2/ More must-have info for your reading catch up time!
Our friends at the #ScholCommLab have a number of publications on #Research data, #DiamondOpenAccess, #Metadata, #OpenScience, #Indexing, #APCs, #Citations, #EDI, #ScholComm and more:
www.scholcommlab.ca/publications/
#AcademicSky
Infographic titled “The Drain of Scientific Publishing,” describing four problems in scholarly publishing: Money, Time, Trust, and Control. Money: Illustration of flying dollar bills and buildings beside a bank. Text explains that for-profit publishers charge unreasonable reading and publishing fees disconnected from production costs, noting that Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley, and Taylor & Francis made $US 12 billion profit from 2019–2024. Time: Illustration of a stressed researcher surrounded by stacks of papers and a clock. Text states researchers spend enormous time as authors, reviewers, and editors, maintaining a system that prioritizes quantity over quality, causing burnout and reduced rigor. Trust: Illustration of a magnifying glass over retracted papers. Text describes commercial pressures to publish quickly, enabling low-quality and fraudulent papers, eroding public confidence. Control: Illustration of a person with medals labeled with journal metrics. Text explains that rankings like journal impact factor and h-index dictate success, with infrastructures biased toward English journals and controlled by for-profit companies. At the bottom, a stop-sign graphic reads “Stop the Drain.” Additional text calls for altering incentives and ownership of publishing, re-communalizing scholarly publishing, building community-led systems, preventing unreasonable profits, and using existing open models and infrastructures (e.g., preprints, diamond journals, OJS, SciELO). A final statement urges aligning research assessment with open, community-led publishing.
📣 Our friends at the #ScholCommLab have published a preprint, "The Drain of #ScientificPublishing", and are calling for #research communities, funders, governments, and #universities to "re-communalise publishing to serve #science not the market"
doi.org/10.48550/arX...
#ScholComm #AcademicSky
The tiny academic thrill of being asked a question by a student and being able to say: "Hang on, my colleagues actually wrote a paper about this…”
doi.org/10.1002/asi.... @lucyces.bsky.social @diegokoz.bsky.social @lariviev.bsky.social et al. #ScholCommLab
“Why the Economics of Scientific Publishing Need Urgent Reform”
📚 @stefhaustein.scholcommlab.ca - @uottawa.ca highlights the shortcomings of the economic model of the scholarly publishing ecosystem and suggests 13 measures.
📌 shorturl.at/fc1DV
#ScholCommLab #ScholComm #ScholarlyPublishing
«Pourquoi l'économie de l'édition scientifique a besoin d'une réforme urgente»
📚Ce texte de @stefhaustein.scholcommlab.ca souligne les travers du modèle économique de la publication savante et propose 13 mesures pour y remédier.
📌 shorturl.at/g5Zel
#ScholCommLab #ScholComm #ScholarlyPublishing
Slides for my #OAWeek talk @uottawabiblio.bsky.social @uottawa.ca today:
“Who owns our knowledge? A data feminist perspective on closed research infrastructure”
doi.org/10.5281/zeno... #ScholCommLab #openaccess #AcademicSky #datafeminism
#OAWeek Indiana University Library Keynote (free, online Oct 24, 12:30 PM ET): Who Owns Our Knowledge? Scholar-Led Infrastructures and the Future of Publishing
With Juan Pablo Alperin, PKP / #ScholCommLab
@juancommander.scholcommlab.ca
It's not to late to register! events.iu.edu/libraries/ev...
Dr. Juan Pablo Alperin is PKP Scientific Director, ScholCommLab Co-Director, and will be instructing the new PKP + SFU #OpenPublishing course 'Making Knowledge Public'!
Meet him and other instructors October 30: pkp.sfu.ca/2025/10/01/r...
And check out the new #ScholCommLab blog post ⤵️
#OAWeek
J’ai récemment réfléchi à la conférence de la Royal Society sur l’avenir de l’édition scientifique et résumé mes idées dans un billet de blogue de l’ISSP: www.uottawa.ca/recherche-in...
