September 2013: The UC Berkeley Library has entered into a partnership with PeerJ, a new fully peer-reviewed, open access (OA) journal in the biological, medical and health sciences. Under the terms of this partnership, when a paper by a Berkeley author is accepted for publication in PeerJ, the Berkeley Library will automatically pay the cost of a Basic Membership for each Berkeley author. That membership will allow authors to publish one PeerJ article every year, for life, for free.
About PeerJ: PeerJ is a new open-access, peer-reviewed, scholarly journal which publishers research articles in the biological sciences, medical sciences and health sciences. PeerJ maintains rigorous peer-review standards and is committed to rapid review and fast publication of research results. PeerJ selects articles “based only on a determination of scientific and methodological soundness, not on subjective determinations of ‘impact,’ ‘novelty’ or ‘interest.'” Articles are easily discovered in Google Scholar as well as PubMed and PubMed Central. Unlike many OA publications which charge authors per publication, PeerJ provides low-cost memberships to individuals, which gives them lifetime rights to publish in PeerJ. All authors on a paper must have a ‘paid Membership.’
For more information about the UC Berkeley/PeerJ membership, contact the Library’s Scholarly Communications Officer.