1.3: Community Journals

Publish discipline-based community journals.

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The Community Journals - The next major step came in 2005, when PLOS launched three of its four discipline-based community journals -- PLOS Genetics, PLOS Pathogens, and PLOS Computational Biology. In 2007, with the generous support of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, PLOS launched PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases. These publications are typical of scholarly publishing as a whole and show how high-quality community-run OA journals can work. Support from academic leaders has rapidly catapulted these journals to the top of their respective fields.

Stakeholder(s):

• Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

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