As a proud co-founder of Open Access Week, we hope you will join us in celebrating progress and promoting awareness to help make Open Access – the founding principle of PLOS – the new norm in scholarship and research globally. This year’s theme is “Open in Order to…” and invites the community to focus on what openness enables.

Since PLOS’ beginning, we’ve been open in order to accelerate progress in science and medicine through publishing, advocacy and innovation to benefit the research community and beyond. PLOS is open in order to ensure that: research outcomes are discoverable, accessible and available for discussion; science communication is constructive, transparent and verifiable; and publishing advances reproducibility, transparency and accountability.

Join PLOS in an Open Access Week Event (and find other events near you):

• Wed 10/25 5:30–8:00 pm PDT Open House & Poetry Slam at PLOS – Please join us at the PLOS office for refreshments, office tours to see how we work and an Open Mic Poetry Slam with guests invited to share poems, songs, or free verse on the OA Week theme: “Open in order to….” We’ll have fun prizes for all who choose to share!

• Wed 10/25–Fri 10/27 FORCE 2017 | Changing the Culture – Alison Mudditt, PLOS Chief Executive Officer and Emma Ganley, PLOS Biology Chief Editor will be in Berlin at this conference that brings together a diverse group of people interested in changing the way in which scholarly and scientific information is communicated and shared

• Wed 10/25–Fri 10/27 Leaders in Biobanking Congress 2017 – Sheryl Denker, PLOS Communications Editor, will be in Nashville presenting on Open Access, Data and Methods Considerations for Publishing in Precision Medicine

• Thu 10/26 1:00–2:30 pm PDT Understanding the (Changing) Realm of Peer Review – Lauren Richardson (PLOS Biology Associate Editor) is participating in this panel discussion at UC Berkeley

• Fri 10/27 9:00 am–1:15 pm BDT Helping Researchers Publish in STEM – Nicola Stead (PLOS ONE Senior Editor) is speaking at this University of Cambridge session

Explore PLOS Journals – which have now published more than 200,000 research articles:

• PLOS ONE – Celebrate the journal’s Tenth Anniversary: browse collections, meet the editors, see the winning T-shirt design and watch a video about why authors choose to publish with us

• PLOS Biology – Learn about antibiotic resistance, appetite, autism and more in Open Highlights and hear from scientists why Research Matters

• PLOS Medicine – Browse Special Issues that bring together original research and commentary: Traumatic Injury, Dementia, Diabetes Prevention and Translating the Cancer Genome

• PLOS Computational Biology – Explore the latest Focus Feature: Network Approaches and Applications in Biology, the popular Ten Simple Rules and Methods Collections and Topic Pages–where PLOS Comp Bio meets Wikipedia

• PLOS Genetics – Find out who won this year’s PLOS Genetics Research Prize and learn more about the winning research, submit a Topic Page, browse Up For a Challenge – Stimulating Innovation in Breast Cancer Geneti... featuring winning articles from this National Cancer Institute competition and read Bringing PLOS Genetics Editors to Preprint Servers

• PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases – Join us in celebrating ten years of serving the global community, browse the the 10th Anniversary Collection, meet journal staff and editors at ASTMH (Nov 5–9, Booth 313) and respond to the Call for Papers on vector-borne diseases

• PLOS Pathogens – Dive into “lessons-that-last” with Pearls, a living collection of 400+ short, educational articles with practical insights for trainees and scientists at all career stages, share Research Matters – a collection that aims to enhance the public’s understanding of the benefits of basic research – and respond to the call for papers on Bridging Communities: Co- and Polymicrobial Infections

Follow PLOS Channels:

• Discover Cholera, Tuberculosis, Open Source Toolkit and Veterans Disability & Rehabilitation Research: PLOS Channels present content curated by experts from PLOS journals as well as the broader literature with commentary, blogs, news and discussions

Be Open in Order to:

• Distinguish yourself – create a record of your scholarly contributions by registering for an ORCiD ID
• Get early credit and feedback with preprints – learn the Ten Simple Rules to consider regarding preprint submission and explore the best of both worlds with preprints and journals
• Promote reproducibility of research – receive credit for methods while saving time and resources and explore PLOS ONE’s approach to promoting reproducibility by emphasizing reporting
• Share your data – see how PLOS ONE is making progress toward open data and learn why this is particularly critical to advance discovery of treatments and cures for rare diseases
• Succeed – play an active role in accelerating the dissemination of your work with PLOS’ latest journal transfer option

Get involved:

• Learn about FASTR – As Open Access takes center stage with the Fair Access to Science and Technology Research Act in Congress, PLOS reaffirms its commitment to and support of Open Access

• Vote for your favorite PLOS Paleo Open Access Taxa of 2017 by Nov 15 – authors of the winning paper will receive a commissioned sketch of their new taxa (learn more)

• Join the conversation with PLOS Science Wednesdays 1:00 pm EDT – the Ask Me Anything (AMA) series with PLOS authors on redditscience

• Listen to the So Crazy It Might Work podcast – End the stranglehold of scientific journals with Mark Johnson, PLOS Director of Marketing

Publish with PLOS and share your work with the world

• Find out which journal is the right fit for your work
• Search PLOS articles to see where your colleagues are publishing
• Explore PLOS Research News with author interviews, video highlights, new research and summaries of newly published PLOS articles

Stay in touch with PLOS

• Get updates and eTOCs
• Follow PLOS on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn
• Meet us at upcoming conferences

Have a great Open Access Week!