UPDATED on 1/28/2014
New PeerJ updates
New PeerJ functionality
Publish for Free at PeerJ:
From now through the end of March 2014, anyone who submits an article to PeerJ PrePrints will be able to publish that same article (assuming it pases peer review) for free in the peer-reviewed PeerJ journal. Read this post PeerJ> for further details, and submit your work now.
New Subject-Specific RSS Feeds:
We have recently expanded our navigation options to add RSS feeds at the topic level. In addition to our advanced search and browse functionality, this now means that people can track PeerJ’s output in specific subject areas using their favorite RSS reader. Read more PeerJ>
UK universities + JISC + PeerJ:
From today UK universities will be able to centrally fund their researchers’ publication plans for biological and medical sciences journal PeerJ following an agreement with Jisc. This will allow authors to publish articles in the award winning journal for free, for life. Learn more about institutional plans and see the JISC announcement <http://www.jisc-collections.ac.uk/News/Peer-J—Affordable-open-access-publishing-now-available-to-biological-and-medical-science-researchers/> .
Submit to PeerJ via writeLaTeX:
We’ve partnered with writeLatex to make writing LaTeX as easy as MS Word, and then submit into PeerJ or PeerJ PrePrints. If you’ve never tried LaTeX before then give it a go on your next submission. Read more PeerJ>
Join Thousands of Satisfied Authors:
We are pleased to say that in early January, PeerJ passed the milestone of having peer-reviewed and published the work of over 1,000 authors. All published articles are fully peer-reviewed and more than 400 of our reviewers to date have chosen to make their name known. In addition, ~80% of our published articles have chosen to make their peer-review history ‘public’.
PeerJ Has Moved to CC-BY 4.0:
The Creative Commons CC-BY license is one of the most common licenses used by open access publishers. Creative Commons recently updated the license to version 4.0 and so we are pleased to say that henceforth, articles which are newly submitted to us will be published under this updated version.
PeerJ Gets Fast Decisions Back to Authors:
We know that receiving a prompt first decision is extremely important to our authors. To date, submissions to PeerJ are receiving their First Decision in a median time of just 24 days.
Adding ‘Bonus Links’ to PeerJ Articles:
We recently rolled out the ability for any readers to add relevant links PeerJ> to a published article or preprint. With this functionality, users can provide additional context to an article, and they can get credit for doing so!
New to Peer-Review?
We were pleased to host a guest blog post PeerJ> last week explaining how researchers can become good at peer-review. It has been extremely well received and we encourage anyone who is embarking on a PeerJ review to give it a read.
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UPDATED on 1/21/2014
Berkeley recently took out an ‘institutional arrangement’ with PeerJ. This means that any Berkeley author who has an article accepted at PeerJ will not need to pay for their personal publication plan (the university library will automatically pay this fee for them via functionality on our site). Information about this arrangement can be found at: https://peerj.com/institutions/6/uc-berkeley/
This is a significant benefit for faculty from Berkeley, and so I would like to ask for your help in promoting it to your colleagues. Please note: your library has already pre-paid for this benefit, so I am not trying to sell anything to your colleagues, I simply want to make them aware it already exists so that they can take advantage of it!
Peter Binfield, PhD Co-Founder and Publisher, PeerJ email: pete@peerj.com Web: http://PeerJ.com Twitter: @p_binfield & @ThePeerJ
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2/12/2013 – PeerJ Model
UPDATED on 4/17/2013
PeerJ is now being indexed by PubMed, PubMed Central, Scopus and Google Scholar. Being appropriately indexed, and receiving a PMID, is very important for our authors and you can read more about this development at: http://blog.peerj.com/post/47445954946/ <http://blog.peerj.com/post/47445954946/pubmed-central-pubmed-and-scopus-indexing-peerj>
We launched PeerJ PrePrints, and have already published several articles (see http://blog.peerj.com/post/47030855181/ <http://blog.peerj.com/post/47030855181/the-launch-of-peerj-preprints> ). Free Members are able to publish one preprint per year for free, while all paid Members can publish an unlimited number or preprints per year.
Four universities have now entered into an institutional arrangement to provide PeerJ memberships to their faculty. These institutions are Duke University, University of Nottingham (UK), University of Birmingham (UK), and Arizona State University. Read more at: http://blog.peerj.com/post/47613868756/. If you would like your Institution to get involved in this way then have them contact us via https://peerj.com/pricing/institutions/
We continue to post a series of interviews with PeerJ authors. If you are thinking of submitting to PeerJ then you will be interested in their experiences. The Series can be viewed at: http://blog.peerj.com/tagged/authorinterview and this blog post (http://blog.peerj.com/post/45340534713/ <http://blog.peerj.com/post/45340534713/peerj-is-fast> ) highlights feedback we’ve received about how fast our process is.
