PLOS and Plan S Price & Service Transparency Framework 2022 - The Official PLOS Blog

"We’re pleased to once again share our annual reporting from the Plan S Price & Service Transparency Framework to give our community insight into how our publication fees are used to support journal activities and operational costs. 

PLOS has participated in the framework since its pilot phase in 2020 and we’ve made all of our reporting transparently available through our blog. As the framework has been largely unchanged from previous years, we aim to keep this update short, but encourage you to look back at our original post for more detail on the categories Plan S provides for allocation, as well as key differences between our journal models...."