Open access publisher PeerJ has announced that researchers now have the option to pay a fixed (U.S.) $695 per article fee ('APC') to publish in PeerJ, a peer-reviewed Open Access journal in biology, medicine, and the life sciences. This option is also available to the new PeerJ Computer Science journal and represents one of the lowest APCs amongst similar classes of Open Access journals in academia.
Timing the announcement with the start of Open Access Week (a global celebration of open access publication in academia), the original PeerJ membership pricing remains in place, and authors can still pay a one off fee for the ability to publish for free thereafter.
PeerJ has priced the APC to be amongst the lowest in the industry for the class of service that researchers receive at PeerJ. At $695, it is hundreds or even thousands of dollars less than comparable multidisciplinary journals which charge $1,100 – $3,000 for Open Access.
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