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Nature 418, 805 (22 August 2002) | doi:10.1038/418805b

Public-access group plans journals

Kendall Powell

The Public Library of Science (PLS) — a group of researchers who last year threatened to boycott scientific publishers unless they put their journals online for free — will unveil its own publishing venture by the end of the year, one of its leading members says.Michael Eisen, a geneticist at the University of California, Berkeley, and a founding member of the PLS, says that the venture will produce free-access print and online journals, covering costs by making page charges to authors.