The Public Library of Science (PLOS) has announced that the PLOS Global Public Health has published its initial cohort of papers. PLOS announced the launch of five new journals earlier this year and PLOS Global Public Health is the first of these journals with papers ready for publication. The journal’s mission is to address deeply entrenched global inequities in public health by broadening the range of perspectives from which we learn. The journal has so far received more than 700 submissions from researchers around the world.
The journal is underpinned by PLOS’ new Global Equity model designed to remove financial barriers for researchers and institutions across all geographies and funding backgrounds to participate in Open Access and Open Science at PLOS. PLOS is partnering with institutions in this model to provide unlimited publication support for their authors through a single, annual fee that is based on each institution’s historical research output in the field and is reflective of their regional economy according to their country’s World Bank lending tier. The existing fee-assistance program also supports authors who are unable to pay any portion of their publication fees.
“In full alignment with the proposed UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science, the journal will ensure diversity and equity of representation at all levels – editors, editorial boards, reviewers, authors – and will intentionally seek out research from under-represented communities.
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