Looking for a place to submit your finished paper? We propose a totally free and transparent initiative! Made by archaeologists for archaeologists. Follow the steps below! 🏺🧪

1/3 New recommendation: Lien-Talks A. G. W. (2025). Heritage Data Governance in Regeneration: Lessons from England's High Street Heritage Action Zones. V3 peer-reviewed and recommended by PCI Archaeology doi.org/10.5281/zeno... @alientalks.bsky.social

1/3 New recommendation: Luo Hongpeng & He Jie (2025). An Exploratory Framework of Land-Sea Movement Model for Early Austronesians Migration. V3 peer-reviewed and recommended by PCI Archaeology doi.org/10.5281/zeno... 🧪🏺

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

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

1/3 New recommendation: Miranda A. Evans‬ (2025) The Demodifier: a tool for screening modification-induced alternate peptide taxonomy in palaeoproteomics. ver.4 recommended by @pciarchaeology.bsky.social doi.org/10.1101/2025... 🧪🏺🦣

The deadline has been extended to October 15 for your CAA2025 papers! Since the proceedings will go through our free and transparent process, do not forget that you *must* share data and scripts if you have some. Everything is explained here: 2025.caaconference.org/proceedings/ 🏺🦣🧪

PCI Archaeology was at @isba11.bsky.social in Turin last week! Stay tuned for new #openaccess biomolecular papers soon with full transparency in the editorial process! Thank you @matthewcollins.bsky.social and Marta Arzarello for sharing our initiative! @isbarchaeology.bsky.social 🧪🏺🦣

Make sure to register! The past webinars have been super interesting, and this one should be no different. 🧪 #openscience #peerreview #academicpublishing

As grant money starts drying up, it's more important than ever not to waste it on paying publishers' open access "article processing fees" when we can host PDFs for free. Tom Morgan and I wrote a paper on this, forthcoming at Science and Public Policy. Accepted draft here: osf.io/preprints/os...

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1/3 New recommendation: Kawano, K., @itagakim.bsky.social, Fujita, H., Yamamoto, R., Takeuchi, T. & Ochiai, H. (2025). Statistical image processing (Decorrelation Stretch) and deep learning (CycleGANs) to restore images of faded artworks. doi.org/10.5281/zeno... 🏺🧪

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1/3 New recommendation: Zachary Batist‬ (2025) Locating Creative Agency in Archaeological Data Work. ver.2 recommended by @pciarchaeology.bsky.social doi.org/10.17613/8eq... @zackbatist.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy 🏺🧪🦣

Delighted to be bringing you the following PAASTA community-led paper outlining our recommendations for best practices and open science in palaeoproteomics! Congratulations to the authors and for anyone keen to read the paper, it can be found #OpenAccess here: doi.org/10.24072/pcj...

1/4 New recommendation: Marc THOMAS‬ (2025) fabryka: A web application for easily analysing & exploring the fabric of archaeological assemblages. doi.org/10.5281/zeno... 🏺🧪 @umr5608traces.bsky.social

Coming soon! The proceedings from the @caaint.bsky.social 2023 including all the papers which have gone through our free and transparent peer-review and recommendation process! Very nice cover!

1/3 New recommendation: Igor P. Bajena (2025). OntPreHer3D: Ontology for Preservation of Cultural Heritage 3D Models. v2 peer-reviewed and recommended by PCI Archaeology doi.org/10.5281/zeno... 🏺🧪

1/4 New recommendation: @ronaldvisser.bsky.social‬, K. Lambers, @aitchis1.bsky.social‬, A. Jutte, D. Rocks-Macqueen, L. vanderKnaap, I. Romanowska, T. Brughmans, J. Linssen, A. Pažout‬(2025) Lessons learned: creating tutorials to teach agent-based modelling to archaeologists. doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

1/3 New recommendation: Cardillo, Marcelo & Carranza, Eugenia ‬ (2025) Applying statistical and causal modeling to interpret thermal alteration in observational lithic data. doi.org/10.5281/zeno... 🧪🏺

Exciting news for archaeometallurgists! Historical Metallurgy is now a Category 1 PCI-Friendly journal! When recommended by @pciarchaeology.bsky.social, your manuscript will be published as is if it fits the journal’s scope! 🧪🏺#Archaeology

Imagine if you make preprints and have them freely and transparently peer review with @peercomjournal.bsky.social ? 😇😇

The DAFNEE database of academia-friendly journals is now using OpenAlex instead of PubMed to find your papers for the author index. That's great especially for #archaeology since most are not indexed in PubMed. Go see the second tab on dafnee.isem-evolution.fr ! @nicolasgaltier.bsky.social 🏺🧪

