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...
What actions can we take to push for publishing reform and incentivise open publishing practices?
Early career researchers bear the brunt of negative effects created by closed research practices in a complex system of authority and assessment. In this guest post, Corina Logan, Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge, shares news of a new campaign aimed at...
Announcing the PeerJ Collection for SMBE 2017
We are pleased to announce that we will be publishing a PeerJ Collection for the upcoming Annual Meeting of the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution (SMBE 2017) in Austin, TX. The meeting will take place from July 2–6, 2017. All speakers and poster presenters...
Conservation science in a world of poaching – what steps can researchers take to protect vulnerable species from harm?
Research on vulnerable species has been instrumental in protecting habitats and wildlife. But the same research can also be negatively used for illegal poaching activities. In this guest post, Georgina Cronin, Research Support Librarian at the University of Cambridge,...
Guest Post – The SAVE-SD 2015 Collection
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 demonstrated by...
The PeerJ “Human Motion Project” collection: the 3rd winter symposium of the Human Motion Project
We are pleased to announce that the PeerJ “HumanMotion Project” collection is growing and will be the platform to host abstracts, presentations, preprints and papers of the third Winter Symposium of the Human Motion Project jointly organized by the Human Motion...
The HSCBB Collection at PeerJ
The Hellenic Society for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (HSCBB) just had their annual meeting, and we are pleased to say that they will be submitting papers from that meeting to PeerJ for peer-review and possible inclusion in a PeerJ Collection. We asked...
Grace Gachanja on her PrePrint Experiences at 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...
Abram Hindle on his PrePrint Experiences at 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)). Given this level of interest, we thought it would...
Christian Althaus on his PrePrint Experiences at 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)). Given this level of interest, we thought it would...