Open Access Collection
In keeping with our primary mission of making the world’s scientific and medical literature a public resource, PLoS periodically publishes articles that explore the issues surrounding open access. Selected articles—collected from PLoS Biology, PLoS Medicine, PLoS Computational Biology, PLoS Pathogens, and PLoS ONE—are featured to highlight key issues relating to open access. New articles will be added to the collection as they are published at www.ploscollections.org/openaccess
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Message from the Founders Top
Why PLoS Became a Publisher
PLoS Biology:Published 13 Oct 2003 | info:doi/10.1371/journal.pbio.0000036
Editorials Top
Open Access to Research Is in the Public Interest
PLoS Biology:Published 13 Feb 2007 | info:doi/10.1371/journal.pbio.0050048
Next Stop, Don't Block the Doors: Opening Up Access to Clinical Trials Results
PLoS Hub for Clinical Trials, PLoS Medicine:Published 15 Jul 2008 | info:doi/10.1371/journal.pmed.0050160
Open Access: Taking Full Advantage of the Content
PLoS Computational Biology:Published 28 Mar 2008 | info:doi/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000037
On the Path to Global Open Access: A Few More Miles to Go
PLoS Medicine:Published 29 Mar 2011 | info:doi/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001014
Progress toward Public Access to Science
PLoS Biology:Published 08 Apr 2008 | info:doi/10.1371/journal.pbio.0060101
The Impact of Open Access upon Public Health
PLoS Medicine:Published 30 May 2006 | info:doi/10.1371/journal.pmed.0030252
When Is Open Access Not Open Access?
PLoS Biology:Published 16 Oct 2007 | info:doi/10.1371/journal.pbio.0050285
Who Pays for Open Access?
PLoS Biology:Published 13 Apr 2004 | info:doi/10.1371/journal.pbio.0020105
Whose Copy? Whose Rights?
PLoS Biology:Published 13 Jul 2004 | info:doi/10.1371/journal.pbio.0020228
Message from ISCB Top
ISCB Public Policy Statement on Open Access to Scientific and Technical Research Literature
PLoS Computational Biology:Published 24 Feb 2011 | info:doi/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002014
Essays Top
Towards Open and Equitable Access to Research and Knowledge for Development
PLoS Medicine:Published 29 Mar 2011 | info:doi/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001016
Could an Open-Source Clinical Trial Data-Management System Be What We Have All Been Looking For?
PLoS Hub for Clinical Trials, PLoS Medicine:Published 04 Mar 2008 | info:doi/10.1371/journal.pmed.0050006
Opinion Top
Open-Access Science: A Necessity for Global Public Health
PLoS Pathogens:Published 28 Oct 2005 | info:doi/10.1371/journal.ppat.0010021
Perspectives Top
Why Full Open Access Matters
PLoS Biology:Published 29 Nov 2011 | info:doi/10.1371/journal.pbio.1001210
University Public-Access Mandates Are Good for Science
PLoS Biology:Published 10 Nov 2009 | info:doi/10.1371/journal.pbio.1000237
Institutional Open Access Funds: Now Is the Time
PLoS Biology:Published 25 May 2010 | info:doi/10.1371/journal.pbio.1000375
Equity for Open-Access Journal Publishing
PLoS Biology:Published 04 Aug 2009 | info:doi/10.1371/journal.pbio.1000165
The Publisher's Pushback against NIH's Public Access and Scholarly Publishing Sustainability
PLoS Biology:Published 27 Jan 2009 | info:doi/10.1371/journal.pbio.1000030
Health in Action Top
Global Health Delivery 2.0: Using Open-Access Technologies for Transparency and Operations Research
PLoS Medicine:Published 01 Dec 2009 | info:doi/10.1371/journal.pmed.1000158
Review Top
Adventures in Semantic Publishing: Exemplar Semantic Enhancements of a Research Article
PLoS Computational Biology:Published 17 Apr 2009 | info:doi/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000361
Research Articles Top
Citation Advantage of Open Access Articles
PLoS Biology:Published 16 May 2006 | info:doi/10.1371/journal.pbio.0040157
Full Text and Figure Display Improves Bioscience Literature Search
PLoS ONE:Published 14 Apr 2010 | info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0009619
Open Access to the Scientific Journal Literature: Situation 2009
PLoS ONE:Published 23 Jun 2010 | info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0011273
Empirical Study of Data Sharing by Authors Publishing in PLoS Journals
PLoS ONE:Published 18 Sep 2009 | info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0007078
Systematic Characterizations of Text Similarity in Full Text Biomedical Publications
PLoS ONE:Published 15 Sep 2010 | info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0012704
Sharing Detailed Research Data Is Associated with Increased Citation Rate
PLoS ONE:Published 21 Mar 2007 | info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0000308
Self-Selected or Mandated, Open Access Increases Citation Impact for Higher Quality Research
PLoS ONE:Published 18 Oct 2010 | info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0013636