Great news from PLoS for Bloggers [A Blog Around The Clock]

Published: September 21, 2007, 12:40 pm

Yesterday, PLoS ONE moved to the newest version of the TOPAZ platform. Rich Cave explains all the improvements that this move entails, including the citation download for articles, but one new feature that should really be exciting to bloggers are Trackbacks. From now on, if you link to a PLoS ONE article in your post, that article will display a link back to your blog post (go to an article and look at the right side-bar, nested between the Discussions and Ratings). Thus, in addition to the conversation already going on in the commentary attached to the article itself, the readers will be able to access the responses from the blogosphere as well. And that should also bring additional traffic to the bloggers. I have been testing the feature over the past 24 hours or so, but I need your input in order to refine and improve the Trackbacks feature. First, for the time being, the link you use in your post has to be in the format of the full URL of the full text (i.e., not the

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