PeerJ and Academic Publishing Organisations - PeerJ Blog

"Now that PeerJ is fully open for submissions we thought that readers might be interested in learning about some of the work that went on behind the scenes to get us here. PeerJ is a part of the academic publishing ecosystem, and as such there are a number of ‘industry’ groups which are essential for us to work with – groups whose services will help us publish articles in an effective and ‘industry standard’ manner. Broadly these groups provide solutions for 'unique identifiers' and 'long term archiving', or they represent professional organizations. Therefore, this is the first in a three part series of blog posts which will describe some of the groups we have been working with, or expect to work with, as we move forwards. PeerJ and Professional Organizations The academic publishing industry has a long history of course, and as such it has many well established professional organizations which most academic publishers associate themselves with. However, it is interesting to know that there are a number of ‘newer’ organizations which are also establishing themselves in this space, and of course PeerJ is looking to work with them as well. Three examples that are worth highlighting (each contributing different things into the mix) are ORCID, OASPA, and COPE ... "