PLOS Community Action Publishing 2025

Concepts

• bristol
• education and training
• plos community action publishing
• plos sustainability
• plos medicine
• plos biology
• plos community action publishing 2025
• plos biology and/or plos medicine and/or plos sustainability and transformation
• un-metered (uncapped) publishing
• publishing

Location

Bristol

Description

Jisc Services Limited has entered into a contract with Public Library of Science for Jisc members publishing in PLOS Biology and/or PLOS Medicine and/or PLOS Sustainability and Transformation. Jisc members pay an annual participation fee for un-metered (uncapped) publishing. Participating institutions will be part of a community supporting a new funding model for highly-selective open access journals

Award Detail

Award Criteria

CPV Codes

• 80000000 - Education and training services

Indicators

• Award on basis of price.

Legal Justification

The supplier is the rightsholder to the IP of the content and the sole supplier of this unique resource. Therefore, Jisc is clear that the arrangement falls within the protection of exclusive rights, including intellectual property rights, contained within Regulation 32 (2) (b) (iii) of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015, permitting Jisc to enter into the direct award.

Other Information

The scope of the framework covers purchases by public sector organisations, including but not limited to the following: Higher Education institutions Further Education institutions Consortiums and any other Organisation or Body whose core purpose is the support or advancement of further or higher education or of research. Any other education institute such as Schools or Colleges Multi Academy Trusts and other such organisations established and acting on behalf Schools and Colleges Specialist Colleges Research Council establishments Charities and Third sector organisations Local Authorities Housing Associations NHS bodies and bodies acting on behalf of the NHS Emergency services and bodies acting on behalf of the NHS Regional Broadband Consortia and any other the organisations connected to or eligible to connect to the Janet network. JSL, Jisc, any Jisc subsidiaries and its members. Any other wider public sector organisation. The framework is open to organisations in England, Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland, as well as members of NRENs outside the UK. Many of the above organisations are members of higher and further education purchasing consortia. These consortia are independent organisations that provide a wide range of collaborative purchase agreements to their member institutions. Any member of one of these consortia will be eligible to purchase from this framework by virtue of its membership, as will members of any other similar purchasing consortium in higher or further education that might be formed during the lifetime of the framework. The Framework is available for use by any National Research and Education Network (NREN) and the community it serves where the NREN has either a direct connection to Janet or the NREN is a member at any time during the period of this framework, or the consortium that operates GÉANT. GÉANT is the pan-European research and education network that interconnects Europe’s NRENs. A list of members of the GÉANT consortium (GÉANT Partners) may be found at the URL below. GÉANT may also use this framework. The framework is available for use by HEAnet, its subsidiaries, member institutions and customers to include schools serviced by the HEAnet school’s network. As HEAnet, the NREN of the Republic of Ireland, is connected both to Janet and is a member of the GÉANT consortium. Membership lists for existing higher and further education purchasing consortia may be found at: https://www.lupc.ac.uk/member-list (https://www.lupc.ac.uk/member-list https://www.supc.ac.uk/about-us/our-members/our-members (https://www.supc.ac.uk/about-us/our-members/our-members http://www.nwupc.ac.uk/our-members (http://www.nwupc.ac.uk/our-members http://www.neupc.ac.uk/members (http://www.neupc.ac.uk/members http://www.hepcw.ac.uk/members/ (http://www.hepcw.ac.uk/members/ http://www.apuc-scot.ac.uk/#!/members (http://www.apuc-scot.ac.uk/#!/members https://www.heanet.ie/who-we-are https://about.geant.org/membership/members-associates-general-assembly-represent...