PLOS has proven that making quality research openly available for anyone to read, download and reuse is a viable business model. Our collaborative efforts with like-minded organizations have inspired others, from individual researchers to the larger publishing industry, to move toward a more open ethos. In this environment, Open Access is no longer constrained to free access to research, it’s also about open data and a more open way of working together. Examples of this at PLOS include our pioneering a forward-thinking data policy at scale and contributions to the community-developed open-standard taxonomy of contributions, the CRediT Project, that provides specific and comprehensive attribution on research articles for all who participate in generating a published work.
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