Open Access Publishing Agreements: PLOS

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).

Eligibility is based on article acceptance date, so articles submitted before 1 Feb 2022, but accepted for publication after 1 Feb 2022, are eligible.

Agreement period: 1 Feb 2022 – 31 Dec 2024.

OA quota per year: unlimited.

UPDATE (6th December): IReL is currently in negotiations with the publisher for the new agreement from 2025. We are currently unable to confirm if there will be a new publishing agreement with PLOS from 2025.

Journals eligible for OA publishing:

• PLOS Digital Health
• PLOS One
• PLOS Computational Biology
• PLOS Pathogens
• PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases
• PLOS Genetics

PLOS journals excluded from the agreement: PLOS Climate, PLOS Global Public Health, PLOS Water, PLOS Biology, PLOS Medicine, PLOS Sustainability and Transformation.

For your article submission to be included under the agreement, you must be the corresponding author and affiliated with UCD.
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.

Information on IReL website.
Information on PLOS website
Author Guide to submission.