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. 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.
A smoother path to open access for your authors
Institutional support for your authors eliminates the time researchers spend administering the payment workflow themselves. We work with our partners to ensure authors are aware of their publishing benefits.
Custom reports and publishing insights
Use our native tools to dig deeper into submissions, publications, funding and data sources for your authors. Plus, we partner with vendors like COUNTER and LibLynx to provide the same level of usage detail you’d find with a subscription publisher.
A reputation for editorial rigor
We place scientific rigor and ethics at the center of everything that we do. A global community of experts work with our authors pre-and post-publication to ensure that the research we publish is accurate and reliable. Understanding the unique needs of the communities that we serve means we can help you put your authors’ best foot forward.
Automatic funder compliance
We place scientific rigor and ethics at the center of everything that we do. A global community of experts work with our authors pre-and post-publication to ensure that the research we publish is accurate and reliable. Understanding the unique needs of the communities that we serve means we can help you put your authors’ best foot forward.
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. Our institutional models are structured to make our journals sustainable, and any surplus revenue goes toward furthering our open science mission.
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@plos.org.