Did you know that you can now directly submit your preprints hosted on DIGITAL.CSIC to PCI? Check out the short video from CSIC's Library and Archive Network: www.youtube.com/shorts/tWQgs.... For more information, visit: peercommunityin.org/2024/09/18/d....

Very much enjoyed last week's meeting in Cambridge about the Publish-Review-Curate (PRC) model for scholarly publishing. There were lots of highly inspiring discussions, including an important discussion about strengthening coordination between initiatives in this area. asapbio.org/reimagining-...

The French Society for Bioinformatics (SFBI) also joined our supporters in 2025!! 🤩 www.sfbi.fr/en/

Happy to hare that the preprint I was advertising below has been published by the Journal of Evolutionary Biology: academic.oup.com/jeb/advance-... Thanks @jevbio.bsky.social for supporting responsible publishing!

PCI Statistics and Machine Learning (@pcistatml.bsky.social) is now open for submissions!! statml.peercommunityin.org For an updated list of all the thematic PCIs, visit peercommunityin.org/current-pcis/

In case you have missed Simine Vazire's excellent webinar yesterday, here is the link to watch it online: youtu.be/_vb1CNwC3CM Thanks again @simine.com for staying up so late and thanks to the audience for the great questions!

From January 1st 2026, the CNRS will cut access to one of the largest commercial bibliometric databases, Clarivate Analytics' Web of Science, along with the Core Collection and Journal Citation Reports.

Since AI slop is again all over Scientific Reports, a thread on the economics of grey-zone publishing. Why does slop keep getting published? What does it mean for science? How can we stop this? Background readings: Understand the strain: tinyurl.com/2b6wxx5r Stop the drain: tinyurl.com/3jfscscy

The first article recommended by @psych.peercommunityin.org is now published in PCJ!!

Save the date on December 1st!

1/ cOAlition S announces its 2026–2030 strategy, guided by a refreshed, shared vision: a scholarly communication system that enables rapid, open, transparent & equitable sharing of trustworthy scientific knowledge. www.coalition-s.org/coalition-s-... #OpenScience #ScholarlyComm #Plan_S #OpenAccess

Did you know that PCI is now endorsed by 35 societies and networks? Recently, the German Psychological Society has joined as one of our newest supporters! 🙏 www.dgps.de/en/about-dgps/

We wrote the Strain on scientific publishing to highlight the problems of time & trust. With a fantastic group of co-authors, we present The Drain of Scientific Publishing: a 🧵 1/n Drain: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820 Strain: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/... Oligopoly: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...

📣 Save the date for the 13th PCI webinar on December 1st, 2025, at 4 PM CET!! Simine Vazire (University of Melbourne, Australia) will present "Recognizing and responding to a replication crisis: Lessons from Psychology". For more details and registration, visit: buff.ly/wZNoD2v

We sincerely thank Erasmus University Rotterdam for their support in 2025 via the Erasmus Diamond Open Access Fund 🙏 www.eur.nl/en/library/r...

The Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA) has released “A Practical Guide to Implementing Responsible Research Assessment at Research Performing Organizations”, designed to help research performing organizations. ℹ️ Learn more at https://bit.ly/4gSzFA6 @dorassessment.bsky.social

We posted a short #OAWeek blog post yesterday, highlighting ways in which @uoylibrary.bsky.social supports external, community-led open research initiatives, including @openbookcollective.bsky.social, @peercommunityin.bsky.social , @oapenbooks.bsky.social and @proghist.bsky.social 👇

On November 4th, PCI will participate in the Open Access Week hosted by the Institut Polytechnique de Paris! For more information, visit www.ip-paris.fr/en/news/open...

Great news for #replication #research. We have our own journal now! www.uni-muenster.de/Ejournals/in... #openscience @flavioazevedo.bsky.social

Curious about becoming a PCI Psych recommender, but not sure if you should? Here's a short video with some reasons why it might be time to sign up! www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BDr... #PsychSciSky #SciPub

Well done Historical Biology! 🥳 doi.org/10.1080/0891...

Next week, PCI will be at the Open Access week organised by Johns Hopkins University: hub.jhu.edu/events/2025/... and the ACROSS Open Access week organised by the University of Perpignan: bu.univ-perp.fr/bibliotheque...

