLOS and the open-access movement.
June 12, 2015
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Open-access research papers continue to be a debate in the world of scientific publishing. Public Library of Science (PLOS) forged the pathway for the open-access publishers and continues to be regarded as a role model for the movement's successes and challenges.
Biologist Michael Eisen, who is also one of the founders of PLOS, along with his postdoc mentor and cofounder Pat Brown, was motivated to pursue open-access publishing after discovering that the scientific community did not own their own literature.
Eisen discussed the history and future of PLOS and the open-access movement with Associate Editor, Katie L. Burke. Listen below:
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