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June 26, 2003 PLoS PICTURES ANNOUNCES PLoS SHORT MOVIE "WINGS" COMING TO A SCREEN NEAR YOU A special, highly anticipated screening opportunity has been arranged for you and all your VIP guests: WHERE? Your computer HOW? QuickTime and Windows Media at http://www.plos.org/video.html WHEN? Immediately The Public Library of Science is excited to announce our newest, public-oriented initiatives. This campaign aims to increase public awareness of the anachronistic scientific publishing system that denies citizens around the world access to publicly-supported research and to promote an alternative that will provide universal access and greatly accelerate scientific and medical progress. Specifically, PLoS has released a short video currently being broadcast in select television areas and available on the internet, and is announcing the introduction of new legislation that would increase access to the results of publicly-funded research. ABOUT "WINGS" PLoS VIDEO PLoS has created a 30-second television message called "Wings," which began airing Monday, June 23rd in strategic markets and will continue to air until Thursday, July 3rd (see highlights of schedule below). The video can also be viewed on the PLoS website (http://www.plos.org/video.html). Watch the PLoS video on our website and share the link with scientists and cinephiles alike. After all, like all of our content, this is an open-access presentation and we invite you to use and distribute it widely! The short piece humorously provides a glimpse to the scientific progress that could be made if research and discoveries were openly and freely shared. ABOUT OPEN-ACCESS LEGISLATION In addition, PLoS is eagerly awaiting new legislation that calls for open access to publicly-funded scientific research. Congressman Martin Sabo (MN) is introducing a bill in the U.S. House of Representatives that constitutes a critical first step towards making scientific and medical research results, substantially funded by taxpayer dollars, freely available to ALL PERSONS. This bill would dramatically increase the value of $50+ billion in American taxpayer money spent on scientific research each year. Press conferences are being held in the United States (San Francisco and Washington, D.C.) today, June 26th, to promote these two initiatives for the public. The press release can be viewed on the PLoS website (http://www.plos.org/news). We hope that the coordinated release of both public initiatives together will significantly forward the open-access campaign. Please spread the news to your colleagues across the world. If you have any questions regarding this campaign, please feel free to contact PLoS via email ([log in to unmask]) or phone (415-624-1200). Be riveted. Get a taste for what the open access future will be like. VIEW THE VIDEO NOW AT HTTP://WWW.PLOS.ORG/VIDEO.HTML. ------------------------ Further information about our own peer-reviewed open access journal: EVOLUTIONARY PSYCHOLOGY Evolutionary Psychology is an open-access peer-reviewed journal which aims to foster communication between experimental and theoretical work, on the one hand, and historical, conceptual and interdisciplinary writings across the whole range of the biological and human sciences, on the other. We also wish to encourage reflective and exploratory contributions and essay reviews on books which merit extensive treatment. Journal Homepage http://human-nature.com/ep/ Journal Editorial Board http://human-nature.com/ep/editorial.html About the Journal http://human-nature.com/ep/about.html Instructions for Authors http://human-nature.com/ep/author.html