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Stefanie Haustein

@stefhaustein.scholcommlab.ca

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Associate prof, School of Information Studies, University of Ottawa @uottawa.ca Co-director, Scholarly Communications Lab #ScholCommLab #FirstGen open science | bibliometrics | open access | research assessment | metascience

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Stefanie Haustein @stefhaustein.scholcommlab.ca · 27d

Our analysis on possible effects of APC caps, which would limit grant money spending on publication fees, just like the NIH is considering for their updated public access policy, in the @lseimpactblog.bsky.social today 👇🏼#ScholCommLab #openaccess #publishingmarket

LSE Impact Blog @lseimpactblog.bsky.social · 27d

💥New: Shaking up the scholarly publishing market – Why caps on APCs could backfire

✍️@stefhaustein.scholcommlab.ca @eschares.bsky.social, @juancommander.scholcommlab.ca Flavia Camargo, @lmatthia.bsky.social Lucía Céspedes, Constance Poitras & Dorothea Strecker

#AcademicSky #ScholComm #OpenAccess

Shaking up the scholarly publishing market – Why caps on APCs could backfire - Impact of Social Sciences

An analysis of APC pricing and the impact of proposed NIH caps on APCs, suggest imposing price caps on author fees could lead to further market concentration.

blogs.lse.ac.uk

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Crossref @crossref.bsky.social · 2h

The funding behind research should never be invisible. The Crossref Grant Linking System now shows over 250,000 links between grants and research outputs.

Read more: https://doi.org/10.64000/607z6-1nh09?mtm_campaign=blog%20post&mtm_source=BS&mtm_medium=social

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Stefanie Haustein @stefhaustein.scholcommlab.ca · 1d

@juancommander.scholcommlab.ca

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 2d

In my earlier post regarding PubMed (bsky.app/profile/jere...), I meant to indicate that PubMed does not appear to be being updated at its historical pace, not that fewer papers were being published.

I apologize for any confusion.

Here is a thread with some more analysis.

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Dalmeet Singh Chawla @dalmeet.bsky.social · 2d

Researchers are pleased about the #NIH possibly introducing caps on #OpenAccess fees its grantees can pay from their funding but say the change is imperfect—my latest for @cenmag.bsky.social: cen.acs.org/policy/publi...

@jeremymberg.bsky.social, @stefhaustein.scholcommlab.ca, @pamherd.bsky.social

NIH decision looms about caps on scholarly-journal publishing fees

Researchers are pleased about possible limit to publishers’ profits but say the proposed change is imperfect

cen.acs.org

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 6d

📢 The #InternetArchive is celebrating an extraordinary milestone: 1 trillion web pages preserved by the #WaybackMachine. 🎉

Join us!
📆 Weds, Oct 22

🎟️ IN-PERSON: 5–10 PM PT (SF) ⤵️
www.eventbrite.com/e/1626438133...

💻 ONLINE: 7–8 PM PT ⤵️
www.eventbrite.com/e/1626431011...

#Wayback1T

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Anna Abalkina @abalkina.bsky.social · 8d

I found a watermark of an Indian paper mill, which helped me identify 100+ papers over the weekend. So far, 490 papers have been detected. Most authors are from India, China, and Saudi Arabia. Only 4 papers have been retracted. Papers are full of fake data, yet they still get published. #papermills

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Danny Kingsley @dannykay68.bsky.social · 9d

USEFUL: Generative Al License Tracker from Ithaca S+R sr.ithaka.org/our-work/gen... Tracking deals publishers have with companies licensing their scholarly content for use as training data for LLM

(Noting the 'their content' aspect of this - read your publishing agreements folks before signing)

Generative AI Licensing Agreement Tracker - Ithaka S+R

In recent months, several publishers have announced that they are licensing their scholarly content for use as training data for LLMs. These deals

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Stefanie Haustein @stefhaustein.scholcommlab.ca · 12d

So cool, love this! #AcademicSky #ResearchData #PeerReview

PREreview @prereview.bsky.social · 12d

Our dataset review workflow is now ready for testing 🎉
Try it out at sandbox.prereview.org! So far, this supports datasets from @datadryad.bsky.social
We’ll be supporting more repositories as we go. Email [email protected] with your suggestions.

