June 13, 2012
PeerJ is an Open access publisher of scholarly articles in the biological and medical sciences. It takes its publishing model from Plos One and will includes peer-review of aricles based only on scientific and methodological soundness, not on any subjective determination of impact.
Founded by scientists and academic publishing and technology professionals Jason Hoyt (formerly v-p, R&
and chief scientist for the desktop and Web organizer Mendeley), and Peter Binfield (former publisher of PLoS ONE).
Authors pay one life time fee ($259 before September 1, 2012) to publish unlimited publications a year.
For more information see: http://www.peerj.com
Reviews:
Publishers Weekly: http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/digital/content-and-e-books/article/52512-scholarly-publishing-2012-meet-peerj.html
Nature: http://www.nature.com/news/journal-offers-flat-fee-for-all-you-can-publish-1.10811
