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The Official PLOS Blog covers PLOS initiatives that address our core principles.

As a fully Open Access (OA) publisher since our founding, PLOS meets or exceeds all Plan S requirements and recommendations. In fact, we always have! That won’t change as cOAlition S moves forward with the next phase of Plan S implementation.

Open Access (OA) Week is a time that’s dear to our hearts at PLOS. The Open movement has grown and changed a lot over the past 14 years. Through it all PLOS has remained at the forefront of Open, exemplifying the themes of each celebration—almost like they were tailor-made, just for us. Let’s take a look back at highlights from those past celebrations, and a look ahead at where we think the Open movement is headed next.

We were thrilled last Thursday to read the United States Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) memorandum on the subject of “Ensuring Free, Immediate, and Equitable Access to Federally Funded Research.” The vision expressed in the memo represents a tremendous step toward the future of scientific research communication that PLOS since our founding in 2001.

Three years ago PLOS implemented our version of open peer review, which we named with our typical scrupulous precision and total disregard for word count: Published Peer Review History. Since then, the PLOS journals have together published over 18,000 articles with accompanying peer review history.