PLOS Currents

PLOS Currents
LanguageEnglish
Publication details
History2009–2018
Publisher
LicenseCreative Commons Attribution 3.0
Standard abbreviations
ISO 4PLOS Curr.
Indexing
ISSN2157-3999
OCLC no.436157303
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PLOS Currents was a publishing platform run by the Public Library of Science from 2009 to 2018 as an experiment.

Format[edit]

The platform was created as an experiment in open access rapid communication and to handle non-standard publication formats (negative results, single experiments, research in progress, protocols, datasets).[1][2] It also allowed people to leave post-publication comments.[3] These features are similar to those now commonly found in preprint servers. The platform used the open-source Annotum software for drafting articles online.[1][4]

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.[5]

History[edit]

The PLOS Currents platform was launched in 2009. It had a particularly high submission rate during the 2014 Ebola epidemic and the 2015–2016 Zika virus epidemic.[2]

It ceased accepting new submissions in August 2018 due to the software platform becoming outdated, leading to a reduction in user experience and submission rate.[2] PLOS instead pivoted to closer collaboration with services such as BioRxiv.[2]

Journals[edit]

The platform had six sections.[1]

  • PLOS Currents: Disasters (2012–2018)
  • PLOS Currents: Evidence on Genomic Tests (2010–2018)
  • PLOS Currents: Huntington Disease (2010–2018)
  • PLOS Currents: Muscular Dystrophy (2011–2018)
  • PLOS Currents: Outbreaks (2013–2018); previously PLOS Currents: Influenza (2009–2013)
  • PLOS Currents: Tree of Life (2010–2018)

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c "PLoS Currents Has a New Publishing Platform". The Official PLOS Blog. 2012-04-19. Retrieved 2021-02-28.
  2. ^ a b c d PLOS (21 Aug 2018). "PLOS Update". The Official PLOS Blog. Retrieved 8 Apr 2019.
  3. ^ "Guidelines for Comments". currents.plos.org. PLOS. Retrieved 2021-02-28.
  4. ^ "PLoS: Currents / Disasters Live on Annotum". Annotum. 2012-03-21. Retrieved 2021-02-28.
  5. ^ "PLOS Currents". PLOS Currents website. Retrieved 1 Jun 2013.

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