Yesterday we published ‘A comparison of success rates of introduced passeriform birds in New Zealand, Australia and the United States’ in which Michael Moulton and Wendell Cropper compiled lists of successful and unsuccessful passeriform introductions to...
Today we published a new study by scientists of the Maldives Whale Shark Research Programme (MWSRP) revealing that a small group of whale sharks in a single Maldivian Atoll accounts for nearly 3% of the global shark ecotourism and nearly half that of the...
In a new study published in PeerJ today, researchers compared the ‘yawn contagion’ effect between humans and bonobos. By doing so they were able to directly compare the empathic abilities of ourselves with another species, and they found that a close...
Today sees the publication of our 500th article on PeerJ: Newspaper coverage of Biobanks. That’s 500 articles now on PeerJ that are openly available to the world - the culmination of over 3,000 authors' work. And let's not forget the 443 pre-prints...
Today, we are excited to announce the publication of our 500th article! We would like to thank our Authors, Reviewers, Academic Editors, and all our supporters for helping us to reach this exciting milestone. So today, our Interview with an Author is with Prof. Ubaka...
Today we published a method for machine-aided skim reading, which outperforms tools like PubMed in terms of focused browsing and informativeness of the browsing context. We were very interested in hearing more about this tool so we invited the first author Vit Novacek...
Today we published an article which combines feature-learning – an automatic analysis technique - and a classification algorithm, to create a system that can detect which bird species are present in a large dataset. This automatic large-scale classification...
. Earlier this month, PeerJ was pleased to launch the ‘Proceedings of GNOME 2014 — Festschrift for Gaston Gonnet’ PeerJ collection. This Collection consists of contributions to a Festschrift on the occasion of the retirement of Prof. Gaston H. Gonnet. Prof. Gaston H...
You certainly couldn't miss the amazing photo of a Reef Manta Ray on our homepage a few weeks ago. Dr. Simon Pierce—marine biologist and photographer—took this picture, along with many others, whilst doing his own research. We were very interested in...
We are pleased to announce that we have secured a new round of funding led by SAGE and O’Reilly. These new investments ensure that we can keep pushing forward the pace of publishing open access articles at a low cost of entry for authors. We still maintain our...
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