PLOS is a nonprofit publisher of open-access journals in science, technology, and medicine and other scientific literature, under an open-content license. It was founded in 2000 and launched its first journal, PLOS Biology, in October 2003. Wikipedia
Founders: Michael Eisen, Harold E. Varmus, and Patrick O. Brown
Founded: October 2000, San Francisco, CA
Headquarters: San Francisco, CA
Publication types: Academic journals