The University of Groningen has joined the PeerJ AIMs program, providing unlimited, APC-free publishing for their authors to ensure their research is made openly available
We are excited to welcome the latest member of the PeerJ AIMs program, the University of Groningen. The Membership ensures that researchers affiliated with the University of Groningen and University Medical Center Groningen, and who submit to any PeerJ journal as the corresponding or submitting author, will be automatically eligible to publish without having to pay any publication fees.
The University of Groningen is an internationally-oriented research university in the Netherlands with more than 30,000 students. Open access is one of its strategic focus areas. The University of Groningen believes that research results should be freely available to the public, particularly if the research is publicly funded, which is why they encourage open access publishing where possible.
University of Groningen authors can find out more on their PeerJ page, or by watching the video below.
A PeerJ Annual Institutional Membership (AIM) provides unlimited, frictionless OA publishing for institutional partners and their faculty. Simple to manage, easy to purchase and providing great cost saving opportunities, researchers will never have to worry about having to pay an APC, and librarians can say goodbye to the administrative overhead of dealing with payments on an article by article basis.
AIMs pricing is tiered and based on an institution’s publishing history in PeerJ’s journal portfolio. When a partner’s renewal is calculated, if the equivalent APC cost would have been less than the Membership fee, they can choose to carry over the difference towards their Membership renewal, or contribute to PeerJ’s Global Publishing Fund, which supports authors without the means to publish OA. AIMs simplify OA and are an important step towards a non-APC future of globally equitable access to read and publish open science.
Institutions who are interested in AIMs should contact PeerJ.