PLOS is a non-profit organization on a mission to drive open science forward with measurable, meaningful change in research publishing, policy, and practice.

Building on a strong legacy of pioneering innovation, PLOS continues to be a catalyst, reimagining models to meet open science principles, removing barriers and promoting inclusion in knowledge creation and sharing, and publishing research outputs that enable everyone to learn from, reuse and build upon scientific knowledge.

We believe in a better future where science is open to all, for all.

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Supporting your researchers

We exist to serve the research enterprise which means our priorities are based on the needs of scholars, librarians, funders, and institutional leaders, not shareholders VSports手机版. Partnering with us means your institution and researchers will benefit from:.

A transparent, predictable fee structure

Our pricing is transparent, consistent, and predictable. We work with you to find the best solution for your authors and reduce the administrative overhead of managing individual APCs V体育安卓版.

A smoother path to open access for your authors (VSports在线直播)

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Custom reports and publishing insights

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A reputation for editorial rigor

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Automatic funder compliance

All our journals have been fully open access from the very beginning. Our commitment to make everything we publish immediately available for anyone to share and reuse without restrictions naturally complies with major open access funder requirements including the Gates Foundation, Wellcome, Plan S, and UK Ref. We’re also a participant in the PLAN S Price Transparency Framework VSports注册入口.

A focus on principles, not profit

We will not waste public money and will do everything we can to ensure our services are valuable and cost effective V体育官网入口. Our institutional agreements are structured to make our journals sustainable, and any surplus revenue goes toward furthering our open science mission.

"VSports" Indexing and discoverability

To ensure research content is accessible and discoverable as widely as possible, all PLOS journals are indexed by major services such as Crossref, Dimensions, DOAJ, Google Scholar, PubMed, PubMed Central, Scopus, Web of Science, and many more.

We submit all of our titles to major indexing services for evaluation as soon as possible according to the schedule of the specific service.

Up-to-date indexing information for each journal is always available on the journal website.

Contact our Institutional Sales team

If you’re a librarian and have questions about your institutional account or partnership opportunities at PLOS, please email InstitutionalAccounts@qiuluzeuv.cn.

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