Peer Community In & Peer Community Journal, two open access tools for more transparent and less expensive evaluations and publications

As part of UM's Open Science policy, UM's research support team is launchinga series of webinarsfor the scientific community.

These short workshops (20 to 40 minutes of presentation followed by discussion) will alternate between theoretical input and practical demonstrations on open science, scientific publications, and research data.

The webinar on April 2, 2024, from 11 a.m. to 12 p.m., will be presented by Denis Bourguet, INRAE researcher and co-founder of PCI, on the topic: Peer Community In & Peer Community Journal, two open access tools for more transparent and less expensive evaluations and publications.

The Peer Community In (PCI) initiative aims to revolutionize the scientific publishing process by creating communities of researchers who evaluate and recommend preprints in their respective fields. This initiative, which is free for authors and readers, aims to reduce the costs associated with publishing while ensuring the robustness and transparency of the editorial process. The recommendation of a preprint by a PCI does not prevent authors from submitting it to a traditional journal, particularly "PCI-friendly journals" that take PCI evaluations into account. In addition, Peer Community Journal (PCJ) allows authors who wish to do so to publish their recommended preprints free of charge and in open access.

Since 2017, 17 PCI have been created, with more than 2,000 publishers and around 100 "PCI-friendly journals." Since 2024, scientists have been able to submit their preprints to these various PCI directly from the HAL portal. PCI and PCJ are recognized and supported by more than 150 scientific organizations/institutions.

Find all past webinars on YouTube