Submit a preprint
Step 1 – Deposit your article on a preprint server
or an open archive, e.g. bioRxiv, HAL, Zenodo, arXiv, OSF Preprints, etc.
Step 2 – Submit it to PCI
Choose one of the following thematic PCIs:
- Animal Science
- Archaeology
- Ecology
- Ecotoxicology and Environmental Chemistry
- Evolutionary Biology
- Forest and Wood Sciences
- Genomics
- Health and Movement Sciences
- Infections
- Mathematical and Computational Biology
- Microbiology
- Network Science
- Neuroscience
- Nutrition
- Organization Studies
- Paleontology
- Plants
- Psychology
- Registered Reports
- Statistics and Machine Learning
- Zoology
After passing the PCI evaluation, you can decide to:
– Not to publish your article in a journal and therefore to keep it as a PCI-recommended preprint in its preprint server
Or
–Transfer it for publication in Peer Community Journal, a multidisciplinary, indexed and diamond open access journal, for free
Or
– Submit it to a PCI-friendly journal or to any other journal