Lee Hadden writes: \”Newsweek has an article about the formation of a new \”Public Library of
Science\” by Mary Carmichael, \”Science: Free—And in English! A Napster for
nerds is on the horizon.\” Newsweek, July 1, 2002, page 9. Here, at the PLoS,
articles from major science journals more than one year old will be posted
free on the Internet, and with some commentary to simplify the language used
in their scientific communication.
Read more about it at MSNBC
\”Of course, free content won’t matter to the public unless it’s
readable, so PLoS’s articles will run next to common-language commentaries.
For its part, Science is trying to keep things as simple as possible. “I get
complaints from very smart scientists who can’t understand all our papers,”
says editor Donald Kennedy. “We work like hell to reduce that.” Still,
Science has to be technical in certain fields—after all, science is. Which is
to say, download papers to your heart’s delight. Just bring a big dictionary.\”
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