Public Library of Science

Public Library of Science (PLOS) (in Spanish, Biblioteca Pública de Ciencias) is a non-profit project whose objective to create a library of scientific journals and other scientific literature under an open content license. Specifically, use the Creative Commons. It is headquartered in Levi's Plaza, in San Francisco, and has a European editorial office in Cambridge Great Britain.

The Public Library of Science began in early 2001 as an online petition by Patrick Brown, a biochemist at Stanford University and Michael Eisen, a computational biologist at the University of California, Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

In 2004 he won the Rave Award.

In 2012 it stopped using stylization in its name (PLoS) and began to write it only with capital letters (PLOS), to avoid difficulties in pronunciation and in writing the name of the organization.

Magazines published

Revistas de acceso libre

Publishes the following magazines: