PLOS Currents was a publishing platform run by the Public Library of Science from 2009 to 2018 as an experiment.
| Language | English |
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| Publication details | |
| History | 2009–2018 |
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| License | Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 |
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| ISO 4 | PLOS Curr. |
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| ISSN | 2157-3999 |
| OCLC no. | 436157303 |
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Format
The platform was created as an experiment in open access rapid communication and to handle non-standard publication formats (negative results, single experiments, research in progress, protocols, datasets).[1][2] It also allowed people to leave post-publication comments.[3] These features are similar to those now commonly found in preprint servers. The platform used the open-source Annotum software for drafting articles online.[1][4]
Submitted articles were reviewed by "moderators" (a select group of researchers in the journal's field) and were peer-reviewed.
Articles are archived in PubMed Central, and indexed in PubMed as well as Scopus.[5]
History
The PLOS Currents platform was launched in 2009. It had a particularly high submission rate during the 2014 Ebola epidemic and the 2015–2016 Zika virus epidemic.[2]
It ceased accepting new submissions in August 2018 due to the software platform becoming outdated, leading to a reduction in user experience and submission rate.[2] PLOS instead pivoted to closer collaboration with services such as BioRxiv.[2]
Journals
The platform had six sections.[1]
- PLOS Currents: Disasters (2012–2018)
- PLOS Currents: Evidence on Genomic Tests (2010–2018)
- PLOS Currents: Huntington Disease (2010–2018)
- PLOS Currents: Muscular Dystrophy (2011–2018)
- PLOS Currents: Outbreaks (2013–2018); previously PLOS Currents: Influenza (2009–2013)
- PLOS Currents: Tree of Life (2010–2018)