Published on: 13/05/2026
From Preprints to Publication: How Community-Driven Models Are Reshaping Scholarly Communication
11th June 2026 at 16:30-18:00 CEST (Paris)
The second webinar in the Discussion Series explores aspects of the emerging Publish-Review-Curate (PRC) model as a community-governed pathway for scholarly publishing and its potential to operate within Diamond Open Access and nonprofit principles. Through perspectives from the three regions represented in ALMASI, the session will consider the PRC model both as infrastructure and as process, and engage with key Open Science concepts such as preprints, open peer review, and curation. Together, the contributions invite participants to reflect on how community-driven approaches to publishing are taking shape across different contexts.
Discussions take place in English.
Programme
- Zehra Taşkin | Hacettepe University (Turkey), Institute of Informatics; TSV (Finland)
Zehra Taşkin will open the session with an overview of the Diamond Open Access landscape across Africa, Europe, and Latin America, drawing on the findings of the ALMASI scoping report to set the stage for the discussion.
- Femi Qudus Arogundade | West and Central African Research and Education Network WACREN (Ghana)
Femi Qudus Arogundade will bring an African perspective through COPPHA PublishNow, reflecting on how community-driven publishing connects to Diamond OA and nonprofit principles.
- Patricia Pedri | Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (Brazil)
Patricia Pedri will contribute a Latin American perspective grounded in her expertise on open peer review and Open Science.
- Thomas Guillermaud | Institut Sophia Agrobiotech, INRAE-Université de Nice, Sophia Antipolis / Peer Community In (France)
Thomas Guillermaud will share a European perspective through Peer Community In and the Peer Community Journal, presenting community-governed publishing as both infrastructure and process.
Thursday, 11th June 2026
16:30 CEST (Paris)
14:30 GMT (Accra)
11:30 BRT (Sao Paulo)
Duration: 90 minutes
