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Public Library of Science. This project, sometimes termed PLoS, is a nonprofit open-access scientific publishing project aimed at creating a library of open access journals and other scientific literature under an open content license. By 2012, it publishes seven peer reviewed journals. It makes scientific papers immediately available online without charges for access or restrictions on passing them along, provided that the authors and sources are properly cited with the Creative Commons Attribution License. According to one report, the PLoS has gained "pretty wide acceptance" although many researchers in biomedicine still hope to be published in established journals such as Nature, Cell, and Science, according to one report. PLoS publishes 600 articles a month in 2012.
arXiv, pronounced archive, is an online-accessible archive for electronic preprints of scientific papers in the fields of mathematics, physics, astronomy, computer science, quantitative biology, statistics, and quantitative finance.
Galaxy Zoo is an online astronomy project which invites members of the public to assist in the morphological classification of large numbers of galaxies. It has been termed a citizen science project. The information has led to a substantial increase in scientific papers, according to one account.
A website entitled Science 2.0 lets scientists share information. It has been cited by numerous publications, many of which have been written stories with links to Science 2.0 articles such as USA Today, CNN, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, and others. The Science 2.0 topics included neutrino interactions, cosmic rays, the human eye's evolution, the relation between sex and marital happiness for elderly couples, human evolution, hearing loss, and other topics.
OpenWetWare is a wiki site started by biologists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to foster open research, education, and discussion in the biological sciences and engineering.
Some examples of pioneering use of Science 2.0 to foster biodiversity surveys were popularized by Robert Dunn, including urban Arthropods and human body bacteria.
OpenWorm is a collaborative research project with several publications that aims to simulate the nervous system, body mechanics, and environment of the C. elegans worm.

== See also ==
Crowdsourcing
eScience

== References ==

== External links ==
Public Library of Science Archived 2012-09-20 at the Wayback Machine online open access journals
OpenWetWare link to OpenWetWare, a MIT-based biological information sharing wiki
Epernicus - social network for investigators looking for people and techniques to solve research problems
Journal of Visualized Experiments - peer-reviewed journal of videos demonstrating experiment protocols
Mozilla Science Lab - collaborative project to further science on the web
Proteome Commons - collaboration on proteomics
WikiSpecies - open directory of all species of life
Mendeley - academic software for research papers
Zotero - free and open source software for collection, organization, citing, and sharing research sources
SklogWiki - an open-edit encyclopedia dedicated to thermodynamics and statistical mechanics
Scientific Paper Discussion - forum site for public discussion of scientific papers, also protects unpublished scientific papers using cryptographic hash functions