From: Peter Binfield <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2013 22:48:32 -0700

Of interest to this list:  April 10th press release from PeerJ.

Peter Binfield, PhD
Co-Founder and Publisher, PeerJ
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http://PeerJ.com
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Press Release: PeerJ Announces the First Institutions to Provide PeerJ
Memberships to their Faculty

PeerJ Inc. (https://PeerJ.com), the publisher of PeerJ (a peer
reviewed Open Access journal) and PeerJ PrePrints (a preprint server)
today announced the first four universities to enter into an
institutional arrangement to centrally fund PeerJ membership fees for
their faculty.

"We have seen a lot of interest from institutions in the PeerJ model",
said Peter Binfield, Publisher and Co-Founder of PeerJ. "Our
membership fees are already very low for individual authors, and so
this means that an institution is able to centrally fund the
memberships of a large number of faculty and authors for a very low
outlay. Literally, for the price of one year's access to two or three
subscription journals, a library can make a single payment and provide
PeerJ memberships to hundreds of their faculty.  And those memberships
are for life, meaning that the faculty can then publish with PeerJ for
free, forever."

Universities who have already entered into these arrangements for
their faculty include Duke University, the University of Nottingham
(UK), the University of Birmingham (UK), and Arizona State University.

"The University of Nottingham is a longstanding advocate of open
access publishing, and we are delighted to be working with PeerJ" said
Rob Johnson, of the University of Nottingham. "Their publication model
offers a genuine and affordable alternative to authors and academic
institutions seeking to secure free access to their research."

Anali Perry of Arizona State University Libraries said that "PeerJ is
breaking ground with an innovative publishing platform and business
model, presenting an affordable, high quality option for researchers
in the biological, medical, and health sciences. The Arizona State
University Libraries are pleased to support PeerJ's creative effort in
scholarly publishing."

PeerJ emphasizes research integrity; high ethical standards;
constructive peer-review; exemplary production quality; and leading
edge online functionality. The journal is indexed by PubMed, PubMed
Central (PMC), Scopus and Google Scholar. There is an Editorial Board
of over 800 world class researchers, and a 20-member Advisory Board
which includes 5 Nobel Laureates. In addition, PeerJ members benefit
from the ability to publish articles in PeerJ PrePrints.

Institutions can choose to purchase individual memberships for their
authors in advance (and distribute them as they choose), or they can
pre-pay for memberships which are then used by their faculty as and
when they come to publish at PeerJ. Both options allow an institution
to provide an Open Access option to a large number of their authors,
in an extremely cost effective way.

Any Institution, Library, Consortium, Foundation or Funding Body
interested in discussing one of these arrangements can contact PeerJ
at [log in to unmask] or via their website at
https://peerj.com/pricing/institutions/