Topic summary
PeerJ PrePrints
Extracted from the Wikipedia article PeerJ.
Business model
PeerJ uses a for profitbusiness model that differs from traditional publishers – in that no subscription fees are charged to its readers – and initially differed from the major open-access publishers in that publication fees were not levied per article but per publishing researcher and at a much lower level. PeerJ also offered a preprint service named PeerJ Preprints (launched on April 3, 2013 and discontinued in September 2019). The low costs were said to be in part achieved by using cloud infrastructure: both PeerJ and PeerJ Preprints run on Amazon EC2, with the content stored on Amazon S3.