PLoS Biology

Infobox Journal
title = PLoS Biology


discipline = Biology
language = English
abbreviation = "PLoS Biol."
website = http://www.plosbiology.org/
publisher = Public Library of Science
country = USA
ISSN = eISSN-1545-7885; ISSN-1544-9173
history = Publishing since October 13, 2003
openaccess = Yes
license = Creative Commons Attribution License

"PLoS Biology" is an American scientific journal covering the full spectrum of the biological sciences that began operation on October 13, 2003.

It was the first journal of the Public Library of Science (PLoS) a non-profit organization which releases scientific content under open access terms. All content in "PLoS Biology" is published under the Creative Commons "by-attribution" license, abbreviated "CCAL" [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/] . To fund the journal, the publication's business model requires that, in most cases, authors will pay publication costs.

In addition to research articles, PLoS Biology publishes online e-letters in which the readers provide their comments to the articles.

The impact factor of PLoS Biology for 2008, as calculated by the Institute for Scientific Information, was 14.1.

The current Academic Editor in Chief is Jonathan Eisen from U. C. Davis.

See also

* "PLoS Medicine"
* "PLoS Computational Biology"
* "PLoS Genetics"
* "PLoS Pathogens"
* "PLoS Clinical Trials"
* "PLoS ONE"

External links

* [http://www.plosbiology.org/ PLoS Biology]