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 second Winter Symposium of the Human Motion Project jointly organized by the Human Motion...
Announcing PeerJ Picks 2015
Yesterday, PeerJ passed the milestone of two years of publishing articles (we started publishing on Feb 12th 2013). Also yesterday, our new journal PeerJ Computer Science opened for submissions! We celebrated by putting together an infographic and a short video -...
Celebrating two-years of publishing, and PeerJ Computer Science now open for submissions
Today is a big day for us. Not only does it mark two years since PeerJ began publishing articles in the life sciences and medicine, but our newly launched journal PeerJ Computer Science is now open for peer-review article submissions. Take a look at our short video...
Tweet linkfest for the launch of PeerJ Computer Science
PeerJ Computer Science was announced exactly a week ago today, and since then we’ve received lots of positive commentary. So to celebrate one week since our launch we’ve rounded up a linkfest to some of the lovely tweets we’ve already received.In addition to our own...
PeerJ announces new journal: PeerJ Computer Science
We are excited to announce the launch today of a new addition to the PeerJ family: PeerJ Computer Science, a cross-disciplinary open access journal publishing articles across all fields of computer science. PeerJ PrePrints is accepting computer science preprints from...
Good morning kinematics – Author Interview
Earlier this month, we published “Effects of load on good morning kinematics and EMG activity”. In this study, Andrew Vigotsky and his colleagues examine how muscle activation and joint angles change with load in the "good morning" exercise in trained...
Can inhaled oxygen cause cancer? – Author Interview
Yesterday we published the work of Kamen Simeonov and Daniel Himmelstein in which they show a relationship between increased elevation and reduced lung cancer rates by examining publicly available data sets. After accounting for multiple factors, the findings...
Sizing up the giants that live in the ocean
Today we are very pleased to publish an amazing study by Craig McClain et al: "Sizing ocean giants: patterns of intraspecific size variation in marine megafauna". In this study, a team made up of a mix of scientists and students sifted through multiple datasets and...
Launch of PeerJ Subject Pages
Over the last few months we’ve been very busy behind the scenes taking the time to listen to all of our users, and asking them what more they’d like to see. We built PeerJ with the scientific community in mind, so it is extremely important to us that we...
Announcing a new PeerJ Spotlight Collection for our Top Animal Behavior Articles
The academic study of 'Animal Behavior' attempts to comprehend the actions and interactions of different animal species within diverse ecosystems. Ultimately, this is a field which has the potential to educate ourselves about our own behavior and our own unique place...