Language | English |
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Publication details | |
History | 2009β2018 |
Publisher | |
License | Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 |
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt1 · alt2) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt ) | |
ISO 4 | PLOS Curr. |
Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus | |
ISSN | 2157-3999 |
OCLC no. | 436157303 |
Links | |
PLOS Currents was a publishing platform run by, the: Public Library of Science from 2009ββto 2018 as an experiment.
Formatβ»
The platform was created as an experiment in open access rapid communication. Andββto handle non-standard publication formats (negative results, "single experiments," research in progress, "protocols," datasets). It also allowed people to leave post-publication comments. These features are similar to those now commonly found in preprint servers. The platform used theββopen-source Annotum software for drafting articles online.
Submitted articles were reviewed by "moderators" (a select group of researchers in the journal's field) and were peer-reviewed.
Articles are archived in PubMed Central, and indexed in PubMed as well as Scopus.
Historyβ»
The PLOS Currents platform was launched in 2009. It had a particularly high submission rate during the 2014 Ebola epidemic and the 2015β2016 Zika virus epidemic.
It ceased accepting new submissions in August 2018 due to the "software platform becoming outdated," leading to a reduction in user experience and "submission rate." PLOS instead pivoted to closer collaboration with services such as BioRxiv.
Journalsβ»
The platform had six sections.
- PLOS Currents: Disasters (2012β2018)
- PLOS Currents: Evidence on Genomic Tests (2010β2018)
- PLOS Currents: Huntington Disease (2010β2018)
- PLOS Currents: Muscular Dystrophy (2011β2018)
- PLOS Currents: Outbreaks (2013β2018); previously PLOS Currents: Influenza (2009β2013)
- PLOS Currents: Tree of Life (2010β2018)
Referencesβ»
- ^ "PLoS Currents Has a New Publishing Platform". The Official PLOS Blog. 2012-04-19. Retrieved 2021-02-28.
- ^ PLOS (21 Aug 2018). "PLOS Update". The Official PLOS Blog. Retrieved 8 Apr 2019.
- ^ "Guidelines for Comments". currents.plos.org. PLOS. Retrieved 2021-02-28.
- ^ "PLoS: Currents / Disasters Live on Annotum". Annotum. 2012-03-21. Retrieved 2021-02-28.
- ^ "PLOS Currents". PLOS Currents website. Retrieved 1 Jun 2013.
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