PLoS ONE: scientific wiki?

Last class, we talked briefly about PLoS (Public Library of Science) as an open access publisher. PLoS also has a journal, PLoS ONE, that is a midpoint of sorts between a subject-specific open access journal and a true wiki. It's not editable, but anyone in any discipline can contribute as long as the science is sound.

Here is a link to the "About" page: http://www.plosone.org/static/information.action

Their mission states: "PLoS ONE will rigorously peer-review your submissions and publish all papers that are judged to be technically sound. Judgments about the importance of any particular paper are then made after publication by the readership (who are the most qualified to determine what is of interest to them)."

PLoS also has two more interesting initiatives: PLoS Currents (written/reviewed/published on Google Knol) and PLoS Hubs (aggregators of open access research).