Open access to good science
www.plosbiology.org
The San Francisco-based nonprofit organisation Public Library of Science (PLoS) has gate-crashed into the exclusive world of scientific publishing, by coming out with an open access scientific journal, PLoS Biology. Its objective is free and unrestricted access to latest scientific knowledge to anyone interested in science.
A notable feature of the journal, whose first issue appeared on the web on October 13, is that authors pay a fee to cover the cost. The venture
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