From: Peter Binfield <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2012 11:54:32 -0800

Thanks Sandy

Copyediting is not provided (as is the case with many journals, PLoS ONE
included).

The copyright statement is perhaps badly worded. It is simply intended to
indicate that if an author uses copyrighted material for which they would
normally need to seek permission, then they should have received permission
from the copyright owners (that is the " been made available" part) to make
that material available within a paper which has a CC BY 3.0 license. i.e.
it doesn't mean that the re-used material must have been originally
published under that license.

Pete

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sandy Thatcher <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2012 23:34:14 -0600
>
> I could find no mention anywhere on the PeerJ site of copyediting.
> Will copyediting be a service that PeerJ provides to authors?  (It costs
more
> than $99 to edit the typical scientific article.)
>
> Also, the statement about copyright includes this declaration:
> "Authors cannot use copyrighted material within their article unless that
> material has also been made available under a similarly liberal license,"
> i.e., CC-BY 3.0.  This would appear to be a severe restriction on authors'
> use of previously published material because, unless it qualifies as fair
> use or comes from another open access journal using the same CC
> license, authors will be prevented from including it in their articles.
>
> Sandy Thatcher
>
>
> > From: Peter Binfield <[log in to unmask]>
> > Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2012 15:23:54 -0800
> >
> > I append a Press Release put out by PeerJ earlier today - of possible
> > interest to this list
> >
> >  Pete Binfield (PeerJ)
> >
> >  ****
> > Press Release: November 27th, 2012.
> >
> > Open Access journal PeerJ opens for submissions starting December 3rd
> >
> > PeerJ (https://peerj.com), a new multidisciplinary Open Access
> > journal, announced today a formal Call for Papers, with submissions
> > being welcomed starting December 3rd, 2012.
> >
> > Since its original announcement (https://peerj.com/about/reviews),
> > PeerJ has brought together an engaged community of scientists to form
> > an Editorial Board with a broad range of expertise. At the same time,
> > they have created an online Submission, and Peer Review system that
> > has been extremely well received by early beta testers. The Editorial
> > Board is now comprised of 700 leading academics, in addition to an
> > Advisory Board of 20 (which includes 5 Nobel Laureates), and that
> > group has been testing the submission and peer review software
> > throughout November. The successful conclusion of this beta period
> > means that the journal is now ready to begin accepting public
> > submissions starting December 3rd.
> >
> > CEO and Co-Founder Jason Hoyt said "We are excited to start receiving
> > submissions and are pleased to be able to provide researchers with a
> > cutting edge system for submission and publication. We look forward to
> > publishing our first articles in early 2013 and to continuing our
> > vision for the future of scientific publishing."
> >
> > Unique among academic publishers, PeerJ provides authors with low cost
> > lifetime memberships giving them the rights to publish their papers
> > freely thereafter. Three membership plans exist - Basic, Enhanced and
> > Investigator. All Member plans confer lifetime rights, and the three
> > tiers allow members to publish once, twice, or an unlimited number of
> > times per year in PeerJ. Each author on a paper must be a member and
> > the Basic membership plan is just $99 (see: http://peerj.com/pricing
> > for full details).
> >
> > PeerJ will publish all well reported, scientifically sound research in
> > the Biological and Medical Sciences. The journal operates a rigorous
> > peer review process and will deliver the highest standards in
> > everything it does. The Aims & Scope of the journal are detailed at:
> > https://peerj.com/about/aims-and-scope, Instructions for Authors can
> > be found at: https://peerj.com/about/author-instructions, the
> > Editorial Criteria can be found at:
> > https://peerj.com/about/editorial-criteria, and the Editorial Board
> > can be viewed at: https://peerj.com/academic-boards/editors with the
> > Advisors being listed at https://peerj.com/academic-boards/advisors.
> > Starting December 3rd, authors can submit to PeerJ by visiting
> > https://peerj.com
> >
> > With this Call for Papers, PeerJ is now moving swiftly towards first
> > publications, as well as the launch of PeerJ PrePrints
> > (https://peerj.com/about/publications/#PeerJ-PrePrints), both of which
> > are planned for early 2013.
> > _______________________
> >
> > About PeerJ: PeerJ is an Open Access publisher of scholarly scientific
> > content, which offers researchers a lifetime membership, for a single
> > low price, giving them the ability to publish all future articles for
> > free. The company has two publications: a peer-reviewed journal named
> > "PeerJ" and a preprint server called "PeerJ PrePrints". PeerJ is based
> > in San Francisco, CA and London, UK and is co-Founded by Jason Hoyt
> > and Peter Binfield.
> >
> > About Open Access: Open Access is the practice of providing
> > unrestricted, free, online access to peer-reviewed scholarly content
> > (typically journal articles). Copyright is retained by the authors,
> > and a Creative Commons 'attribution license' is commonly applied,
> > meaning that anyone can re-use the material provided they attribute
> > the original source.
> >
> > For more information, or to schedule interviews, email [log in to unmask]
> >
> > Peter Binfield, PhD
> > Co-Founder and Publisher, PeerJ
> > [log in to unmask]
> >
> > http://PeerJ.com
> > Twitter: @p_binfield & @ThePeerJ
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> >
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