PeerJ has received the 2013 ALPSP (Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers) Award for Publishing Innovation. The competition was strong, with 32 entrants and 5 finalists - PeerJ, Altmetric, Drama Online, FigShare, and Nature ENCODE.
PeerJ was announced in June 2012 with the goal of establishing a highly credible, high quality, peer-reviewed Open Access journal for as low a cost as possible. This has resulted in the creation of a model which provides authors with lifetime memberships for $99, giving them the ability to freely publish their open access articles for the rest of their life.
By doing so, PeerJ is demonstrating that it doesn't have to cost thousands, either through subscription charges or Open Access fees, to publish quality science.
