The Map of Knowledge is a visualization of the interconnectedness of various scientfic disciplines.  From the PloS ONE article:

Over the course of 2007 and 2008, we collected nearly 1 billion user interactions recorded by the scholarly web portals of some of the most significant publishers, aggregators and institutional consortia.

High-quality images of the map.

found via posts by William (Bill) Drew and Robert L. Balliot on the Web4Lib list

PLoS ONE, an open access publishing site created by the Public Library of Science (PLoS), has instituted a ratings system for articles published through them.

By asking readers to rate every article they read for insight, reliability, and style, they are hoping to provide another means by which to allow the best articles to be found by researchers.

found on Open Access News

PLoS ONE, created by the Public Library of Science, has launched.  Open Access takes a terrific step forward!

from Open Access News