The Colorado State University Libraries believes that the free exchange of information and ideas is vital to scholarly discourse. Open Access to scholarly communication accelerates the creation of knowledge while simultaneously increasing the visibility of research results. Members of the academic community share a common interest in the broadest possible dissemination of peer-reviewed literature and other products of the scholarly process.

To support the open access mission, the Colorado State University Libraries has established an institutional arrangement with PeerJ to pay the Basic Membership costs for the first 40 CSU authors whose articles are accepted for publication in PeerJ. This membership will belong to the author, even if they leave Colorado State University.

When your article is accepted for publication in PeerJ, Colorado State University affiliated authors should return to this page to submit a claim for a Basic Membership and complete the email verification.

For more information on this and other open access programs supported by Colorado State University Libraries, see http://libguides.colostate.edu/oars or contact.

*If you are taking the membership route, all authors of an accepted article must have a paid membership. https://peerj.com/pricing/#apc-membership-pricing