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<p><span style="color: #000000">The <b>Public Library of Science (PLoS)</b> 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, <i>PLoS Biology</i>, in October 2003 and has steadily created another seven journals. One has since been discontinued and as of May 2009 PLoS publishes seven journals, all peer reviewed.</span></p>
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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1"><span style="color: #000000"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">History</span></span></li>
<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2"><span style="color: #000000"><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">Business model</span></span></li>
<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3"><span style="color: #000000"><span class="tocnumber">3</span> <span class="toctext">Impact</span></span></li>
<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4"><span style="color: #000000"><span class="tocnumber">4</span> <span class="toctext">PLoS journals, hubs, and currents</span></span></li>
<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-5"><span style="color: #000000"><span class="tocnumber">5</span> <span class="toctext">See also</span></span></li>
<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-6"><span style="color: #000000"><span class="tocnumber">6</span> <span class="toctext">Footnotes</span></span></li>
<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-7"><span style="color: #000000"><span class="tocnumber">7</span> <span class="toctext">References</span></span></li>
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<li><a class="external text" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.plos.org/" rel="nofollow"><font color="#3366bb">Public Library of Science website</font></a></li> <li><a class="external text" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/07/opinion/07THU3.html" rel="nofollow"><font color="#3366bb">Editorial in the 7 August 2003 edition of <i>The New York Times</i> concerning Public Library of Science journals</font></a></li> <li><a class="external text" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.biomedcentral.com" rel="nofollow"><font color="#3366bb">BioMed Central website</font></a></li> <li><a class="external text" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.hindawi.com" rel="nofollow"><font color="#3366bb">Hindawi Publishing Corporation website</font></a></li> <li><a class="external text" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/fosblog.html" rel="nofollow"><font color="#3366bb">Open Access News</font></a> by <a title="Peter Suber" href="/wiki/Peter_Suber"><font color="#0645ad">Peter Suber</font></a></li>
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