[open-science] PeerJ, A New Open Access Megajournal Launches

Thu Feb 14 00:23:23 UTC 2013

They cover a lot of those questions on their
website<https://peerj.com/about/FAQ/>.
Yes, it's a one-time payment, but you do need to submit at least one
"review" per year, very broadly interpreted ("an informal comment on a
submission to *PeerJ PrePrints*; a formally requested peer-review of a
paper submitted to *PeerJ*; or an informal comment on a published paper").
And for papers with more than 12 authors, only 12 need to be paying members.

Patrik

On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 3:27 PM, Thomas Kluyver <takowl at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 13 February 2013 18:49, Bryan Bishop <kanzure at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> What are the prices? We launched on Tuesday, if you become a basic
>> member, that's $99 and that's a lifetime right to publish one paper a year
>> with the journal. That remains to be seen. I think, we're pretty confident.
>> Enhanced is $199 and that's 2 papers/year. The $300 is the right to publish
>> an unlimited number of papers per year. You can upgrade at any point, the
>> catch is that all contributory authors have to be a member. Each of the
>> authors on the paper have to be a member in good standing. So all their
>> future papers are free. There is also this requirement to do a review every
>> year per member.
>
>
> This is a very interesting model. To be clear, are the quoted prices a
> one-off payment rather than an annual fee? And if a member doesn't keep up
> their reviewing, can they regain good standing just by doing a review, or
> will they pay to join again?
>
> On the other hand, I wonder if the requirement for every author to be a
> member will be an obstacle in fields where papers can have dozens of
> authors. If, say, 20 authors on a paper needed to become members, both the
> cost and the extra admin (if it needs 20 separate payments) would be less
> attractive than an article publication charge.
>
> Thanks,
> Thomas
>
>
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