Milestones: OA Publisher PeerJ Celebrates First Anniversary of Publications Today

The first articles from PeerJ were published online one year ago today (Feb. 12, 2013) after the OA publisher formally launched on June 12, 2012.

Here’s our roundup of coverage from that day.

Today, PeerJ’s Sophie Kusy conducts a brief interview with co-founders Jason Hoyt and Peter Binfield.

Also online today is a Creative Commons News post about the first year of PeerJ that includes a number of stats.

For example:

• Peer J Published 232 Articles Under CC-BY 3.0 Last Year

• Peer J Currently Has About 800 Academic Editors

• Last Month (Jan. 2014) PeerJ moved to CC BY 4.0 for all articles newly submitted from that point onwards (prior articles remain under CC BY 3.0)

• The Top Three Subject Areas For Articles Are:
  • Ecology
  • Bioinformatics
  • Evolutionary Studies

Read the href=”http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/41983″>Complete CC Blog Post

Some Of Our Past Coverage and Other Material

• Stanford Becomes 20th Institution With PeerJ Publication Plan (February 11, 2014)

• PeerJ Becomes Associate Member of Open Scholarly Publishers Association

• PeerJ Preserves with the CLOCKSS Archive

• A September 2013 Podcast Interview with Peter Binfield (via The Scholarly Kitchen)