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Publication Fees for PLoS Journals

To provide open access, PLoS journals use a business model in which our expenses — including those of peer review, of journal production, and of online hosting and archiving — are recovered in part by charging a publication fee to the authors or research sponsors for each article they publish. Authors who are affiliated with one of our Institutional Members are eligible for a discount on this fee.

We offer a complete or partial fee waiver for authors who do not have funds to cover publication fees. Editors and reviewers have no access to author payment information, and hence inability to pay will not influence the decision to publish a paper. Our 2007-2008 prices are as follows:

  • PLoS Biology US$2850
  • PLoS Medicine US$2850
  • PLoS Computational Biology US$2200
  • PLoS Genetics US$2200
  • PLoS Pathogens US$2200
  • PLoS ONE US$1300
  • PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases US$2200

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