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Open access truly expands shared knowledge across scientific fields — it is the best path for accelerating multi-disciplinary breakthroughs in research." — Open Letter to the US Congress signed by 25 Nobel Prize winners (August 26, 2004)

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Here are some of the many ways in which you can help.

Individual Support

Contribute on-line to our challenge grant fundraising drive.

Join PLoS. Become a PLoS Member by donating on-line today.

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Institutional Support

Encourage your university or employer to become an Institutional Member or a PLoS Sponsor.

Promote PLoS and open access in your community by displaying PLoS posters and e-mail banners.

Contact PLoS to share your ideas and suggestions:
Donna Okubo, PLoS Institutional Relations Manager, at +1 415.624.1213 or e-mail us.

More About PLoS

Through the collective efforts of scientists, libraries, universities, funding agencies, and others, we can create a sustainable open access publishing system in which publishers are paid a fair price for the peer review, editing, and production services they provide and the complete contents of every journal are made freely available online from the moment of publication.

During this time of transition from traditional to open access publishing, we must develop creative ways to support the launch of new journals, the investment in new publishing technologies, and efforts to increase awareness of, and commitment to, open access.

PLoS has received generous support from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, the Sandler Family Supporting Foundation, the Irving A. Hansen Memorial Foundation, the Open Society Institute, the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, the Joint Information Systems Committee (UK), the Burroughs Wellcome Fund, the Ellison Medical Foundation, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, Genentech, and many other institutions and individuals.

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