PrePrints continue to increase in popularity among academics, with a number of recent blog posts highlighting their utility (from ourselves, Stephen Curry, Liz Martin-Silverstone, Tim Gowers and Mike Taylor (twice)). Given this level of interest, we thought it would...
Christian Althaus on his PrePrint Experiences at PeerJ
PrePrints continue to increase in popularity among academics, with a number of recent blog posts highlighting their utility (from ourselves, Stephen Curry, Liz Martin-Silverstone, Tim Gowers and Mike Taylor (twice)). Given this level of interest, we thought it would...
Rob Gay on his PrePrint Experiences at PeerJ
PrePrints continue to increase in popularity among academics, with a number of recent blog posts highlighting their utility (from ourselves, Stephen Curry, Liz Martin-Silverstone, Tim Gowers and Mike Taylor (twice)). Given this level of interest, we thought it would...
John Hutchinson on his PrePrint Experiences at PeerJ
PrePrints continue to increase in popularity among academics, with a number of recent blog posts highlighting their utility (from ourselves, Stephen Curry, Liz Martin-Silverstone, Tim Gowers and Mike Taylor (twice)). Given this level of interest, we thought it would...
John Bruno on his PrePrint Experiences at PeerJ
PrePrints continue to increase in popularity among academics, with a number of recent blog posts highlighting their utility (from ourselves, Stephen Curry, Liz Martin-Silverstone, Tim Gowers and Mike Taylor (twice)). Given this level of interest, we thought it would...
Dorothy Bishop on her PrePrint Experiences at PeerJ
PrePrints continue to increase in popularity among academics, with a number of recent blog posts highlighting their utility (from ourselves, Stephen Curry, Liz Martin-Silverstone, Tim Gowers and Mike Taylor (twice)). Given this level of interest, we thought it would...
A PeerJ PrePrint – so just what is that exactly?
Ever looked at the PeerJ website and wondered what a PrePrint is? Or noticed your colleagues have published a PrePrint with PeerJ and wondered about the difference between a PrePrint and a peer-reviewed article? Well wonder no more - we are here to demystify the...
Engage with PeerJ articles or preprints, earn credit, and publish for free!
At PeerJ, our mission is to not only drive the costs of academic publishing down, but to also create an environment where authors know that if they publish with us then they will receive timely and helpful feedback. This is a symbiotic relationship central to the...
PeerJ PrePrints – The Time Has Come!
One year ago, on April 3rd 2013, we launched PeerJ PrePrints (and just one day later we published our first PrePrint articles). Despite failed preprint launches in previous years, we believed that preprints were an idea whose time had finally come. So one year later,...
What motivates a person to put a soon to be peer-reviewed manuscript on a preprint server?
What happens when you ask twitter for an opinion on preprints? Well first of all, an impromptu competition gets announced, and then the party starts! On Wednesday, Devin Drown asked what motivates a person to put a soon to be peer-reviewed manuscript on a preprint...