Peer Community In (PCI) is a non-profit organization of researchers offering peer review, recommendation, and publication of scientific articles in open access for free.
Following submission by authors, the thematic PCIs evaluate preprints in their scientific fields based on rigorous peer review. After evaluation, the PCIs may recommend those preprints, to make them complete, reliable and citable articles, without the need for publication in ‘traditional’ journals. Authors who need to publish their article in a journal can publish it for free in Peer Community Journal or submit it to a PCI-friendly or other journals.
Among many high profile international academic institutions, JH Libraries supports PCI. PCI is free and easy to use. Just deposit your preprint in a preprint server like bioRxiv and request a thematic PCI to evaluate/peer review your preprint; once approved by PCI, you are eligible to expedite your journal article publication process through either publishing in the Peer Community Journal OR publishing in a PCI-friendly journal.
If you should have any questions about PCI, please feel free to contact Welch Medical Library’s Scholarly Communications Librarian, Nancy Shin, at nshin4@jhu.edu