Read more: content.prereview.org/prereview-pl...

PREreview platform news, 26 September 2025

We are back! After a brief summer break, it’s time for another weeknote from PREreview.org!

content.prereview.org

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Stefanie Haustein @stefhaustein.scholcommlab.ca · 12d

I know what you mean! My partner has also become our kid's friend's favorite monster to chase them.

Stefanie Haustein @stefhaustein.scholcommlab.ca · 12d

That sounds like work by @nataschachtena.bsky.social Probably this:
doi.org/10.31222/osf...
or this:
doi.org/10.1108/JD-0...
All relevant should be listed here: www.scholcommlab.ca/research/pre...

Preprints

Preprints and Open Peer Review Exploring evolving models of research dissemination and review—and what they mean for science, scholarship, and society. The use of preprints has grown rapidly, part…

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Ludo Waltman @ludowaltman.bsky.social · 12d

We need good practices for DOI registration for publish-review-curate platforms like @metaror.bsky.social and others.

@andre-brasil.bsky.social and I wrote a blog post about this: doi.org/10.64000/76j...

Together with @crossref.bsky.social we hope to receive input from the community on this issue!

Innovation in scientific publishing and its implications for Crossref DOI registration practices - Request for input - Crossref

Lots of exciting innovations are being made in scientific publishing, often raising fundamental questions about established publishing practices. In this guest post, Ludo Waltman and André Brasil disc...

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Anna Abalkina @abalkina.bsky.social · 13d

I’m looking at a specific paper mill in India. So far, I have detected 339 papers, 105 of which were published in 2025. Only the biggest publishers are being targeted. Only two papers have been retracted.
This is the dashboard of a paper mill.
lookerstudio.google.com/reporting/36...
#papermills

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Stefanie Haustein @stefhaustein.scholcommlab.ca · 27d

LSE Impact Blog @lseimpactblog.bsky.social · 27d

Shaking up the scholarly publishing market – Why caps on APCs could backfire - Impact of Social Sciences

An analysis of APC pricing and the impact of proposed NIH caps on APCs, suggest imposing price caps on author fees could lead to further market concentration.

blogs.lse.ac.uk

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hyperbolbri @astrobri.bsky.social · 16d

Of course, the first Mertonian norm is communism, so ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯
#OASPA2025
I was reading an interesting paper adjacent to Merton recently, and can't remember it now, of course, but I *am* delighted by the abstract for this paper and DECAY as an acronym: www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

www.tandfonline.com

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Professor Caroline Edwards @theblochian.bsky.social · 16d

Prof. Demmy. Verbeke explaining that KU Leuven Library has made a stand & spends zero budget on APCs or TAs. Instead, the library invests in nonprofit #openaccess publishing & infrastructure #OASPA2025

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Juan Pablo Alperin @juancommander.scholcommlab.ca · 17d

The Eurotour continues. After giving talk at ETH in Zurich, presenting at #OSFair2025 at CERN in Geneva, just arrived in Belgium for #OASPA2025. See some of you there!

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aj boston @aj-boston.bsky.social · 20d

UBC has purchased access to Sage's backfiles and canceled its subscriptions, looking to interlibrary loan Sage journal article requests going forward. They chose Sage because the UBC community publishes in and reads Sage titles the least of the five big pubs.

about.library.ubc.ca/2025/09/17/a...

An update from the University Librarian: Rethinking the sustainability of our subscription model

Upcoming changes to UBC Library's Collection budget and how we're planning for the future.

about.library.ubc.ca

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Public Knowledge Project @pkp.sfu.ca · 21d

🔊 Call for translators #NISOPlus25 @nisoinfo.bsky.social

The Publication Facts Label #PFLabel is ready for production release (OJS v3.3-3.5) in 9 languages but is ~ 400 words short en français. Can you help?

