The PeerJ mascot is a blue monkey.COURTESY PEERJ
A new, open-access journal will charge contributors a one-time fee to publish papers in perpetuity. Officials at PeerJ announced yesterday (June 12) that the journal will begin taking submissions from the realm of biological and medical science research this summer and will publish its first articles in December 2012. The journal will employ an entirely new model of open-access publishing, with contributors paying a one-time membership fee for one of three levels of lifetime publishing privileges: $99 for one publication per year, $169 for 2 publications per year, and $259 for unlimited publication.
Peter Binfield, who was publisher of PLoS ONE, and Jason Hoyt, previously with the research paper sharing website Mendeley, are the brains behind the new journal. "PeerJ significantly moves the needle towards ...
