Hi everyone...
It seems that PLoS has started up a beta test of a community forum for
annotating and discussing peer-reviewed papers... as it is related to what
we're trying to do for genomes, I'm forwarding it to y'all (see below).
Andrew
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From: PLoS ONE <ne...@li...>
Date: Feb 12, 2007 12:40 PM
Subject: PLoS ONE beta now live!
To: and...@gm...
Dear Colleague,
PLoS ONE beta<http://lists.plos.org/lt.php?id=3DeklUBwtcVAUfUwAHSVADCQUCUQ%=
3D%3D>,
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 =96 we have launched 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://lists.plos.org/lt.php?id=3DeklUBwtcVAYfUwAHSVADC=
QUCUQ%3D%3D>and
extensive content that will make PLoS
ONE a success.
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.
Connect
The first 100 people (first come, first served) to sign
up<http://lists.plos.org/lt.php?id=3DeklUBwtcVAcfUwAHSVADCQUCUQ%3D%3D>for
content alerts from this email will receive a free t-shirt.
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.
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:
=95 Sign up for content
alerts<http://lists.plos.org/lt.php?id=3DeklUBwtcVAcfUwAHSVADCQUCUQ%3D%3D>
First 100 people receive a PLoS ONE t-shirt (first come, first served)=
.
=95 Submit your
work<http://lists.plos.org/lt.php?id=3DeklUBwtcVAAfUwAHSVADCQUCUQ%3D%3D>
Visit the PLoS ONE Journal Management System to upload your article.
See you online.
Chris Surridge
Managing Editor
PLoS ONE
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