公共科學圖書館(Public Library of Science)出版一系列來自科學和醫學各個領域的有影響力的期刊，其中包含嚴格報告的、經過同行評審的開放獲取研究文章。這些期刊的出版標準各不相同，除了《公共科學圖書館?綜合》(PLOS ONE)，它們還出版各種有影響力和教育意義的非研究內容。這些期刊在編輯上是獨立的。

PLOS (Public Library of Science) publishes a suite of influential journals from all areas of science and medicine that contain rigorously reported, peer-reviewed Open Access research articles. The journals vary in their criteria for publication and, with the exception of PLOS ONE, also publish a variety of influential and educational non-research content. The journals are editorially independent.