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PLoS Journals Sandbox: A Place to Learn and Play. Background On the eve of PLOS' tenth anniversary, we’re pleased to announce that the redesign of all PLOS journals is now live. The goals of the project were to: Improve reader ability to quickly assess the relevance and importance of an article through a figure browser and highly visible article-level metricsd. Improve navigation within the site and discoverability of content. This initiative offers users more effective ways to access and read content, updates the overall appearance of the sites and harmonizes them with our new PLOS look announced in 2012. Figures Citation: Baehr M, Burt S, Callaway J, Cave R, Chodacki J, et al. (2006) PLOS Journals Sandbox: A Place to Learn and Play. Academic Editor: Damian Pattinson, Public Library of Science, United States of America Received: December 20, 2006; Accepted: December 20, 2006; Published: December 20, 2006 Copyright: © .

Introduction New Technologies Figure 1. The PLOS development team at the release of Ginsu on December 18, 2012. Good Practice. Research Communications Strategy. Open Access, Publishers profit and the medical community. OpenEdition : three platforms for electronic resources in the humanities and social sciences: Revues.org, Hypotheses.org, Calenda. BioMed Central | The Open Access Publisher.

Publishers of OA books. The Launch of Europe PubMed Central. By Graham Steel November 1st 2012 sees the launch of yet another significant milestone for Open Access in the form of Europe PubMed Central (PMC). Please see this announcement on the Europe PMC blog. Details of Europe PMC were announced on July 13th 2012 by the European Research Council. This is a continuation of the transition of PubMed morphing from an Abstract only database of life sciences and biomedical research literature into a full text database.

PubMed itself launched in January 1996. February 2000 saw the launch of PubMed Central (PMC). “PMC is a free full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. This was then followed by UK PubMed Central (UKPMC) which went live in January 2007 followed by The Canadian member of the PubMed Central International network, PubMed Central Canada, which was launched in October 2009. “In June 1999….. "Sure enough," he (Varmus) adds, "the response from publishers was explosive. “NIH…Turning Discovery Into Health”