What are the Public Library of Science Collections ? – Part II | SciELO in Perspective

"PLOS Collections1 is a specific section of the Public Library of Science (PLOS) initiative which hosts collections of articles which have been specially selected by editors working at PLOS, one of the leaders in the Open Access (OA) movement in academic publishing. Seven subject disciplines are represented in PLOS Collections and these includebiology, medicine, genetics and tropical diseases. However, we would particularly like to highlight at this time two important sub-collections for those that are interested in general in Open Access and in the possibilities that open up from an information science perspective. A previous post listed a number of salient documents relating to the topic Open Access Collection2. In this post we will highlight two other specialized areas –Text Mining3 and Altmetrics4. These two specialist areas, bolstered as they are by free access to full text, are those which will bring about remarkable improvements in information retrieval systems in the very near future –by the implementation of the semantic web –and will provide ways of measuring the importance and relevance of academic outpu tas alternatives to the famous – and much criticized–Impact Factor ..."