Original title: "«Peer Community In», un système alternatif de publication scientifique" ("Peer Community In", an alternative system for scientific publication)

Original title: "«Peer Community In», un système alternatif de publication scientifique" ("Peer Community In", an alternative system for scientific publication) The project (the website is in English): https://peercommunityin.org/ https://peercommunityin.org/ Portal title: PCI, a free recommendation process of scientific preprints based on peer reviews > 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 journal [...] The recommendation of an article is an editorial decision made by a recommender based on at least two rigorous peer review and after one or several rounds of peer reviews. The recommendations are published in the corresponding thematic PCI websites with a DOI and can be cited. // Once recommended by PCI, articles become citable valid references, similar to journal articles, but they can still be submitted to a journal or directly published in the Peer Community Journal From the submitted article, by Denis Bourguet (cofounder of Peer Community In; Director of Research of INRAE - Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement): > [PCI opens the way for a re-appropriation by researchers of their evaluation and publication system, and a greater transparency in the chain of knowledge production] > [The project was conceived in 2016... because of the problems of restricted access to publication and high costs. // In France, half of publications... are inaccessible to the public] > [In Europe, the reviewed pre-prints are recognized by the European Commission [and many more entities]. [In spite of making further publication in a journal non needed], researcher can also submit their validated and recommended pre-print to a scientific journal] [...] Starting from 2021, articles recommended by a topical section of PCI can be published directly in the Peer Community Journal, free and open]