In today’s fast-paced world, new discoveries are emerging at ever-increasing rates. Yet many journals continue to have delays of 12–24 months from preprint submission to publication. Moreover, public trust in science and scholarship is in decline in many countries, undermining fact-based decision making and the perceived value of higher education in general.
For scholarly publishing to remain relevant, we must adopt a more efficient and transparent publishing system; one that ensures rapid access to research outcomes and that provides open and transparent access to peer reviews.
Publish, Review, Curate (PRC) offers meaningful solutions to these challenges
Publish, Review, Curate (PRC) is an innovative approach to scholarly publishing that involves the review, validation, and editorial commentary of an openly available article.
- Rapid dissemination of research results compared with the long submission to publishing times of traditional publishing
- Creates transparency across the entire publishing process, especially in terms of peer reviews
- Can be tailored to disciplinary norms and community practices and supports diverse research outputs and publishing workflows
- Costs are distributed across services, facilitating innovative new sustainability models for scholarly publishing
- Enables community ownership and community governance of critical publication infrastructures
- Creates resilience because of the distributed nature of the infrastructures
- Facilitates interdisciplinary dialogues. Multiple communities can endorse or review the same item
Publish | Review | Curate 