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Upcoming Events
April 2026 OpenCon Librarian Community Call
Peer Community In and Peer Community Journal: from preprint recommendation to diamond open access publication
Join us at the next OpenCon Librarian Community Call on Tuesday, April 14 at 12 p.m. ET / 9 a.m. PT for a conversation with Denis Bourguet and Thomas Guillemaud, the co-founders of PCI.
Peer Community In (PCI) is a researcher-led alternative to today’s costly and opaque publishing system. It organizes thematic platforms where preprints are peer reviewed, publicly recommended by scientific communities and, if the authors wish, published in Peer Community Journal (a multidisciplinary diamond open-access journal).
Founded in 2017, PCI has recommended over 1,000 preprints across 21 thematic platforms, and since 2021, PCJ has published more than 550 articles and is indexed in major databases. As a non-profit and non commercial initiative supported by over 200 public research institutions worldwide, PCI is helping reshape scholarly communication around transparency, openness, reproducibility and academic independence.
About the speakers:
Denis Bourguet and Thomas Guillemaud are the co-founders of PCI. They are senior scientists at the French national research institute in agronomy and environment (Inrae) where they study the evolutionary biology of pest insect species. Denis works in Montpellier, France, and Thomas works in Sophia Antipolis, France.
OpenCon Librarian Community Calls are limited to those working in libraries, and registration is now required. You can register for the April call here.
Agenda and Notes
You can find all the proposed agendas and notes from the Librarian community calls in one place, right here.
Recordings
Community Calls are not recorded to support a safer environment for open and honest discussion. However, notes are taken.
What to expect
Community calls are always friendly, and we love new faces. The more you participate, the more you'll get out of it!
We’re working to make online research & educational materials free to read, share, and modify for all.
Research Papers
We believe in Open Access—the free, immediate, online availability of research articles—to ensure that anyone with an Internet connection can read, use, and build upon research findings.
Research Data
We advocate for Open Research Data so that anyone can freely download, copy, analyze and re-process data. We believe Open Data encourages transparency and collaboration among researchers, accelerates discovery, and allows the public to engage with publicly funded data.
Education
We believe in Open Education to maximize the power of the Internet to make educational materials more affordable, more accessible and more effective for learners. We advocate for Open Education so that teachers can share, adapt, and build off existing materials.
Blog and News
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OpenCon is organized by SPARC, the Right to Research Coalition, and a Organizing Committee of students and early career academic professionals from around the world.