PCI and digital open access academic publication: a discussion with Professor Matthieu Boisgontier | University of Ottawa

"PCI aims to create an open access publishing ecosystem, led by scholars, outside the traditional commercial publishing system. This new model would cover the entire process (from submission to publication) and operate in ways that benefit the academic community in order to promote transparency, open access, reproducibility, equity, diversity and inclusion. There are currently 17 PCI communities, each dedicated to a discipline, such as ecology, neuroscience, evolutionary biology, or genomics.

PCI also publishes the Peer Community Journal, an academic platform with no publication fees, in accordance with the diamond open access model and already indexed by Google Scholar, DOAJ, CAB Abstract and Dimensions. There are also several PCI-friendly journals, of which 30 are diamond open access and 55 belong to university publishers or research organizations.

The Library of the University of Ottawa and the Faculty of Health Sciences are proud supporters of PCI.

To learn more about PCI and its advantages, we spoke to Matthieu Boisgontier, associate professor at the Faculty of Health Sciences and principal investigator at the Bruyère Research Institute. As a champion of open scholarship who notably won uOttawa Library’s 2022 Open Scholarship Award, Boisgontier founded PCI Health & Movement Sciences, making him an expert in this innovative publishing method...."