Established in 1992 by the International Council for Science (ICSU), INASP is a cooperative network of partners that aims to increase international access to scientific and scholarly information. In particular, INASP seeks to improve the flow of scientific and scholarly information within and between countries with less sophisticated systems of publication and dissemination. INASP's no-frills...

In 2003, the Public Library of Science (PLOS) began a rather ambitious and most welcome project that would effectively offer unlimited access to the latest scientific research by creating a number of high-quality, open access journals. The first journal, PLOS Biology was launched three years ago, and since then, PLOS has created several additional journals dealing with medicine, computational...