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  1. Update. The #CDC-censored research vindicating #COVID #vaccines has now been published in 𝘑𝘈𝘔𝘈 𝘕𝘦𝘵𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬 𝘖𝘱𝘦𝘯:

    "Interim Estimated Effectiveness of 2025-2026 COVID-19 Vaccines in Adults Using a Test-Negative Design."
    jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman

    Also see the Washington Post article on its censorship and publication.
    washingtonpost.com/health/2026
    (#paywalled)

    #Censorship #DefendResearch #Medicine #StreisandEffect #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics #Vaccines

  2. New study: "Open access publishing: is urology ready? A survey of authors, readers, and editorial board’s knowledge, impressions and satisfaction."
    link.springer.com/article/10.1
    (#paywalled)

    Not a good way to run a survey or report the results.

    * The results are paywalled.
    * The article does not include the survey questions.
    * The survey defines #GoldOA, #GreenOA, #DiamondOA, and #HybridOA. But the article only reports the attitudes toward APC-based gold OA. No surprise, they're negative. Yet disdain for #APCs only strengthens the reason to ask about green and diamond OA. If the survey did ask, then what are the answers? If it didn't ask, then why not?
    * The survey gives a false definition of green OA, saying that it's always embargoed. That's especially odd since under current US federal agency policies, it's never embargoed.

    #Embargoes #ScholComm

  3. New study: "[Impact factor stats for] #OpenAccess journals adhere to #BenfordsLaw more closely than subscribed journals."
    ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/d
    (#paywalled)

    Benford's law is weird & fascinating.
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benford%

    I have no idea what to make of its appearance here.

    The authors' take: "The rate of increase in [non-OA] journals is much higher than that of OA journals…[&] violations of Benford's Law are more frequent in [non-OA] journals compared to open [OA] journals.

    #JIF

  4. Rainer Lüttecken erforscht seine Ahnen: Nachweise bis ins Mittelalter zu Karl dem Großen

    #Kamen. Seit seinem Ruhestand erforscht Rainer Lüttecken seine Vorfahren. Bis ins Mittelalter. Es gibt sogar Hinweise auf eine Verbindung zu Karl dem Großen.

    hellwegeranzeiger.de/kamen/rai (€)

    #paywalled #Ahnenforschung #HellwegerAnzeiger #RainerLüttecken #KarlDerGroße
    @ahnenforschung

  5. New study: When the journal, Neuropsychopharmacology, studied its own articles (a mix of #GreenOA, #GoldOA, #BronzeOA, and non-OA or #paywalled), it found that "easily accessible article content is most often cited by readers, but that the higher #APCs of #Hybrid tier publishing may not guarantee increased scholarly or social impact."
    nature.com/articles/s41386-024

    #CitationImpact, #OACA

  6. A new report on US faculty use of #OER turned up some interesting results.
    primaryresearch.com/AddCart.as

    It's #paywalled & expensive. These excerpts are from the ad.

    "54.55% of faculty under the age of 30 had…used an #OpenAccess #textbook in one of their classes.

    Faculty in #EnvironmentalSciences were the most likely…to have made their lectures available open access online…

    #AfricanAmerican faculty were the most interested in authoring open access educational materials...."

    @academicchatter