Open Access Agreements and Memberships

Public Library of Science (PLoS) Overview

All CMU faculty, staff, and students who are corresponding “lead” authors on articles published in PLOS journals are able to publish them open access without paying an article processing fee (APC)

• All PLoS journals are eligible
• During the submission process, there are two sections where authors must correct identify their institutional affiliation to ensure they do not receive an Article Processing Charge invoice: “Additional Information” and “Manuscript Data”
• Authors can publish their articles with a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC-BY 4.0) license. 
• During the submission process, there are two sections where authors must correct identify their institutional affiliation to ensure they do not receive an Article Processing Charge invoice: “Additional Information” and “Manuscript Data”

*Articles in Open Access journals without a CMU corresponding author can still be made OA using the Libraries' APC fund to pay some of the OA publishing fees. See CMU’s APC webpage for more information and to apply for APC funds.

See full list of journals supported through CMU's Open Access publisher agreements and memberships.

Contact

If you are unsure whether your article or journal is covered under this CMU publisher agreements, or with other questions, please contact the University Libraries Data and Publishing Services team.