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Posts by Simon van Bellen

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THE LONG READ Infrastructure Landlords: The Rentier Capitalism of Commercial Academic Publishers THE LONG READ Infrastructure Landlords: The Rentier Capitalism of Commercial Academic Publishers This piece has been written by a friend of the OLH who wishes to remain anonymous. Figure. Pyramid …

Infrastructure Landlords: The Rentier Capitalism of Commercial Academic Publishers

This piece explores how major academic publishers are becoming “infrastructure landlords”, not just publishing research, but owning the systems around it.

👉 www.openlibhums.org/news/931/

#OpenAccess #ScholComm

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Le « Big Five » : un oligopole en perte de vitesse Découvrabilité | La domination croissante des géants de l’édition sur l’écosystème mondial de la publication savante est un fait largement documenté; cependant, l’essor récent de bases de données plus...

Le « Big Five » : un oligopole en perte de vitesse www.acfas.ca/publications... avec @juancommander.scholcommlab.ca @simonvbellen.bsky.social @acfas.ca @chaire-dcsf.bsky.social

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Of course many thanks to those who provided feedback!

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Did you spot outdated or lacking data? Please comment on docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

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Revues savantes canadiennes/Canadian scholarly journals Métadonnées des revues savantes canadiennes, y compris des revues actives et des revues ayant cessé la publication. Pour être incluses, les revues ...

A new version of Coalition Publica's Canadian scholarly journal dataset now available on doi.org/10.5683/SP3/..., including latest FRQ support data and new journals. @borealisdata.bsky.social @pkp.sfu.ca @erudit.org

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Dépenser 1,7 milliard pour attirer des scientifiques étrangers est une fausse bonne idée Pour devenir un pôle scientifique d’envergure, il faut plutôt augmenter nos investissements en recherche et développement.

Dépenser 1,7 milliard pour attirer des scientifiques étrangers est une fausse bonne idée www.ledevoir.com/opinion/idee...

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In Defense of Pluralism and Diversity: A Modest Manifesto for the Future of Scholarly Communication (Part 2 of 2) - The Scholarly Kitchen An invitation to embrace pluralism and diversity in scholarly communication models -- rather than attempting to impose a single solution.

I guess this is what you get when you value "diversity in profit margins" rather than diversity in authorship and its origin, multilingualism and disciplinary and thematic diversity scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/11/18/a...

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Effet durable du libre accès pour les revues sur Érudit : davantage de consultations et un lectorat plus diversifié Quel est l'effet du libre accès diamant pour les revues savantes ? Découvrez l'influence du libre accès sur les consultations d'articles.

Nouvelles données : l'effet du libre accès aux articles scientifiques sur les consultations en ligne : apropos.erudit.org/effet-libre-... dans le contexte d'@erudit.org #openaccess

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This video from Fairmount Bagels in Montreal from their Instagram is the most impressive thing I've ever seen

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Les présentations du colloque sur la découvrabilité des contenus scientifiques en français, tenu dans le cadre du 92e congrès de l’@acfas.ca , sont maintenant disponibles en ligne ! 📥
Téléchargez-les ici 👉 dcsf.cirst.ca#presentations

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Thank you, Eric. Each panel only shows the publishers that have been part of the "top 5" at some point during this period, according to each database.

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How do we know this? Because (rather) inclusive databases such as @dimensions.ai and #OpenAlex provide a more complete image of what is out there, compared to the restrictive Web of Science.

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A new view of the state of the scholarly publishing oligopoly: doi.org/10.1371/jour... Considering journals and papers published, big publishers have been losing ground, as many independent journals have been created, especially since 2000. With @juancommander.scholcommlab.ca @lariviev.bsky.social

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Thank you, Laura! We are trying to keep it updated to make it useful in the long term. So please feel free to contact me if for any updates, improvements, suggestions, or questions in general.

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Cultivez votre savoir Découvrez nos collections de documents en sciences humaines et sociales : revues, livres et actes, thèses, rapports de recherche.

This is common for book reviews, the titles of which often include the title of the book reviewed. I have seen this frequently for content on erudit.org. It has nothing to do with questionable practice.

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Diamond open access and open infrastructures have shaped the Canadian scholarly journal landscape since the start of the digital era | The Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science...

And very timely as well, following our presentation at @cais-acsi.bsky.social , our article on the current state and historical trends of the Canadian journal scholarly journal landscape has just been published ! 🤸‍♀️

@simonvbellen.bsky.social

doi.org/10.5206/cjil...

#AcademicSky #ScholComm

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Here is Earth's rotation realized in an unusual way: using a camera scanning the landscape of Tivoli, Namibia, Bartosz Wojczyński focused on the sky.

He created a timelapse spanning 24 h that has a focal point in the sky rather than on the ground.

➡️ apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap20070...

🔭 🧪 #galactic

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Logo de Mirabel et slogan "(re)cueillir les savoirs".

Logo de Mirabel et slogan "(re)cueillir les savoirs".

Rendre visibles les politiques de publications des revues scientifiques françaises
www.ouvrirlascience.fr/rendre-visib... @ouvrirlascience.bsky.social

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📣📚 Call for applications - ends April 16

There is less than 3 weeks left to apply to our annual call for applications. Quebec and Canadian scholarly journals wishing to be disseminated on our platform, here is your chance!

For more details: apropos.erudit.org/call-for-app...

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À moins que vous ayez d'autres données, la figure ne montre pas que le développement du réseau cyclable nuit aux déplacements en TC. Pourquoi ce ne sera pas la place qu'on laisse à l'auto qui en est la cause? D'autant plus car ce sont justement les déplacements en auto qui ont augmenté.

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Les données sont déjà disponibles sur notre Dataverse Boréales : doi.org/10.5683/SP3/....

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Documenting the Canadian Scholarly Journal Landscape // Documenter le paysage des revues savantes canadiennes — Coalition Publica Register for the online webinar “Documenting the Canadian scholarly journal landscape: an open dataset for the community” // Inscrivez-vous au webinaire en ligne « Documenter le paysage des revues sav...

Webinaire de Coalition Publica présentant notre répertoire ouvert de revues savantes canadiennes, les résultats de l'étude de celles-ci, et des projets en cours! #openaccess #erudit #pkp www.coalition-publi.ca/news-nouvell...

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→ Are you studying #scholarlycommunication, research dissemination or doing a research project in #digitalhumanities ?⁠

#CoalitionPublica is accepting scholarship applications until April 18.⁠
👉 www.coalition-publi.ca/news-nouvell...

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→ Vous étudiez le système de la communication savante, la diffusion de la recherche ou vous avez un projet de recherche qui applique des méthodes des #humanitésnumériques ?⁠

Appliquez aux bourses #CoalitionPublica avant le 18 avril.⁠
👉 www.coalition-publi.ca/news-nouvell...

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Latin American journals are open-access pioneers. Now, they need an audience SciElo, other platforms work to help journals reach readers around the world

On the visibility of (diamond OA). This is a great piece, which refers to DOAJ as a reference for OA. Yet even DOAJ is somewhat exclusive. For example, only about a quarter of 'serious' Canadian Diamond OA journals are in DOAJ. www.science.org/content/arti...

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