New Publishers for New Scientists - PeerJ at MedicineX
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New Publishers for New Scientists summarizes PeerJ, a new open access publisher for the biological and medical sciences. PeerJ uses a lifetime membership model that dramatically reduces publication costs. It judges submissions solely based on technical and scientific validity. PeerJ also has a preprint server called PeerJ PrePrints that allows privacy controls to encourage participation in an experimental space for testing new features. The goal is to better align academic journals with their purpose of sharing information.
New Publishers for New Scientists - PeerJ at MedicineX
- 1. New Publishers for New Scientists Peter Binfield @p_binfield pete@peerj.com
- 2. “Somewhere along the way, the business of academic journals got stupidly misaligned with their raison d’être” PandoDaily 2012 “Information Wants To Be Free. Information also wants to be expensive. ...That tension will not go away.” Stewart Brand, 1985
- 9. • Free, immediate access • Deposition in a digital public archive • Unrestricted reuse What is Open Access?
- 12. The Growth of Open Access “The Development of Open Access Journal Publishing from 1993 to 2009”, Laakso et al, PLoS ONE, e20961
- 13. New Publishers for New Scientists
- 15. What makes unique? “PeerJ” – a Peer Reviewed Journal - in the biological and medical sciences, - judging submissions only on technical and scientific validity, - encouraging ‘Open’ Peer Review paired with a PrePrint Server – “PeerJ PrePrints” - with a full suite of ‘privacy’ controls to encourage participation, - in an experimental space where new features, functionalities and standards can be tried out. Using a ‘lifetime membership’ model which dramatically reduces the cost of publication
- 16. The Membership Model Unlimited publications/yr Great for principal investigators Basic Plan $99 Lifetime One publication/yr Great for graduate students * All contributing authors need a plan membership * Members must perform one review per year
- 18. Peter Binfield Co-Founder & Publisher, PeerJ http://PeerJ.com @p_binfield Thank You!
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- The three Central Tenets of the Bethesda Definition (2003) Free, immediate access Deposition in a digital public archive Unrestricted reuse As an author you may not even be able to read your own articles Ask the, - you have had the experience as well