Getting closer to a fully correctable and connected research literature

PLoS Med. 2013;10(3):e1001408. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001408. Epub 2013 Mar 26.

Abstract

The PLOS Medicine Editors discuss the need for a dynamic publishing system that enables linkage to corrections of errors in scientific literature (whatever their source) and full integration of articles with post-publication commentary.

Publication types

  • Editorial

MeSH terms

  • Developing Countries
  • Ethics Committees
  • Periodicals as Topic
  • Publications* / ethics
  • Research*
  • Scientific Misconduct / ethics

Grants and funding

The authors are each paid a salary by the Public Library of Science, and they wrote this editorial during their salaried time.