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Open Access Publishing Support

A guide to OA publishing options

PLOS All-in Agreement

Indiana University corresponding authors are eligible to publish with no author fees (also known as Article Processing Charges or APCs) in seven PLOS journals from January 1, 2025 to December 31, 2025 under agreements negotiated by the Big Ten Academic Alliance with PLOS.  The covered journals are:

  1. PLOS ONE
  2. PLOS Complex Systems
  3. PLOS Computational Biology
  4. PLOS Digital Health
  5. PLOS Genetics
  6. PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases 
  7. PLOS Pathogens

 

Eligible dates & Expiry

The current agreements expire December 31, 2025.  Indiana University n corresponding authors with articles accepted in all  PLOS journals between January 1, 2025 and December 31, 2025 are eligible to benefit from this agreement. To qualify for no-cost OA publication, the article must be accepted between January 1, 2025 and 31 December 2025 and have a responsible corresponding author from Indiana University. 

The time from submission to acceptance varies from journal to journal, but for PLOS One, in 2024, it was 185 days. Please bear the expiry date of December 31, 2025 in mind when submitting your work.

 

Journal Access

PLOS is a fully open access publisher and all of its journals are freely available to the public to read.

 

Open Access Publishing Opportunities 

This agreement does not cover special issues or 'Collections'.

 Authors will retain copyright ownership of their work and all published content will be available under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license, meaning anyone is free to use and reuse the content provided the original source and authors are credited. The Creative Commons License Chooser can help you learn more about CC licenses.

PLOS currently only allows a CC-BY license to be selected. Please note that CC-BY is a very liberal license that allows wide re-use rights, including for commercial purposes, as long as the user gives attribution. Your article can be freely read by anyone, and also adapted, reused, included in anthologies, textbooks etc., including commercial publications. Publishers may also enrich your article by linking out to other related articles, even those you have not cited. Other than attribution, there are no additional restrictions.

 

What do I need to do to participate?

You must identify yourself as affiliated with Indiana University  and use your institutional email address as part of the publishing workflow. You must be the corresponding author for the article to be eligible.

 

What if I don't want to publish open access?

PLOS is a fully open access publisher and all articles are published open access.  If you do not wish to publish open access you should use another publisher.

 

Who can I contact if I have further questions?

You can contact the IU Bloomington Libraries Scholarly Communication folks at iusw@iu.edu. More Information about open access publishing and other forms of open scholarship is available IU Libraries webpage for Publishing & Copyright Support.