Winning Independence: Scholarly Communication at Penn

PLoS, the Public Library of Science
PLoS is a nonprofit organization of scientists and physicians committed to making the world's scientific and medical literature a public resource.

PENN DISCOUNT: Your publication charges are discounted 50% because Penn is a sustaining member.
PLoS index of links to articles by Penn authors.
PLoS Journals: In 2003, PLoS launched a nonprofit scientific and medical publishing venture that provides scientists and physicians with high-quality, high-profile journals in which to publish their most important work, while making the full contents freely available for anyone to read, distribute, or use for their own research. The PLoS journals are PLoS Biology, PLoS Medicine, PLoS Computational Biology, PLoS Genetics, and PLoS Pathogens (launched in September 2005). PLoS Clinical Trials will be online early in 2006.

PNAS, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
PNAS will publish approximately 20,000 pages of research in 2006.

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Authors may elect to pay $1,000 (discounted to $750 for Penn authors) for Open Access publication, meaning that their article will be freely available on the PNAS and PubMed Central web sites immediately upon publication.