Mark Patterson Named Managing Executive Editor of New Open Access Journal

"Mark N. Patterson, Ph.D., director of publishing at the Public Library of Science (PLoS), has been named managing executive editor of a new open-access research journal that the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Max Planck Society, and the Wellcome Trust are launching next year. Patterson joined PLoS in 2003 and played a key role in launching its flagship publication PLoS Biology. He also aided in development of other PLoS journals, including innovative projects, such as PLoS ONE and PLoS Currents. An outspoken advocate of open access publishing, Patterson worked for several years as an editor at the Nature Publishing Group before joining PLoS. He established PLoS’s European office in Cambridge, UK, and is a founder of the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association. He will report to Randy W. Schekman, Ph.D., editor-in-chief of the new journal...."