The University of Hawai’i’s Marine Biology Graduate Program becomes a PeerJ Member

UH Marine Biology Graduate Program’s Membership means APC-free Open Access publishing for program-affiliated authors

We are thrilled to welcome the University of Hawai’i’s Marine Biology Graduate Program to our Membership program. The membership means that researchers at one of the world’s leading centers of marine biology can choose Open Access and not face a publication fee. Authors affiliated with UH’s Marine Biology Graduate Program who submit to PeerJ as the corresponding or submitting author will be automatically recognized as eligible to use the membership, and have their publication charges waived. Authors can contact the PeerJ Communities Team – or the Marine Biology Graduate Program team – if they believe they are eligible to publish but not automatically verified.

The mission of the Marine Biology Graduate Program is to continually broaden our understanding and appreciation of marine organisms, and their interrelationships with their biotic and physical environments. The program strives to achieve this mission by providing students with the right combination of tools, training and research opportunities. The program’s objectives for their students includes advanced competency in publishing, and dissemination and communication research findings in professional, public and practical application. As such, the program – and this membership – supports and promotes the publication of research openly.

We are delighted to extend our long-term relationship with the University of Hawai’i’s Marine Biology Graduate Program, and look forward to publishing more of their cutting edge research.

UH MBGP 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 .