Open Access Week is a special commemoration for us as one of the original co-founders of the event, along with SPARC and Students for…
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Open Access week Community Over Commercialization: OA Week 2023Read more
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Open Access Open Science is better scienceRead more
At the heart of the Open Science movement is the conviction that Open Science is better science. More rigorous. More inclusive. More…
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Open Access Trends in preprint, data, and code sharing, 2019-2022Read more
Written by Lauren Cadwallader, Lindsay Morton, and Iain Hrynaszkiewicz PLOS recently introduced Open Science Indicators (OSIs), a large public dataset identifying and…
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OA policy PLOS and Plan S – We’ve got you covered!Read more
As a fully Open Access (OA) publisher since our founding, PLOS meets or exceeds all Plan S requirements and recommendations. In fact…
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Open Access For OA Week 2022, PLOS explores how Open Science can advance Climate JusticeRead more
This Open Access (OA) Week (October 21-24), we explore the theme “Open For Climate Justice.” The climate crisis is a topic of…
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Open Access OA Weeks past, but not forgottenRead more
Open Access (OA) Week is a time that’s dear to our hearts at PLOS. PLOS is a proud co-founder of OA Week…
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Open Access PLOS cheers the OSTP memorandum “Ensuring Free, Immediate, and Equitable Access to Federally Funded Research”Read more
We were thrilled last Thursday to read Dr. Alondra Nelson’s United States Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) memorandum on the…
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In the News PLOS and OA Switchboard Announce PartnershipRead more
Note: PLOS issued the following press release on July, 22, 2022. SAN FRANCISCO —The Public Library of Science (PLOS) and the OA…
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Open Access 5 Open Science practices that improve reproducibility & support trust in scienceRead more
Written by Lindsay Morton Demonstrating reproducibility shows integrity, inspires trust and respect, and encourages reuse. That means you’ll receive more attention for…
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Innovation Open Access Doesn’t Need APCs Part II: Making inclusion our foundation with Global EquityRead more
PLOS' new Global Equity publishing model supports Open Access publishing for all researchers in a regionally equitable way…
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Open Access PLOS response to the Wissenschaftsrat (German Science Council) statement on Open AccessRead more
At PLOS we warmly welcome the Jan 24, 2022 statement from the Wissenschaftsrat advocating that Open Access should become the default for scientific publications, but encourage further support of the…
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Open Access What a difference a data repository makes: Six ways depositing data maximizes the impact of your scienceRead more
Data is key to verification, replication, reuse, and enhanced understanding of research conclusions. When your data is in a repository—instead of an…