Trinity University joins PeerJ in Advancing Open Access Publishing Initiatives

Trinity University, Texas, joins the AIMs program, providing unlimited, APC-free publishing for their faculty

We are excited to welcome Trinity University as our latest Institutional Member. By joining our AIMs program, Trinity-affiliated authors can publish in any PeerJ journal without incurring an APC. Any corresponding or submitting author using a valid Trinity email to submit to PeerJ will automatically qualify for membership benefits. Individuals affiliated with Trinity, but with a different email address, can contact authors@peerj.com to request use of the Annual Institutional Membership.

Trinity University recognizes that the widespread dissemination of scholarly works is fundamental to the mission of the academy. The Coates Library is pleased to support its research community by becoming a PeerJ Institutional Member and hope that the Membership will encourage Trinity authors to make their scholarship open and freely accessible. If you have questions regarding Trinity’s support of PeerJ, or other Open Access initiatives supported by Coates Library, please contact the library.

Trinity authors can find out more on their PeerJ page, or by watching the video below.

About AIMs

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 .