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

3.
• Free, immediate access
• Deposition in a digital public archive
• Unrestricted reuse
What is Open Access?

4.
The Growth of Open Access
“The Development of Open Access Journal Publishing from 1993 to 2009”, Laakso et
al, PLoS ONE, e20961

5.
New Publishers
for New Scientists

6.
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

7.
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

8.
Peter Binfield
Co-Founder & Publisher, PeerJ
http://PeerJ.com
@p_binfield
Thank You!