Many thanks to the University of Graz for joining the PCI supporters in 2025!✨ www.uni-graz.at/en/

Last Friday, we published the 500th article of Peer Community Journal! 🥳

We are delighted to have Durham University as one of our supporters this year. Thank you!💐 www.durham.ac.uk

Yesterday, we had the pleasure of listening to Dorothy Bishop emphasize the responsibility of editors during the 12th PCI Webinar! If you weren't able to join, you can catch her talk and the following Q&A session at this link: youtu.be/0NJ87tYE8_s

Register now for #SORTEE2025 conference! We thank our sponsors (@asn-amnat.bsky.social, @cdnsciencepub.com, @datadryad.bsky.social, @peercommunityin.bsky.social, @royalsociety.org, @sse-evolution.bsky.social, @biologists.bsky.social) who are eligible for free registration.

Hot off the heels of our what is a preprint video is our what is preprint peer review video! Featuring @prelights.bsky.social @prereview.bsky.social @reviewcommons.org, @elife.bsky.social & @peercommunityin.bsky.social #peerreview #preprint #scipub

PCI is featured in this Nature News post, which presents some ideas to help fix the peer-review system: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

It is next week! Have you registered yet?

💡 PCI recently took part in a CSE webinar focusing on the publish-review-curate model. Read about the discussions and discover innovative strategies for decentralized publishing at: www.csescienceeditor.org/article/new-...

ICYM ASAPbio seeks new board members to support our mission of driving positive change in science communication!🚀 🤝 Board members are involved in strategic planning, participate in decision-making, and engage the community to help connect ASAPbio to contacts who can help us achieve our mission.✍️ 🔬

We are thrilled to announce that PCI is now supported by the University of Bern (www.unibe.ch/index_eng.html)! 💫

PCI Ecology and PCI Evolutionary Biology have recently launched a team of data editors who are implementing the SORTEE guidelines for new submissions. Other PCIs may join soon. Expressions of interest from potential new data editors are welcome!

📣 Save the date for the 12th PCI webinar on September 18, 2025, at 4 PM CET!! Dorothy Bishop (@deevybee.bsky.social) will present "Editors matter: How negligent publishers subvert quality control in scientific publishing ". For more details and registration, visit:

Many thanks to Karlstad University for becoming a supporter of PCI this year (www.kau.se/en)%F0%9F%98...!

The Association for Psychological Science and its journal AMPPS recently spotlighted PCI in two news articles💫!! You can find them here: www.psychologicalscience.org/publications... and here: www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...

Check out the SORTEE @sortee.bsky.social guidelines for data & code checks in E&E journals 🤩! We have been implementing these at @peercommunityin.bsky.social and we hope others will follow suit. Also very interesting from an author's perspective 😉

PCI is at the Ecology & Behaviour 2025 @ecobhvr2025.bsky.social conference this week! If you're curious about the PCI initiative, Barbara Class will be happy to answer any questions you may have on Wednesday morning ☕

Many thanks to the University of Göttingen for supporting PCI in 2025! 🤩 www.uni-goettingen.de/en/1.html

Stockholm University (@stockholm-uni.bsky.social) is joining the ranks of PCI's new sponsors for 2025! 😊 www.su.se/english/

Why link preprints and their peer reviews? Read this post from Kathleen Shearer (COAR @coar-repositories.bsky.social): coar-repositories.org/news-updates...

PCI is proud to welcome the Universidade do Minho - Unidade de Serviços de Documentação e Bibliotecas (USDB) as one of its new supporters 🥳 www.usdb.uminho.pt/pt

Explore how PCI is spotlighted in this Le Monde piece, which outlines the challenges in academic publishing and discusses alternative paths. The full article (for subscribers): buff.ly/sGnBWp8. #ScholarlyPublishing #LeMonde

Biology Open's editorial on a decade of preprints in biology. Check it out here: journals.biologists.com/bio/article/...

#Nouveauté // “Psychology”, la nouvelle section de la revue “Peer Community Journal”, est désormais en ligne ! 👉 www.uga-editions.com/uga-editions... 👏 Diffusion : centre Mersenne en collaboration avec UGA Éditions ! @ugrenoblealpes.bsky.social @centre-mersenne.bsky.social

This year, PCI is also supported by the University of Lausanne & BCUL via their revolutionary Diamond Open Access Fund! What a great way to support diamond OA journals!😍 ⭐ www.bcu-lausanne.ch/en/blog-libr...

A very important document by the European University Association, which clearly outlines the current challenges in scholarly communication and highlights ways to move forward! You can access it at: www.eua.eu/publications...

PCI was interviewed by Damon Orion, a writer for the Local Peace Economy media. Don’t miss the fantastic blog article here! 👇 observatory.wiki/How_Academic...

We are delighted to share that the ETH Zürich Library has become a supporter of PCI!🎉