What’s All the Fuss About Open Access?

May 28, 2013

Cofounder of PeerJ to give seminar on campus June 4

Speaker: Peter Binfield, PhD
Publisher of PeerJ (formerly of PLOS ONE)

Date: Tuesday June 4
Time: 12.00 noon
Location: 489 Minor Hall, UC Berkeley
Host: Suzanne Fleiszig

Thanks to the Internet, the last ten years have seen huge innovation and experimentation in the academic publishing world.

The most visible change has been in the rise of the Open Access movement, which has given birth to new and innovative journals such as PLOS ONE, PeerJ, F1000 RPeter Binfield Photoesearch and eLife. Publication in an open access format is increasingly recognized as being a good thing for researchers, authors and readers. As Open Access gains wider adoption, new developments such as article-level metrics, Open Peer Review and preprint servers are being rolled out to enhance the entire process of scholarly publication.

Joins us for a seminar by Pete Binfield (previously the Publisher of PLOS ONE, and now the Publisher and Co-Founder of PeerJ) as he provides an overview of the current landscape of Open Access publications; highlights some of the more innovative models that are being tested in the marketplace; and talks about items such as article level metrics and open peer review, and shows how these new developments can benefit researchers and authors.

Speaker Biography

Peter Binfield is the Co-Founder and Publisher of PeerJ. PeerJ publishes a journal of the same name, and a pre-print server (PeerJ PrePrints) in the biological and medical fields. PeerJ has generated considerable interest in the publishing community due to its extremely low cost for authors as well as for its cutting edge functionality. Several Berkeley faculty are on the Editorial Board of PeerJ, alongside an Editorial Board of 800 and an Advisory Board of 20 (which includes 5 Nobel Laureates). Before launching PeerJ, Pete was the Publisher of PLOS ONE for 4 years, overseeing its growth to become the largest journal in the world (now publishing 2% of the global literature). Pete is based in the Bay Area – he has a PhD in physics, and has been in the publishing industry for 20 years, having worked at the Institute of Physics, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Springer, SAGE, PLOS and now PeerJ.
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