You might be interested in this Associated Press piece on the NYT website, on new web-based ‘open peer review’ journals . The article is apparently motivated by the imminent launch of PloS ONE. However, this blog and our colleagues at Free Association also get a brief mention at the very end of the piece, as “blog-like forums for researchers to post their thoughts on published articles.”

Well, to make it easier for y’all to post your thoughts, I have just fixed all the newly obsolete links to our October issue papers. Comment away…