Peer Community in Psychology: A platform for peer review of preprints across psychology

The current scientific publishing landscape consists of a small number of for-profit publishers who rely on the free or underpaid labor of researchers, as well as researchers who endorse and perpetuate the system in the name of prestige. The purpose of this brief editorial is to introduce an alternative model, Peer Community in (PCI) Psychology. PCI Psychology is a journal-independent service that reviews and recommends preprints related to psychological research and scholarship. PCI Psychology is a community-focused platform with no costs to researchers, and emphasizes openness, transparency, and methodological rigor. The purpose of this brief paper is to provide an overview of PCI Psychology and how it works, document the history of the initiative, and address some questions or concerns that authors might have.