As part of our involvement in this year's OpenCon we supported an early career researcher with their travel fees to the event. Jon Tennant was nominated by OpenCon to receive our travel grant, and as a big advocate of OA and already published in PeerJ...
It’s a double celebration for our homepage launch!
We’re in celebratory mood here at PeerJ – not only does today see the launch of our brand new home page, but also by way of celebration and due to popular demand, we are extending our offer to publish your article free for another four weeks until December...
Results of the Second PeerJ Author Survey
It is nearly two years since we began publishing PeerJ articles since our launch in February 2013, and with the recent announcement that PeerJ is to be included in the Web of Science we felt it would be a good time to take stock and conduct another Author Survey to...
PeerJ at OpenCon 2014
PeerJ is delighted to be taking part in this year’s OpenCon, both in talks and panel discussions by Peter Binfield (Co-founder of PeerJ), and by supporting an early career researcher with their travel fees to the event. OpenCon 2014 is the student and early...
3D reconstruction of extinct arachnids – Author Interview
Note: Through the end of November, PeerJ is offering free publishing, - if you like what you read in this blog post, then try us out now for free!. Today we published a new study describing the three-dimensional reconstruction and the phylogeny of extinct arachnid...
Déjà vu experience – Author Interview
Today we published a new study describing a laboratory analogue of the déjà vu experience. We invited the lead author, Akira O’Connor, to comment on his fascinating research and his experience publishing with us. PJ: Can you tell us a bit about...
The structure of people’s hair – Author Interview
Today’s Interview with an Author is with Maikel Rheinstädter, corresponding author on “The structure of people’s hair”, an article that we published last month. We were very interested in hearing more about his research and his experience...
Crabs vs. sea stars – Author Interview
Today’s ‘Interview with an Author’ is with Seabird McKeon, first author on ‘Species and size diversity in protective services offered by coral guard-crabs’, an article that we published last month and featured on our homepage. This work...
Announcing a new PeerJ Spotlight Collection for our Top Paleontology Articles
Paleontology, the study of life which existed prior to the Holocene Epoch, is a topic which fascinates both trained scientists and the general public. To showcase the outstanding paleontology research currently being published in PeerJ we have created a new "PeerJ...
PeerJ to be indexed in Web of Science
We are pleased to announce that PeerJ will soon be included in the Web of Science (WoS), an important indexing site, widely used by the scientific community for article search and discovery. We welcome additional coverage in all indexing services that enable our...









