UK universities will now be able to centrally fund their researchers' publication plans for biological and medical sciences journal PeerJ following an agreement with Jisc. This will allow authors to publish articles in the journal for free, for life.
PeerJ is open access and affordable for both researchers and their universities. It provides academics with two open access publications: PeerJ (a peer-reviewed academic journal) and PeerJ PrePrints (a 'pre-print server'). Both cover the whole of the biological and medical sciences and the PeerJ journal peer-reviews content only for scientific and methodological soundness.
With the new arrangement, institutions pre-pay for publication plans and individuals take advantage of that pre-payment when they come to publish. As a result institutions now have an easy, frictionless, and cost-effective way to provide their faculty with a world class open access publication option.
