New $695 Open Access APC option at PeerJ | PeerJ Blog

"We’re pleased to announce that from today, researchers will have the option to pay a fixed (U.S.) $695 per article fee (APC) to publish in PeerJ, the award winning peer-reviewed Open Access journal in biology, medicine, and the life sciences. This option will also be available to the new PeerJ Computer Science journal. This represents one of the lowest APCs amongst similar classes of Open Access journals in academia. Notice that we said 'the option of an APC.' That’s because researchers still have the choice of purchasing one of our low cost Membership Plans. So, why the addition of a fixed APC charge? We have three reasons: A surprising number of government and institutional researchers are prohibited from holding multi-year or personal memberships (or at least obtaining reimbursement for them). This means researchers are either paying out of pocket or forgo publishing in journals like PeerJ that only offer memberships. For these researchers, the only available option when it comes to paying for Open Access is often a per article fee, i.e. the APC. Our Mission is to make publishing high quality Open Access as cost efficient as possible for researchers. With this low cost APC, papers that have a large number of authors do not need to worry about spending as much money – they’ll potentially be saving hundreds of dollars compared to the Membership price for each author. Not everyone wants the Membership or to convince their co-authors to buy one. We recognize that a simple fixed fee that the APC represents is easier to explain to others or receive funding reimbursement ..."