We are pleased to announce a new agreement with PLOS that allows current staff and students at ATU to make articles accepted for publication in eligible PLOS journals open access, without author-facing article processing charges (APCs).

Agreement period: 1 Jan 2025 – 31 Dec 2025

Publisher page: https://plos.org/resources/for-institutions/flat-fee-agreements/

Journals eligible for OA publishing:

  • PLOS Digital Health
  • PLOS ONE
  • PLOS Computational Biology
  • PLOS Pathogens
  • PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases
  • PLOS Genetics
  • PLOS Complex Systems

See the list of eligible journals in all of IReL’s open access agreements: http://bit.ly/irelOAjournals.

Eligible authors: 

  • The corresponding author must be a current staff member or student of a participating institution at the time the article is accepted for publication. The corresponding author must ensure their correct affiliation details are known to the publisher at this time. 
  • Requests to publish OA under the agreement are subject to approval by participating members. 

Eligible article types: all article types. 

OA publishing license: CC-BY.

For More information on all our agreements see: Open Access - Publishing: a Guide for Researchers