PLos

The Public Library of Science (PLoS), founded in October 2000, is a non-profit organization of scientists and physicians committed to making the world's scientific and medical literature a freely available public resource. Immediate unrestricted access to scientific ideas, methods, results, and conclusions will speed the progress of science and medicine, and will more directly bring the benefits of research to the public. PLoS is working with scientists, their societies, funding agencies, and other publishers to pursue our broader goal of ensuring an open-access home for every published article and to develop tools to make the literature useful to scientists and the public.