The Public Library of Science (PLOS, formerly PLoS) is a nonprofit open access scientific publishing project aimed at creating a library of open-access journals and other scientific literature under an open content license. It launched its first journal, PLOS Biology, in October 2003 and publishes seven journals, all peer reviewed, as of April 2012.
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