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Biomedical journal and publisher hope to bring preprints to life : Nature Medicine : Nature Publishing Group

Harold Varmus is still waiting for the revolution. In a 1999 proposal he later described as a “manifesto,” the then director of the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) suggested creating an electronic repository to host freely accessible research papers, including manuscripts prior to their formal publication. The next year, a version of Varmus’s proposal spawned PubMed Central, a digital archive where all papers stemming from NIH-funded research must be submitted within 12 months of publication. However, the agency never created one key aspect of Varmus’ ultimate vision: a preprint portal.
Nature Medicine.

Interview with PeerJ Editor Fabiana Kubke

This is the second in our Series of Interviews with PeerJ Editors, giving them a voice to express their thoughts about academic publishing, open access and PeerJ. This time around we spoke to Fabiana Kubke who is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Medical Sciences (Department of Anatomy with Radiology) and a member of the Centre for Brain Research at the University of Auckland in New Zealand.

Publisher of PLoS ONE moves to new Open-Access initiative

Publisher of PLoS ONE moves to new Open-Access initiative

Peter Binfield leaves PLoS ONE to start PeerJ.

After four years of dedicated service and steady leadership, Peter Binfield, Publisher of PLoS ONE, will be leaving us on May 18th.  Under his stewardship, PLoS ONE has grown into the largest peer reviewed journal in the world. In the process, PLoS ONE has pioneered new editorial models that are being widely adopted by many publishers.  We part on the best of terms – Pete is leaving to start his own company, and so we wish him well in this new Open Access Initiative.

PeerJ

PeerJ

A new open access publishing model starts in Fall 2012. 

PeerJ is establishing a new sustainability model. Researchers will be able to purchase Lifetime Memberships, starting at just $99, giving them the rights to publish their articles in our peer reviewed journal. All published articles are made freely available to the public. Subscription fees made sense in a pre-Internet world, but now they just slow the progress of science. It’s time to change that.