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PLoS Biology in Action

2004; Public Library of Science; Volume: 2; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1371/journal.pbio.0020025

1545-7885

B. A. Cohen,

Photoreceptor and optogenetics research

In the first month after our launch, the PDF of the “monkey-robot” article by Miguel Nicolelis received tens of thousands of downloads. We are not sure who downloaded the paper because we do not ask people to register at our site. We suspect, however, that its popularity is in part due to the widespread media coverage of the article (from Time magazine to Al-Jazeera and Die Zeit), which demonstrates a thirst for the original scientific paper and makes a strong argument for open access. We were even more surprised by the popularity of the “issue PDF,” a whopping 72 MB file that contains the entire journal, cover to cover. The inaugural issue PDF was downloaded thousands of times within the first few weeks, even though we had printed 30,000 hard copies and distributed them widely.