New Journal Publisher PeerJ Ready to Launch

Use the link to access the interview introduced as follows: "Among startup academic publishers, there are few more innovative than PeerJ, an upstart open access journal for biomedical and life sciences literature. PeerJ runs on an author membership model instead of using a more traditional 'author pays' (APC) approach, and its attempt to re-engineer scholarly publishing could dramatically lowers costs for producing and distributing academic articles. PeerJ authors become lifetime members with a single payment ranging from $99.00 to $299.00, receiving the right to submit a varying number of articles to PeerJ. In contrast, pioneering open access PLoS One charges authors $1,350.00 per accepted manuscript, although fees are waived for those who cannot afford to pay. I've written about PeerJ previously, but with the launch of their first issue imminent, I was fortunate to ask Pete Binfield and Jason Hoyt, the founders of PeerJ, a few broader questions about their journal, its features, and how they are thinking about the future..."