Today we launched a “beta version of PeerJ Jobs” for anyone to list available research or academic administrative jobs. For now, we are limiting job listings to the same areas in which PeerJ publishes;...
Like many of you, we were stunned by the “leave” result in the June 23rd United Kingdom EU referendum. Half of PeerJ’s staff is based in the UK, and so this will personally affect...
We recently published “Postcranial anatomy of Pissarrachampsa sera (Crocodyliformes, Baurusuchidae) from the Late Cretaceous of Brazil: insights on lifestyle and phylogenetic significance”. In this study, author Pedro L. Godoy and his colleagues discuss the results of...
Guest blog post from Silvio Peroni, Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Bologna. The first “International Workshop on Semantics, Analytics, Visualisation: Enhancing Scholarly Data” (SAVE-SD 2015) was a great success, as...
As announced in an earlier blog post, we are pleased to be creating a new Advisory Group to help guide the development of PeerJ Preprints. We are truly thankful to the many people who...
If you missed it, last week Theral Timpson at Mendelspod interviewed PeerJ co-founder Jason Hoyt on a wide range of topics, but with a general theme of the future of scholarly communications. This included...
PeerJ was fortunate enough to be invited to Amsterdam for the EU Presidency Conference on Open Science this past Monday and Tuesday (April 4-5, 2016). I was able to attend and represent PeerJ. We had...
While some might say that scholarly publishing seems to be immune to change, it doesn’t mean the way to fund it can’t be more innovative. That’s one reason why we are pleased to announce that PeerJ now...
tl;dr – We are seeking nominations to the “PeerJ Preprints Advisory Group”. Please email your suggestions to editor@peerj.com. Deadline April 8th, 2016. Since PeerJ Preprints launched in April 2013 both the venue and the wider...
Last month, PeerJ Preprints published “Gender bias in open source: Pull request acceptance of women versus men”. That preprint was quickly picked up, and went on to receive a huge amount of feedback in...
This week ASAPbio is happening in Washington DC. This is an important meeting, being held with the support of HHMI and the NIH, devoted to exploring and encouraging the use of preprints in biology....
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