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1. Academic Publishing is Evolving…
Innovation @ PeerJ
Pete Binfield
Co-Founder and Publisher
PeerJ
@ThePeerJ
www.PeerJ.com
@p_binfield
pete@peerj.com

2. Academic Publishing is Evolving…

3. Academic Publishing is Evolving…
• Winner of the 2013 ALPSP Award for Publishing
Innovation
• Named as one of the top 10 Educational
Technology Innovators of 2013 by the Chronicle of
Higher Education
Creating natural incentives & structures that
encourage good / positive behaviour
Our ‘Big Picture’ Innovation

4. Academic Publishing is Evolving…
1. Editorial criteria which judges articles only on
scientific soundness;
2. A very broad subject scope;
3. An open access model employing a payment
model in which each article pays its own costs
PLOS ONE’s Big Leap
They successfully separated the ‘decision to
publish’ from the evaluation of ‘quality’ / ‘impact’

5. Academic Publishing is Evolving…
New Innovators

7. Academic Publishing is Evolving…
1. Entirely new business model
- Based around individuals
2. ‘Optional’ Open Peer Review
3. Built in reputation system
- Stack overflow style
4. A pre-print server – PeerJ PrePrints
- Tightly integrated with a peer-reviewed journal
5. User friendly and actually beautiful!
6. Custom built software platform
- Submission, peer-review, publication
7. Pushing the envelope, not breaking it…
‘Specific’ Innovations at PeerJ

8. Academic Publishing is Evolving…
The PeerJ Model –
Pay Once, Publish For Life

9. Academic Publishing is Evolving…
‘Optional’ Open Peer-Review

10. http://blog.peerj.com/post/100580518238/whos-afraid-of-open-peer-review
• ~40% of peer-reviewers
name themselves
• ~80% of authors reproduce
their peer review history

11. Academic Publishing is Evolving…
• Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics - Reviewers comments
published on pre-pub discussion site. Reviewer names optional.
• Biology Direct - Reviewer comments published, and reviewers
named
• BMJ Open - All reviewers named, all reports public
• eLife - Decision letter published with articles with author
approval. Reviewers anonymous, but editor named.
• EMBO journal - Review process file published with articles.
Reviewers anonymous, editor named.
• F1000Research - All reviewers named, all reports public.
• Frontiers journals - Reviewers named, but reports not public
• GigaScience - Pre-publication history published with articles,
and reviewers named. (encouraged, opt-out)
• Medical journals in the BMC series - Pre-publication history
published with articles, and reviewers named (encouraged).
• PeerJ - Peer review history published with articles with author
approval. Reviewers encouraged to sign report.
Journals Practicing Open Peer-Review

12. Academic Publishing is Evolving…
Contribution ‘Points’

13. Academic Publishing is Evolving…
PeerJ Q&A

14. Academic Publishing is Evolving…
Reputation System

15. Academic Publishing is Evolving…
PeerJ PrePrints

16. Academic Publishing is Evolving…
Creating natural incentives and structures
that encourage good / positive behaviour
1. Entirely new business model
- Based around individuals
2. ‘Optional’ Open Peer Review
3. Built in reputation system
- Stack overflow style
4. A pre-print server – PeerJ PrePrints
- Tightly integrated with a peer-reviewed journal
5. User friendly and actually beautiful!
6. Custom built software platform
- Submission, peer-review, publication
7. Pushing the envelope, not breaking it…

17. Academic Publishing is Evolving…
Informal
feedback / Q&A
Evaluation /
ALMs
Formal
optional open
peer-review
Contribution
points / profile
pages

18. everything evolves
…even publishing
Thank You
Pete Binfield
Co-Founder & Publisher, PeerJ