title: Why PLoS became a publisher.
authors.forename: Patrick O
authors.initials: PO
authors.lastname: Brown
authors.forename: Michael B
authors.initials: MB
authors.lastname: Eisen
authors.forename: Harold E
authors.initials: HE
authors.lastname: Varmus
mesh_terms: D022126:Access to Information; D035843:Biomedical Research; D033181:Information Dissemination; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval; D020407:Internet; D010506:Periodicals as Topic; D011643:Publishing / Q000191:economics