International Open Access Week at Johns Hopkins 

Join us October 20-24 to learn more about open access, copyright, and publishing. This year’s theme asks a pointed question about the present moment and how, in a time of disruption, communities can reassert control of the knowledge they produce.  JH Libraries are presenting a number of events geared at helping JH researchers and students understand more about open access and how it can bring a wider audience and impact to your work.  The founders of the preprint peer review service Peer Community In, is our Keynote Talk for 2025 OA Week.

Peer Community In (PCI) offers a free and transparent alternative to the traditional scientific publication system by creating communities of researchers who evaluate and recommend preprints. Each PCI brings together “recommenders” who act as editors and recommend preprints, which can then be submitted to journals or published directly in the Peer Community Journal. Launched in 2017, the PCI initiative has grown to 20 thematic communities, includes more than 2,500 scientists, and is supported by over 200 institutions worldwide.

Bios

Thomas Guillemaud and Denis Bourguet are the co-founders of PCI. They are senior scientists at the French national research institute for agronomy and environment (INRAE), where they study the evolutionary biology of pest insect species. Denis is based in Montpellier, France, and Thomas in Sophia Antipolis, France.