{"id":1096,"date":"2021-04-19T15:12:47","date_gmt":"2021-04-19T15:12:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/researchoffice\/?p=1096"},"modified":"2026-01-09T12:46:51","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T12:46:51","slug":"publish-without-charge-in-select-public-library-of-science-plos-journals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/researchoffice\/publish-without-charge-in-select-public-library-of-science-plos-journals\/","title":{"rendered":"Publish Without Charge in select Public Library of Science (PLOS) Journals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Corresponding authors affiliated with the University of Westminster may publish their articles through Gold Open Access in select PLOS journals, without having to pay open access, or APC fees.\u00a0 This is because, as a\u00a0university, we have entered into an agreement with PLOS, <strong>covering the cost of publishing in <em>PLOS ONE<\/em> and any of the community journals <\/strong>listed below:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>PLOS Genetics<\/li>\n<li>PLOS Pathogens<\/li>\n<li>PLOS Computational Biology<\/li>\n<li>PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases<\/li>\n<li>PLOS Climate<\/li>\n<li>PLOS Digital Health<\/li>\n<li>PLOS Global Public Health<\/li>\n<li>PLOS ONE<\/li>\n<li>PLOS Sustainability and Transformation<\/li>\n<li>PLOS Water<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We strongly encourage you to take advantage of this agreement.<\/p>\n<p>Please note:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You must be the corresponding author who is affiliated with the University of Westminster at the point of acceptance.<\/li>\n<li>You are advised to use your institutional email address instead of your private email address, and to state your Westminster affiliation<\/li>\n<li id=\"footnote2_i88hhc2\">PLOS Medicine and PLOS Biology are <strong>NOT<\/strong> covered by this agreement.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You do not need to contact us to gain permission.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Further Information:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>More information on the <a href=\"https:\/\/plos.org\/resources\/for-institutions\/flat-fee-agreements\/\">PLOS Flat Fee Agreement<\/a> is available.<\/p>\n<p>Any questions, email:\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:repository@westminster.ac.uk\">repository@westminster.ac.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A quick note on other publishers:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>American Psychological Association (APA)<\/b>:\u00a0We have a similar agreement for APA journals.\u00a0 Please see the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/researchoffice\/publish-open-access-in-the-american-psychological-association-apa-journals\/\">APA post<\/a>\u00a0for more detail.<\/li>\n<li><strong data-rich-text-format-boundary=\"true\">Association for Computing Machinery (ACM): <\/strong>We have an agreement covering journal articles and conference papers published by the ACM. Please see the <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/researchoffice\/publish-open-access-with-acm\/\">ACM post<\/a> for more detail.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Cambridge University Press<\/strong>:\u00a0We have a similar agreement for CUP journals.\u00a0 Please see the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/researchoffice\/publish-open-access-with-cambridge-university-press\/\">CUP post<\/a>\u00a0for more detail.<\/li>\n<li><b>Elsevier<\/b>: We have a similar agreement for Elsevier journals.\u00a0 Please see the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/researchoffice\/publish-open-access-with-elsevier-journals\/\">Elsevier post<\/a>\u00a0for more detail.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sage<\/strong>:\u00a0 We have a similar agreement for Sage journals.\u00a0 Please see the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/researchoffice\/publish-open-access-with-sage-including-imeche-and-rsm\/\">Sage post<\/a>\u00a0for more detail.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Springer Nature<\/strong>:\u00a0 We already have a similar agreement for some Springer journals.\u00a0 Please see the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/researchoffice\/publish-open-access-with-springer-compact\/\">Springer post<\/a>\u00a0for more detail, and a link to a list of eligible titles.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Taylor &amp; Francis: <\/strong>Taylor &amp; Francis Open Select journals (including Routledge) now also has a &#8216;read and publish&#8217; agreement.\u00a0 See the <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/researchoffice\/publish-open-access-with-taylor-and-francis-journals\/\">T&amp;F post<\/a> for more details.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Wiley:<\/strong> We have a similar agreement for Wiley journals.\u00a0 Please see the <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/researchoffice\/publish-open-access-with-wiley\/\">Wiley post<\/a>\u00a0for more detail.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Any questions: email <a href=\"mailto:repository@westminster.ac.uk\">repository@westminster.ac.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Corresponding authors affiliated with the University of Westminster may publish their articles through Gold Open Access in select PLOS journals, without having to pay open access, or APC fees.\u00a0 This is because, as a\u00a0university, we have entered into an agreement with PLOS, covering the cost of publishing in PLOS ONE and any of the community &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/researchoffice\/publish-without-charge-in-select-public-library-of-science-plos-journals\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Publish Without Charge in select Public Library of Science (PLOS) Journals&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":386,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,15],"tags":[21,24,42,54,61,70],"class_list":["post-1096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-access","category-scholarly-communications","tag-apc","tag-article-processing-charges","tag-gold-open-access","tag-journal-articles","tag-open-access","tag-publishing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/researchoffice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/researchoffice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/researchoffice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/researchoffice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/researchoffice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1096"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/researchoffice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2764,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/researchoffice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1096\/revisions\/2764"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/researchoffice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/researchoffice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/researchoffice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/researchoffice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}