Public Library of Science

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PLOS (for Public Library of Science) is a nonprofit open access scientific publishing project aimed at creating a library of open access journals and other scientific literature under an open content license. It launched its first journal, PLOS Biology, in October 2003 and publishes seven journals, all peer reviewed, as of April 2012.

Physical address:

1160 Battery Street Koshland Building East, Ste. 100

San Francisco, CA 9411

United States

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Homepage:

http://www.plos.org/

E-mail:

Phone:

+ 1 415.624.1200

Contact page:

http://www.plos.org/contact/

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Other information:

The journal platform that PLOS uses to publish research articles is Open Source (http://www.ambraproject.org/): Apache License, Version 2.0.

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Organisation Type:

Academia And Research

Legal entity:

not for profit organization

Year of foundation:

2003

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License:

Creative Commons: Attribution (CC BY)

Keywords:

scientific journal

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