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Catriona MacCallum
Senior Editor, PLoS Biology
Consulting Editor, PLoS ONE
Committed to making the world’s
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The Public Library of Science
• Eight years old • The largest not-for-profit Open Access publisher• The publisher of 7 Open Access journals including
PLoS ONE• Based in San Francisco, and Cambridge UK• Self Sustaining since late 2010
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PLoS BiologyOctober, 2003
PLoS MedicineOctober, 2004
PLoS Community JournalsJune-September, 2005 October, 2007
PLoS ONEDecember,2006
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• Editorial criteria– Scientifically rigorous– Ethical– Properly reported– Conclusions supported by the data
• Editors and reviewers do not ask– How important is the work?– Which is the relevant audience?
• Everything that deserves to be published, will be published– Therefore the journal is not artificially limited in size
• Use online tools to sort and filter scholarly content after publication, not before
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“The Dirty War Index (DWI) method has been adapted for use in NATO military environments to monitor civilian, woman and child casualties. This version of the DWI is called a ‘Civilian Battle Damage Assessment Ratio’ (CBDAR). Since October 2009, the CBDAR methodology has been used by NATO forces in Southern Afghanistan in order to reduce the possibility of injuring Afghan civilians. The methodology has identified a number of military activities that historically lead to civilian mortality that has led to NATO changing procedures.”
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