Yesterday we announced a special arrangement for any undergraduate authors. Read more at: http://blog.peerj.com/post/48113204454/. We had received feedback that in some cases undergraduate co-authors were unable to pay our fees – clearly we do not want to exclude people like this from the ability to publish an article for which they are an author. Therefore, provided a submission also has senior authors who have a normal Membership status, then any authors who were an undergraduate when the research was conducted can publish with us at no cost (assuming the submission passes peer review as normal). We will be running this as a pilot for the rest of 2013.
Finally, if you are thinking about submitting to us, then we published a popular blog post a few weeks back entitled the “Six Reasons to Submit to PeerJ” – this has proven to be one of our most well read posts of the year. http://blog.peerj.com/post/46261563342/6-reasons-to-publish-with-peerj
We look forward to your submissions to either PeerJ or PeerJ PrePrints. You can find our instructions for authors at https://peerj.com/about/author-instructions/ and you can follow us for ‘real time’ announcements on twitter (@ThePeerJ ), at our blog, or at Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/thePeerJ) .
PeerJ Publishes Its First Articles
Journal Publisher Heralds in a New Era of Innovation and Affordability in Academic Publishing
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 12, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — PeerJ (https://peerj.com), a new academic journal publisher, founded on the principles of affordability, innovation, and Open Access, published its first articles today.
(Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130212/SF55038LOGO)
PeerJ, launched by Jason Hoyt (formerly at Mendeley and Stanford University) and Peter Binfield (formerly at PLOS ONE), has been shaped from the premise that ‘if society can set a goal to sequence a human genome for just $99 then why shouldn’t academics be given the opportunity to openly publish their research for a similar amount?’. By publishing its first 30 peer-reviewed articles today, PeerJ moves one step closer to realizing that vision.
“We are doing things that no other publisher is doing,” said Hoyt, Co-Founder and CEO of PeerJ. “It has been reported that the global academic community pays as much as $9.5B per year for access to academic journals. We believe that these costs could be reduced by as much as 75% using new business models such as that employed by PeerJ, and utilizing open distribution licenses such as the Creative Commons license. The result will be a net benefit to the global research effort and a welcome increase in the efficiency and effectiveness of academic publication.”
PeerJ aims to establish a new model for the publication of all well reported, scientifically sound research in the Biological and Medical Sciences. To achieve that, the organization has built an economical and efficient peer review and publication system and assembled an Editorial Board of 800 esteemed academics, including an Advisory Board of 20 (five of whom are Nobel Laureates). A rigorous peer review process is operated, and the journal strives to deliver the highest standards in everything it does.
Uta Francke, an author on one of the launch day articles; PeerJ Advisory Board member; Professor of Genetics and Pediatrics, Emeritus, Stanford University School of Medicine; and Past President of both the ‘American Society of Human Genetics‘ and the ‘International Federation of Human Genetics Societies’ said that she was “excited about the launch of PeerJ, which represents much more than just another Open Access publishing venture. The innovative membership model, including a commitment to review the work of one’s peers, will ensure an interactive relationship of equals – authors, editors and reviewers – all striving for high quality research reports published in a totally transparent fashion after rigorous constructive peer review.”
Tim O’Reilly, the founder of O’Reilly Media and a thought leader in the Open Source movement, sits on the Governing Board of PeerJ Inc. and brings a wealth of knowledge, and passion, for the promotion of open, unfettered communication in academia. Tim had this to say about PeerJ: “It’s easy to forget that technological revolutions also demand business model revolutions. Open access is transformative for science publishing, not only because it spreads knowledge more efficiently, but because it slashes the cost of producing and consuming that knowledge.”
Authors wishing to experience the future of publishing can now submit their articles at: https://peerj.com/
Download the Full Press Release at: http://bit.ly/PeerJPR02052013
Learn About PeerJ: https://peerj.com/about/
Additional Press Releases:
Two of the ‘launch day’ articles are being separately press released (also embargoed): These are a neuroscientific study of Penn and Teller’s “Cups and Balls” magic trick (at: http://bit.ly/RieiroPeerJRelease); and a study by 23andMe on consumer reactions to information regarding their genetic predispositions to breast and ovarian cancer (at: http://bit.ly/FranckePeerJRelease)
Links: Twitter: @ThePeerJ ; Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/thePeerJ ; Google+: http://peerj.com/+ ; Blog: http://blog.peerj.com/
Media Contact: press@peerj.com
(Tel: +1 415 413 4596 PST)
Prior Press Releases and Media Resources (including logos): https://peerj.com/about/press/
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