PeerJ to offer only peer-reviewed open access journal publishing going forward. PeerJ Preprints is a free service that launched in April 2013, just two months after publishing began in our more traditional peer-reviewed journal, PeerJ. At the time, there were no...
A new preprint was recently shared on PeerJ Preprints on the Use of the Journal Impact Factor in academic review, promotion, and tenure evaluations. Alice Fleerackers, Juan Pablo Alperin, and Erin McKiernan discuss the investigation and the findings on how the flawed...
PeerJ is thrilled to announce that starting July 2018, all PeerJ Preprints are now indexed in Europe PMC, a major repository for life sciences. We know it is extremely important to our authors that their work is appropriately indexed and maximally discoverable and...
This is a guest post written by PeerJ Academic Editor Christopher Lortie, who recently shared a preprint on PeerJ Preprints discussing optimal ways of cultivating ideas for scientific discovery. Invasion biology shows that there is a lot to be learned from studying...
Preprints are receiving welcome attention these days for being an integral part of research communication. A ‘preprint' is a manuscript draft that has not yet been peer reviewed for formal publication. Authors can share early versions of their work, solicit feedback...
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 provided suggestions for the Advisory Group. As is often the case in nomination...
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 thoughts on SciHub, peer review, preprints and more. We know...
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 venues as diverse as twitter, Reddit, Slashdot, Facebook, news...
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. Therefore, we thought it would be timely to explain how 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) to name just a few). Given this level of interest, we...
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