PeerJ, an open access publisher of scholarly articles in the biological, life & medical sciences, has announced that with the addition of Stanford University, twenty universities have now signed up to provide PeerJ Publication Plans to their faculty. Authors from these institutions will have their publication plans automatically paid for them, using funds centrally provided by their library.
In addition to these 20 universities, numerous others have committed to supporting Open Access charges in some form and many of them also have public pages on PeerJ.
For the price of just one year of access to just one subscription journal (or a single open access publication fee at many other publishers) universities can fund the lifetime publication plans for a large number of their faculty.
More information, including Case Studies from several of these institutions can be found at https://peerj.com/edu. Any university which is interested in a similar arrangement can email PeerJ at info@peerj.com.
