UT Libraries is pleased to announce support for a new open access (OA) initiative, Peer Community In.
Peer Community In (PCI) is a scientist-led initiative to provide a reviewing and recommending service for pre-print articles; similar to the peer review process for journal articles. Those recommended pre-prints can then be submitted to the Peer Community Journal or a PCI friendly journal which will accept the recommended pre-print article with waived or expedited peer review.
How does it work?
- Submit your preprint to an existing preprint server (like bioRxiv or HAL) or an OA repository using an article template to ensure all required sections are included in your preprint.
- Choose a PCI community to submit your preprint for peer-review evaluation.
- If your article is recommended, you will receive a link you can use to cite the recommendation.
- After recommendation, you can submit to the Peer Community Journal or a PCI friendly journal.
- Since the article has already been reviewed, these journals will accept the article with waived or expedited peer review in order to speed up the publication process
- You can also choose to submit your article to a journal not affiliated with PCI. In those cases, your recommendation on PCI will continue to be citable.
There are currently 17 Peer Communities:
- PCI Evolutionary Biology
- PCI Ecology
- PCI Paleontology
- PCI Neuroscience
- PCI Zoology
- PCI Genomics
- PCI Math & Computational Biology
- PCI Animal Science
- PCI Forest & Wood Sciences
- PCI Archaeology
- PCI Network Science
- PCI Ecotoxicology Environmental Chemistry
- PCI Infections
- PCI Microbiology
- PCI Health & Movement Sciences
- PCI Registered Reports
- PCI Organization Studies
Peer Community In Author Guidelines
We encourage researchers at UT to check out this initiative and let us know what you think.
You can check out the full list of OA initiatives the University of Texas Libraries supports on the Open Access LibGuide.
