PeerJ has announced an agreement with University of Kansas (KU) Libraries to join its Three-Year Memberships Program, giving their faculty a high-quality and sustainable Open Access publishing option. Under the agreement, which provides an alternative to Article Processing Charges (APCs) for OA, KU Libraries will cover the cost of Three-Year Memberships in their entirety, which means that there will be no out-of-pocket fees for KU authors to publish in any of PeerJ’s journals.
The team at KU Libraires see PeerJ Memberships for what they are: beneficial to their researchers, and a cost-effective approach to Open Access that provides an alternative to traditional APCs. PeerJ renewed the partnership, under a new membership model, with KU.
Three Year Memberships, priced at $239 per author, are valid from the date of an author’s first publication and for a further 36 months, during which they can publish two further articles at no additional cost, giving authors more flexibility as to when they publish. When authors use their full complement of three publications, the per-author cost borne by KU Libraries averages out at under $80/article. Under the agreement, any co-authors must hold a PeerJ Membership in order to publish; any Lifetime Memberships held by KU-affiliated authors remain valid.
The Membership options provide the best value for money to researchers who want to publish Open Access, and to continue working with KU researchers who choose to publish in any of the seven journals.
The University of Kansas become the sixth institution to join the program, along with UC Berkeley, the University of Ottawa, Iowa State University, the University of Sussex and Western University.
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