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S.M. Pujar
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IGIDR, Mumbai
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Date: Wed, 7 May 2003 16:42:45 -0700
From: Rebecca Kennison
Subject: Subscription information for PLoS Biology
Apologies for cross-posting. Please circulate widely.
The Public Library of Science (PLoS), a nonprofit organization of
scientists committed to making scientific and medical literature a
public resource, is pleased to announce that we have established a
nonprofit scientific publishing venture and that we will be publishing
our first open-access journal, PLoS Biology, in October 2003.
The PLoS journals will be governed and operated by scientists, and these
publications will retain all of the important features of scientific
journals, including rigorous peer review and high editorial and
production standards. The journals will employ a new publishing model
that will allow PLoS to make all published works immediately available
online, with no charges for access and no restrictions on subsequent
redistribution or use. PLoS has already assembled an outstanding
academic editorial board and a first-class professional editorial team.
We began accepting manuscript submissions for PLoS Biology on May 1,
2003.
As an open-access journal publisher, we will provide the online versions
of all our journals free of charge to anyone with Internet access, but
we also intend to offer a paper version for those who wish to pay for
that. Distribution of the paper copy will follow a traditional
subscription model, although the price for subscription will be as close
to cost for printing and mailing as possible. We have set the
subscription price for 2004 at $160/year, which includes shipping. This
is the subscription price for both the United States and the rest of the
world. The subscription comprises all 12 issues published in 2004 as
well as the three issues (October, November, and December) that will
appear in 2003.
If you would like a sample copy of PLoS Biology or if you wish to
subscribe to the print version of the journal, please either contact us
directly at subscriptions@plos.org to add your names to our database or
complete our subscription form, found at
http://www.plos.org/journals/biology/pbio_subscribe.pdf.
Additional information about the Public Library of Science, as well as
copies of the Call for Papers for PLoS Biology, may be found at our
website, www.plos.org http://www.plos.org/ .