#ÉditionScientifique #LibreAccès #ScholCommLab
Big #OAWeek coming up for us at the #ScholCommLab 👇🏼
PKP Scientific Director Juan Pablo Alperin @juancommander.scholcommlab.ca is Co-Director of the #ScholCommLab, along with Stefanie Haustein @stefhaustein.scholcommlab.ca, and they're getting ready for #OAWeek 2025 with the @uottawabiblio.bsky.social!
Check it out ⤵️
If you already read the #ScholCommLab blog last week, here's what's new in @lseimpactblog.bsky.social post:
We added layer of analysis for how NIH cap on APCs would affect large publishers. In raw dollars, the what NIH director calls "duopoly" Elsevier and Springer Nature would be affected most.
Really sad to say goodbye to Doro Strecker @ibi-hu.bsky.social @humboldtuni.bsky.social who’s been visiting the #ScholCommLab @uottawa.ca for the last 6 weeks w/ help of a @berlinualliance.bsky.social scholarship. At least we had amazing weather today to enjoy a proper “vierte Mahlzeit” outside ☕️🍰
Great stuff from @juancommander.scholcommlab.ca #ScholCommLab on the #NIH caps proposal and its impact: www.scholcommlab.ca/2025/09/03/n...
#AcademicSky #SciSky #PoliSky #ScienceSky #science #research #Scholcom
Juan Pablo Alperin Reflects on His Academic Career (via #ScholCommLab) www.scholcommlab.ca/2025/09/08/j... #scholcomm #libraries #publishing
New From the Team at #ScholCommLab NIH Explores Capping #APCs: Let’s Look at the Evidence https://www.scholcommlab.ca/2025/09/03/nih-apc-caps/ #publishing #scholcomm #libraries
New From the Team at #ScholCommLab: NIH Explores Capping #APCs: Let’s Look at the Evidence www.scholcommlab.ca/2025/09/03/n... #publishing #scholcomm #libraries
Expanded this study to 2,200+ journals=87% of NIH funded papers in 2025 so far. Blog post with @eschares.bsky.social @juancommander.scholcommlab.ca @lucyces.bsky.social and other #ScholCommLab members coming later today.
Btw, readers of our newsletter already heard about this last week. If you want to stay up to date on all things #ScholCommLab, please consider subscribing: www.scholcommlab.ca/stay-up-to-d...
@eschares.bsky.social and I, together with some last minute help by #ScholCommLab members @lucyces.bsky.social, Constance Poitras and Dorothea Strecker, provided Jeff with some data on APCs for the top journals of authors acknowledging NIH funding this year so far.
📢 Broken incentives & hijacked #OpenAccess — sound familiar?
@theguardian.com article sparked responses including a powerful one at #ScholCommLab @stefhaustein.scholcommlab.ca @eschares.bsky.social Leigh-Ann Butler & @juancommander.scholcommlab.ca
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
#AcademicSky
Major career achievement @royalsociety.org discussing the future of scientific publishing #scholcomm #scholcommlab 🍆🐀 📖
This week the #ScholCommLab has made its support for the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) public. We do so in response to the genocide in Gaza and the deliberate destruction of its education system—what scholars now identify as scholasticide. [1/x]
An additional response, from me and the #scholcommlab, which I co-lead with @stefhaustein.scholcommlab.ca bsky.app/profile/juan...
An additional response, from me and the #scholcommlab, which I co-lead with @stefhaustein.scholcommlab.ca bsky.app/profile/juan...
An additional response, from me and the #scholcommlab, which I co-lead with @stefhaustein.scholcommlab.ca bsky.app/profile/juan...
An additional response, from me and the #scholcommlab, which I co-lead with @stefhaustein.scholcommlab.ca bsky.app/profile/juan...
An additional response, from me and the #scholcommlab, which I co-lead with @stefhaustein.scholcommlab.ca bsky.app/profile/juan...
Today, the #scholcommlab published a Statement of Support for PACBI Principles. With it, I reject my university's (SFU's) complicity in the ongoing genocide in Gaza, and call them out for restricting my ability to direct the work of @pkp.sfu.ca in a principled way. www.scholcommlab.ca/pacbi/
