Open Access Publishing Agreements: PLOS
Agreement details
The open access publishing agreement with PLOS, a nonprofit Open Access publisher, allows current UCD staff and students to make articles accepted for publication in eligible PLOS journals open access, without the author paying an article processing charge (APC).
Agreement period: 1 Jan 2025 – 31 Dec 2025.
OA quota per year: unlimited.
What journals are included?
Journals eligible for OA publishing:
- PLOS Digital Health
- PLOS One
- PLOS Computational Biology
- PLOS Pathogens
- PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases
- PLOS Genetics
- PLOS Complex Systems
PLOS journals excluded from the agreement: PLOS Climate, PLOS Global Public Health, PLOS Water, PLOS Biology, PLOS Medicine, PLOS Sustainability and Transformation.
Instructions for authors
For your article submission to be included under the agreement, you must be the corresponding author and affiliated with UCD at the time the article is accepted for publication.
Authors should be careful to indicate their institutional affiliation when submitting their articles to ensure that the publisher’s editorial management system identifies them correctly as eligible for the OA publication charge waiver.
Authors must use a UCD email address, and not addresses from other domains.
Eligibility is based on article acceptance date.
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