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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)

PLoS Institutional Membership

Public Library of Science Institutional Memberships serve two purposes:

  • They're a channel through which universities, funders of research, and other organizations support PLoS' work to make the world's scientific and medical literature a freely available public resource;
  • They're a mechanism by which institutions offer a tangible incentive-discounted fees-for their researchers to publish in PLoS' open-access journals.

PLoS Institutional Members pay an annual fee, at the level of their choosing, which entitles:

  • Affiliated scientists to reduced charges for publication in all PLoS journals-including our flagship journals, PLoS Biology and PLoS Medicine; and our community journals PLoS Computational Biology, PLoS Genetics, and PLoS Pathogens.
  • Libraries to institutional usage reports for all PLoS publications;
  • Member Institutions to a listing on the PLoS Web site Members page, along with a list of the articles published in PLoS journals by affiliated authors.

PLoS encourages consortial memberships, which are negotiated on a case-by-case basis. PLoS also encourages memberships from research funding agencies, on behalf of their investigators and grantees, and from other organizations that support our open access mission.

The Public Library of Science is a tax-exempt, 501(c)3, not-for-profit organization headquartered in San Francisco, California (Federal Tax ID 68-0492065). PLoS reserves the right to deny membership to any institution or consortium.

For More Information

For more information, please read the Institutional Membership background information (261K PDF).

Please contact Donna Okubo, PLoS Institutional Relations Manager, at +1 415.624.1213 or e-mail us.

A The discount on publication charges will be determined by the primary affiliation of the corresponding author. A corresponding author with equal affiliations to multiple institutions is entitled to the benefits of the higher tier Membership. Corresponding authors are asked to identify their primary institutional affiliation upon submitting a manuscript, and are immediately apprised of the discount to which their institution's Membership entitles them.