Celebrating Open Access Week 2014 affords an opportunity to study and promote all aspects of ‘Open.’ One of the things that we are most proud of at PeerJ is the feature for reviewers to name themselves, and for authors to optionally publish the back-and-forth dialogue...
Celebrate Open Access Week with us – Free publication in PeerJ until Dec 19th 2014
Offer now extended to December 19th (end of term) due to popular demand. What: Free publication for your peer-reviewed PeerJ articles! How: Submit the article as both a preprint, to PeerJ PrePrints, and a formal peer-reviewed article to PeerJ. The preprint must go...
Cranial osteology of Tyrannoneustes – Author Interview
Today’s Interview with an Author is with Davide Foffa, first author on “The cranial osteology of Tyrannoneustes lythrodectikos (Crocodylomorpha: Metriorhynchidae) from the Middle Jurassic of Europe”, an article that we published last week. We were...
Nest-building behavior of Monk Parakeets – Author Interview
Today we published a new study describing the nest-building behavior of Monk Parakeets. This work suggests that intervention during the earlier stages of nest building, by excluding Monk Parakeets from electric lines adjacent to poles, may be an effective, non-lethal...
Research Update – Bacterial curli protein and amyloid sequences
Last year, PeerJ published “Bacterial curli protein promotes the conversion of PAP248-286 into the amyloid SEVI: cross-seeding of dissimilar amyloid sequences”. Over a year has passed since that publication, and the article has already been cited several...
PeerJ responds to request from US Federal Government on challenge of reproducibility in science
This week, as part of the request from The Office of Science and Technology Policy and the National Economic Council for public comments to provide input into an upcoming update of the Strategy for American Innovation, PeerJ offered a response in answer to the...
Guest post – Sequence the sputum: using metagenomics to diagnose tuberculosis
Today, PeerJ is pleased to publish the work of Prof. Mark Pallen and his group, in which they describe a new DNA sequencing method to diagnose tuberculosis. Mark Pallen, Professor of Microbial Genomics and Head of the Microbiology and Infection Unit at the Warwick...
Atypical early histories on pet or performer chimpanzees – Author Interview
Today, we published the result of a multi-institutional research showing that chimpanzees raised primarily around humans with less experience around their own species during the first four years of life, tend to show reduced social competencies as adults than those...
Save the date: participative Bay Area OA week event for Generation Open
Join us as we join forces with ScienceOpen, ZappyLab and My Science Work (and others to be announced) to celebrate OA with a participative event at Open Access Week in the Bay Area. A core group initiated by Liz Allen (ScienceOpen), including Lenny...
Research Update – Squirrel monkey social learning
Last year, we published “Dissecting the mechanisms of squirrel monkey (Saimiri boliviensis) social learning”, an important article which received good attention from the community. As you can see, this article has already been cited several times, and the...









