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: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/tWQgsFTl8hg. For more information, visit […] [Original post on ecoevo.social]

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

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

RE: https://ecoevo.social/@PeerCommunityJournal/115644324820044446 The first article recommended by PCI Psychology is now published in PCJ!!

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

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! 🙏 https://www.dgps.de/en/about-dgps/

📣 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 […] [Original post on ecoevo.social]

We sincerely thank Erasmus University Rotterdam for their support in 2025 via the Erasmus Diamond Open Access Fund 🙏 https://www.eur.nl/en/library/research-support/open-access/erasmus-open-access-fund

On November 4th, PCI will participate in the Open Access Week hosted by the Institut Polytechnique de Paris! For more information, visit https://www.ip-paris.fr/en/news/open-access-week-2025

Well done Historical Biology! 🥳 https://doi.org/10.1080/08912963.2025.2567087

Next week, PCI will be at the Open Access week organised by Johns Hopkins University: https://hub.jhu.edu/events/2025/10/24/reimagining-scientific-publishing-the-peer-community-in-pci-revolution/ and the ACROSS Open Access week organised by the University of […] [Original post on ecoevo.social]

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

We are delighted to have Durham University as one of our supporters this year. Thank you!💐 https://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: https://youtu.be/0NJ87tYE8_s

PCI is featured in this Nature News post, which presents some ideas to help fix the peer-review system: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02457-2

💡 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: https://www.csescienceeditor.org/article/new-editorial-models-for-decentralized-publishing/

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

📣 Save the date for the 12th PCI webinar on September 18, 2025, at 4 PM CET!! Dorothy Bishop will present "Editors matter: How negligent publishers subvert quality control in scientific publishing ". For more details and registration, visit: https://peercommunityin.org/pci-webinar-series/

Many thanks to Karlstad University for becoming a supporter of PCI this year (https://www.kau.se/en)😎!

The Association for Psychological Science and its journal AMPPS recently spotlighted PCI in two news articles💫!! You can find them here: https://www.psychologicalscience.org/publications/observer/community-peer-review-initiative.html and here […] [Original post on ecoevo.social]

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

Stockholm University is joining the ranks of PCI's new sponsors for 2025! 😊 https://www.su.se/english/

Why link preprints and their peer reviews? Read this post from Kathleen Shearer (COAR @coar_repositories): https://coar-repositories.org/news-updates/how-innovative-new-practices-are-helping-transform-scholarly-publishing/

PCI is proud to welcome the Universidade do Minho - Unidade de Serviços de Documentação e Bibliotecas (USDB) as one of its new supporters 🥳 https://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) […] [Original post on ecoevo.social]

Biology Open's editorial on a decade of preprints in biology. Check it out here: https://journals.biologists.com/bio/article/14/6/bio062111/368433/Staying-ahead-of-the-curve-a-decade-of-preprints

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!😍 ⭐ https://www.bcu-lausanne.ch/en/blog-librairie/diamond-open-access-fund/

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 […] [Original post on ecoevo.social]

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

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

You can now watch the recording of Brandon Stell's webinar! ⏯️ Check it out here: https://youtu.be/PXshwcUmTog?si=nx2h8zPRvPt6YRqg

We're pleased to announce the University of Cambridge as a new supporter of PCI! We greatly appreciate their endorsement of our open, transparent, and community-driven peer review model.

Thanks to the Société Française de Bioinformatique for the highlight 😊 https://www.sfbi.fr/en/blog/article/ou-publier

Many thanks to the University of Melbourne for joining the PCI supporters in 2025! ✨ https://blogs.unimelb.edu.au/researcher-library/2025/01/24/open-access-publishing-in-2025/

📣 Save the date for the 11th PCI webinar on June 18, 2025, at 4 PM CET!! Brandon Stell (CNRS, Paris) will present "Elevating Scientific Standards: Community-Driven Assessment on PubPeer ". For more details and registration, visit: https://buff.ly/XuownT0

Check out the freshly launched TSOSI (Transparency to Sustain Open Infrastructure) website and take a peek at the list of PCI supporters! https://tsosi.org/entities/ba72cfcc-5d15-46ca-8685-151c3960a2a0

❗❗❗If SciPost has benefited you or your institution, now is the time to show support! Read the SciPost team's open letter here: https://jscaux.org/blog/post/2025/05/13/scipost-at-a-crossroads/ and their previous one here […] [Original post on ecoevo.social]

Today and tomorrow, Peer Community In is at the 12th Colloque of "Société Française de Phytopathologie". Come have a chat with Barbara and pick up a few flyers! #sfp #UniversitéBordeaux

📣 Save the date for the 11th PCI webinar on June 18, 2025, at 4 PM CET!! Brandon Stell (CNRS, Paris) will present "Elevating Scientific Standards: Community-Driven Assessment on PubPeer ". For more details and registration, visit: https://buff.ly/XuownT0

A heartfelt thank you to the University of Groningen, which is now a supporter of PCI 🙏 ! You can find more details at https://www.rug.nl/library/open-access/news/250507-pci

🤓 Ever heard of PCI-friendly journals? These journals either ✅ directly accept preprints or registered reports recommended by PCI, or ✉️ provide an answer (accept, reject, review) within 5-10 days. For more details and the list of these 💯 journals 👉 […] [Original post on ecoevo.social]

The PCI team participated in #OpenScience Week at AgroParisTech and the Graduate School Biosphera. We thank the organizers for the insightful presentations on the current publishing landscape and enjoyed the engaging roundtable discussion about PCI.

How do portable peer review (PPR), Review Commons and Peer Community In make peer review more sustainable? Check out this editorial in PLOS Biology! https://buff.ly/BtEnecl

Last Thursday, we had the pleasure of listening to Sabina Leonelli's talk on "When Open Publishing Is Not Fair". If you missed it, the video is now available online! Check it out here: https://buff.ly/OP1O4Xh

Our 10th PCI webinar is happening TOMORROW (March 20, 2025, at 4 PM CET)🤩 !! We are thrilled to hear Sabina Leonelli's talk on "When Open Publishing Is Not Equitable." For more information and to sign up, visit: https://buff.ly/PvYtdaF

🥁 Reminder: Our next PCI webinar is on March 20, 2025, at 4 PM CET. Sabina Leonelli from the Technical University of Munich will discuss "When Open Publishing Is Not Fair." For more details and registration, visit: https://buff.ly/49QXV0R

Thinking about flipping your journal to Diamond OA? Check out this guide from the Netherlands' Diamond Expertise Centre https://buff.ly/0lVMMq2 FYI, PCI is mentioned there too 😉 #openaccess #AcademicPublishing

The Queen Mary University of London is now supporting PCI and wrote a very nice post about it 😍 ! https://buff.ly/jUmwpa3

A new #preprint #OpenScience #PeerReview by @PCI_Ecology: Ruben Van De Walle et al (2025) Drivers of plant-associated invertebrate community structure in West-European coastal dunes. BioRxiv, ver. 4 peer-reviewed and recommended by Peer Community in Ecology […]

📣 Save the date for the 10th PCI webinar on March 20, 2025, at 4 PM CET. Sabina Leonelli from the Technical University of Munich will discuss "When Open Publishing Is Not Fair." For more details and registration, visit: https://buff.ly/49QXV0R