Learn more about the PFL and the call: pkp.sfu.ca/2025/09/03/p...

#OpenJournalSystems

Call for translators: Contribute to the Publication Facts Label - Public Knowledge Project

Hello translators! PKP is currently seeking volunteers to help with translations for the brand new Publication Facts Label (PFL) plugin!

pkp.sfu.ca

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Stefanie Haustein @stefhaustein.scholcommlab.ca · 21d

Glad I had deleted my account ages ago.. this is just 🤯

Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.bsky.social · 21d

I'm sorry, worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable permission to my voice and likeness? For what now? In any manner for any purpose???

This is in academia/.edu's new ToS, which you're prompted to agree to on login. Anyway I'll be jumping ship. You can find my stuff at hcommons.org.

By creating an Account with Academia.edu, you grant us a worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable license, permission, and consent for Academia.edu to use your Member Content and your personal information (including, but not limited to, your name, voice, signature, photograph, likeness, city, institutional affiliations, citations, mentions, publications, and areas of interest) in any manner, including for the purpose of advertising, selling, or soliciting the use or purchase of Academia.edu's Services.

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Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · 22d

"The university will stop sharing the data required to be included in the ranking as of 2026. As a result, Sorbonne University will no longer feature in future rankings produced by THE, which include the World University Rankings, the Rankings by Subject or the Impact Rankings."

Excellent!

Sorbonne University decides to withdraw from the Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings

As of 2026, Sorbonne University will no longer submit data to the Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings. The decision comes as part of a wider approach to promote open science and ref...

www.sorbonne-universite.fr

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Joel Wood 🇨🇦 @joelwwood.bsky.social · 23d

Whoa! Elsevier fired @richardtol.bsky.social, longstanding Editor-in-Chief of the journal Energy Economics. Richard's side of the story should be ringing alarm bells. #EconSky

Fraud and cover-up
richardtol.substack.com/p/fraud-and-...

Fraud and cover-up

richardtol.substack.com

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Stefanie Haustein @stefhaustein.scholcommlab.ca · 23d

FOMO!

Public Knowledge Project @pkp.sfu.ca · 23d

Full house today at @cern.bsky.social #OSFair2025 @osfair.bsky.social panel, Open Research Europe: A Catalyst toward Equitable Publishing, with PKP's Scientific Director Juan Pablo Alperin @juancommander.scholcommlab.ca!

Hope everyone is having a great time!

#OpenScience #ORE #OpenJournalSystems

Juan Pablo Alperin speaking to a full house on a panel on Open Research Europe and PKP's Open Journal Systems (OJS) at the CERN Open Science Fair 2025. The slide on the projector shows the distribution of more than 50,000 OJS installations world wide.

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Public Knowledge Project @pkp.sfu.ca · 23d

Although the number of journals using #OpenJournalSystems #OJS for #ScholarlyPublishing has skyrocketed since this article's publication, it's still well worth the read if you're interested in how OJS has shaped inclusive, multilingual global publishing:

direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...

#OSFair2025

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Stefanie Haustein @stefhaustein.scholcommlab.ca · 23d

Watching Kelly Cobey (@heartinstitute.bsky.social) and @lariviev.bsky.social during their expert hearing at Meeting No. 2 of the House of Commons Standing Committee on Science and Research (SRSR) right now. Too bad ParlVu is very shaky on my end..

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PREreview @prereview.bsky.social · 27d

Today we responded to the NIH Request for Information on publication costs, peer review, and publishing best practices.

Transformative change won’t come from simply shifting who pays fees—it will come from grassroots action and top-down reform of what we value & reward.

zenodo.org/records/1710...

PREreview response to the NIH NOT-OD-25-138 Request for Information on Maximizing Research Funds by Limiting Allowable Publishing Costs

This document was submitted by PREreview on September 11, 2025 in response to the NIH NOT-OD-25-138 Request for Information on Maximizing Research Funds by Limiting Allowable Publishing Costs (RFI). I...

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