Abstract
PLoS Biology at 5: The Future Is Open Access
Highlights
On the 13th of October in 2003, with the first issue of PLoS Biology, the Public Library of Science realized its transformation from a grassroots organization of scientists to a publisher
PLoS Biology is the flagship journal that gave PLoS its initial credibility as a publisher, paving the way for the successful launch of the flagship medical journal PLoS Medicine, four leading subject-specific journals (PLoS Computational Biology, PLoS Genetics, PLoS Pathogens and PLoS Neglected Tropical Disease), and its most radical, interdisciplinary peer-reviewed upstart, PLoS ONE [5]
There are more that 3,600 journals listed on the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), and the list is growing at a rate of more than two per day [10]
Summary
On the 13th of October in 2003, with the first issue of PLoS Biology, the Public Library of Science realized its transformation from a grassroots organization of scientists to a publisher. This glib statement belies the fact that it has taken the commitment and dedication of our editorial board, our newly appointed Academic Editor-inChief Jonathan Eisen, and the courage of our pioneering authors to contribute to a new journal with an unproven publishing model because they believed in making the scientific literature a freely available public resource.
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