PeerJ is a year old tomorrow! | Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week #AcademicSpring

"Looks like the first ever mention of PeerJ on this blog was a year and nine days ago. All we said in that first post was '… the proliferation of other publishing experiments such as F1000 Research and PeerJ …' with no further comment. That was just before the formal launch of PeerJ, which was on 12 June. A little more than two months later, Matt bought all-you-can-eat membership so he’d never have to think about it again. Three months on and we were enjoying the reference-formatting instructions (yes, really!) A few days after that — on 3rd December, the day it opened to submissions — we sent in what became our neck anatomy paper. They turned it around quickly enough to be in the first batch of articles on 12 February this year, for an impressive submission-to-publication time of two months and some silver. Since then it’s cropped up all the time on SV-POW! — and for all the obvious reasons. Matt and I both see it as a game-changer, eating academic journals from 'below', and preprint servers and scholarly blogs from 'above'. It’s certainly had an eventful year! We wish it all the best in its second year. And its third, fourth and fifth years, and all the ones after that."