Stories by Jason Hoyt and Peter Binfield

As Chief Scientist / VP of R&D at Mendeley, Jason Hoyt ran the data mining group that scaled their growth to crowd source more than 150m academic documents in just 2 years. Pete Binfield has 20 years of academic publishing experience. Most recently he led PLOS ONE at the Public Library of Science. Follow Jason Hoyt and Peter Binfield on Twitter @ThePeerJ

The Sciences

Who Killed the PrePrint, and Could It Make a Return?

It was 1859 and “On the Origin of Species” was published by Charles Darwin. Within 10 years, a new journal arose with the simple name of “Nature” and with the ambition to be a liberal publication that went against the grain in its scientific views and editorial model...

April 3, 2013 — Jason Hoyt and Peter Binfield