Time to publish etically, and to let others know! 6/6 #EvolutionaryBiology #Ecology #Archaeology

Needless to say, the Peer Community In outperforms all of the major publishers on this criterion, despite a budget many orders of magnitude smaller - again illustrating that the big money we pay for publishing is not used for the good of science. (5/5) @peercommunityin.bsky.social

Non-profit publishers (PLoS, Oxford, Cambridge) and publishers partnering a lot with academia (Wiley) are much more committed to open science than the others - MDPI being the worst by large. (4/5)

New preprint about open science in eco-evo! We sampled 110 journals, 550 articles, and assessed whether data and code are accessible: (1/5) ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v... #ScientificPublishing #OpenScience #ecology #conservation #EvolutionaryBiology #paleobio #systematics #archeology

Our next event is "Demystifying Digital Field Recording", a free online panel exploring the hot topics in digital field recording! The panel takes place next Wednesday 23 July, 6pm AEST, make sure to register at the link: events.humanitix.com/demystifying...

😱 I did not hear about this before. If only people would acknowledge that making the full process of evaluation transparent would really help. All these suspected papers from paper mills: can we read the reviews, and the answers to reviewers etc? It would help a lot!

And still probably the proceedings will go through our free and transparent peer review system!

🚨 Call for Sessions is OPEN! 📍 CAA 2026 – Vienna 🗓️ Deadline: 17 August 2025 Got a great session idea in digital archaeology? We want to hear from you! 🔗 2026.caaconference.org/call-for-ses... #CAA2026 #CAAConf #DigitalArchaeology #CallForSessions

How we use game mechanics to explore and educate about archaeology in our board game Cultivaria- a thread. #archaeology #boardgame

Just learned today that all Nature's published research papers will now have their peer-reviews accessible! #openpeerreview is becoming mainstream! doi.org/10.1038/d415... But if you want to make it for free you can still come to us instead of this big commercial publisher... 😜

With mention of @peercommunityin.bsky.social , @peercomjournal.bsky.social and @pci-regreports.bsky.social ! Trying to change this system!

Thank you @unil.bsky.social and @ebcul.bsky.social !

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...

We are thrilled to join PCI Archaeology! 🤗 From now on, our #EnvironmentalArchaeology journal will always keep a “varia” issue open to receive articles from the Peer Community In Archaeology, alongside our usual thematic issues ✨

🏺🧪Is that a potential journal for the #archaeogaming community? Prepare your Registered Report ! @archaeobasti.bsky.social @docrandom.bsky.social @adreinhard.bsky.social @tinerassalle.bsky.social @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy @gamingthepast.bsky.social

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

A new PCI-friendly journal in #Archaeology where you can submit your paper after our free and transparent evaluation! They will answer rapidly (<5 days) if they will accept it with minor modifications, with further peer review, or if they are not interested. 🏺 www.openscience.fr/Archeologie-...

1/3 New recommendation: Catalán González, F. J. ‬ (2025) The application of graphic visualization filters for historical-archaeological studies. A case study: "Mesas del Esparragal", Alcalá De Los Gazules, Cádiz (Spain). doi.org/10.5281/zeno... #Archaeology 🧪🏺

You can now watch the recording of Brandon Stell's PCI webinar! ⏯️ Check it out here youtu.be/PXshwcUmTog?...

Here’s a CNRS offer to come to PACEA. It’s a multi-year contract that at the end will turn into a permanent Senior Researcher position if objectives are met. So if you’re a several years post PhD and a specialist in paleoenvironments, geoarchaeology, and human adaptation give it a look!

New preprint about an database of ethical journals including more than 100 🏺 archaeology journals! And you can even see directly if they are PCI-Friendly! A way to be informed about and choose the journals you publish in! doi.org/10.32942/X24...

Welcome the University of Cambridge as a new support of @peercommunityin.bsky.social ! Dear colleagues from @cambridgearch.bsky.social & @cam-archaeology.bsky.social do not hesitate anymore to submit your work to our free and transparent system of preprints peer-reviewing! 🏺🧪

🥁Today at 4pm CET!

Apparently all Wiley journals are now "PCI-hostile". Dear fellow #archaeology researcher, if you're enthusiastic about open peer-review, preprints, and open science in general, consider other publishers for your future work (especially if you want to be recommended by PCI Archaeology first!) 🏺🧪

Welcome to the team Univ. Mlebourne! @rachel.popelka.filcoff.com , @touremily.bsky.social @arcas.org.au

Exciting update across all @peercommunityin.bsky.social websites! Now, every review, editorial decision, and author response has its own DOI. This allows for citation of each step if necessary and helps in recognizing the contributions of everyone involved in our 🆓 and transparent evaluation process