PeerJ
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| Discipline | Biology, medicine |
| Language | English |
| Edited by | Peter Binfield |
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| Publisher | PeerJ (USA, UK) |
| Publication history | February 2013-present |
| Frequency | Upon acceptance |
| Open access | Yes |
| License | CC-BY-SA 3.0 |
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| ISSN | 2167-8359 |
| OCLC number | 793828439 |
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PeerJ is an open access peer-reviewed scientific journal covering research in the biological and medical sciences.[1][2] It is published by a company of the same name that was co-founded by publisher Peter Binfield (formerly at PLOS ONE) and CEO Jason Hoyt (formerly at Mendeley),[3] with financial backing of USD 950,000 from O'Reilly Media and O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures.[4] It was officially launched in June 2012, started accepting submissions on December 3, 2012, and published its first articles on February 12, 2013.[1] The PeerJ journal is indexed in PubMed, PubMed Central, Scopus and Google Scholar.[5] The company is a member of CrossRef,[6] CLOCKSS,[7] ORCID,[6] and the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association.[8] They have offices in Corte Madera, California and London.
PeerJ uses a business model that differs both from traditional publishers - in that no subscription fees are charged to its readers - and from the major open-access publishers in that the publication fees are levied not per article but per publishing researcher and at a much lower level.[9] PeerJ is complemented by a preprint service named PeerJ Preprints which launched on April 3, 2013.[10] The low costs are in part achieved by using cloud infrastructure: both PeerJ and PeerJ Preprints run on Amazon EC2, with the content stored on Amazon S3.[11]
PeerJ charges authors a one-time membership fee that allows them - with some additional requirements, such as commenting upon, or reviewing, at least one paper per year - to publish in the journal for the rest of their life.[12] Authors are charged $99 to be able to publish one paper a year, $199 for two papers a year and $299 for unlimited publications.[13] Submitted research is judged solely on scientific and methodological soundness (just like at PLoS ONE), with peer reviews published alongside the papers.[14]
In April 2013 The Chronicle of Higher Education selected PeerJ and co-founder Jason Hoyt as one of "Ten Top Tech Innovators" for the year.[15]
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- ^ a b Van Noorden, R. (2012). "Journal offers flat fee for 'all you can publish'". Nature 486 (7402): 166. doi:10.1038/486166a. PMID 22699586. More than one of
|author1=and|last1=specified (help) - ^ PeerJ (ISSN 2167-8359) at WorldCat
- ^ New front in "open access" science publishing row - Reuters
- ^ Tim O'Reilly Backs New Open-Source Publisher PeerJ - Dow Jones Venture Wire
- ^ PeerJ accepted for indexing by PubMed Central, PubMed and Scopus - PeerJ Blog
- ^ a b Scholarly Publishing 2012: Meet PeerJ - Publishers Weekly
- ^ PeerJ Preserves with the CLOCKSS Archive (WebCite archive)
- ^ OASPA - list of members (WebCite archive)
- ^ New Open Access Journal Lets Scientists Publish 'til They Perish - Science Insider
- ^ Peerj preprints (ISSN 2167-9843) at WorldCat
- ^ Pay (less) to publish: ambitious journal aims to disrupt scholarly publishing - Ars Technica
- ^ PeerJ Raises $950K from Tim O’Reilly’s Ventures To Make Biomedical Research Accessible to All - Pando Daily
- ^ New Publishing Venture Gives Researchers Control Over Access - Chronicle of Higher Education
- ^ New OA Journal, Backed by O’Reilly, May Disrupt Academic Publishing - Library Journal
- ^ http://chronicle.com/ (2013-04-29). "The Idea Makers: Tech Innovators 2013". Retrieved 2013-05-01.
