PLOS
As a researcher at Halmstad University you can publish Open Access without any charges in all of PLOS' journals. PLOS is a non-profit publisher that only publishes Open Access journals with a main focus on medicine and natural sciences.
Agreement period
2024-2025
Workflow for authors and publication fee
PLOS problems
This is a new agreement and PLOS is having issues with their submission platform (pairing articles to agreements). As long as they are having these problems you can do one of following:
- If you want to submit now, before the pairing is fixed, you can go ahead. You will see the price of the APC and you will be sent an invoice. The invoice has to be cancelled manually. We will need to know when you get them, so we can arrange this. Please contact diva.helpdesk@hh.se.
- The other alternative is for you to wait until the quotes your are presented with (when doing the author workflow) is 0.
PLOS do not have a specific deadline when the pairing will work correctly.
To get APC free publishing, please follow the author workflow instructions given in the how-to video below. There are two critical steps:
- When logged in, please update you information. You are strongly required to choose Halmstad University (the broadest version of Halmstad University) in the drop-down menu.
- When starting submitting, you follow different steps, and in the publication fees section you have to click the radio button "My institution will fully or partially pay the fee as a member of PLOS Institutional Account Program", and a second drop-down menu will appear, where you have to choose Halmstad University once more.
What’s included?
All PLOS journals are included in the agreement. They are listed on the following page: