Open access publisher PeerJ has announced the publication of its first peer-reviewed articles in PeerJ Computer Science, a new cross-disciplinary open access journal publishing articles across all fields of computer science. PeerJ Computer Science first started accepting preprints and submissions for peer-reviewed articles in February this year, and the journal publishes its first articles on May 27th.
Interested authors and readers can visit peerj.com/computer-science to find out more about the journal, and its over 300 Editorial and Advisory Board (which includes many high profile computer scientists such as Vint Cerf, Wendy Hall, David Patterson and Mary Shaw). PeerJ is offering free publication credits until August 3, 2015, to all those who register at this page, and also to their colleagues simply by providing their email details.
As part of this aim to improve publishing for the computer science community, PeerJ Computer Science recently announced an open access publishing partnership with USENIX - the Advanced Computing Systems Association, whereby their members and conference delegates are encouraged to publish their research in the journal.
PeerJ Computer Science operates in exactly the same way as PeerJ (the biology focussed journal) – articles are published through CC BY licensing ensuring that the content is freely accessible to the world. The business model also remains the same with authors paying a low cost fee to publish their article, starting at $99 for lifetime publication. By publishing cross-disciplinary research across the full spectrum of computer science, PeerJ Computer Science hopes to engender more cross-fertilisation between fields and to become a hub for the computer science community as a whole to interact.
The first articles to publish in PeerJ Computer Science cover a broad spectrum of computer science research and can be accessed at peerj.com/computer-science.
