The Public Library of Science (PLoS) has announced that its PLoS Currents has moved to a new publishing platform, Annotum, offering easier interaction to all users.
PLoS Currents is an innovative, online publication channel for new scientific research and ideas organised by focused research areas. It aims to minimise the delay between the generation and publication of new research, and publishes content which is peer-reviewed; citable; publicly archived in PubMed; and indexed by Scopus.
PLoS Currents removes barriers to communication and exchange through a single, integrated solution for writing and publishing; flexible article format for increased ease of submission; streamlined peer-review process that establishes the legitimacy of the work; and individual sections tailored to a specific research community.
For this redesign, PLoS Currents partnered with Solvitor LLC to implement Annotum. Carl Leubsdorf, Jr., founder of Solvitor LLC, describes Annotum as ‘an open-source, open-access, open-process authoring and publishing system based on WordPress.’
