#scholcomm — Public Fediverse posts

"When Arna Mitchell submitted her article critiquing a proposal for different standards of practice for #Māori and non-Māori clients in clinical #psychology, she thought it would be too controversial to publish because it challenged views becoming influential among professional and academic circles."

A #NewZealand journal deleted a paper for potential harm to Māori months after #publishing it – #Retraction Watch
https://retractionwatch.com/2026/08/19/new-zealand-journal-clinical-psychology-maori/

#science #ScholComm #research

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#Code4Lib #OpenInfra #OpenSource #OpenSourceJobs #ScholComm #OpenJournalSystems #OpenMonographPress #OpenPreprintSystems

Researchers Ted Habermann and Erin Robinson, Ph.D. are taking a closer look at how public datasets measure up to #FAIRdata standards.

Dryad was found to have some of the most complete metadata of the 595 repositories sampled, and was the only major generalist repository in the top 25.

Only three university repositories with a few hundred records apiece boasted more complete metadata.

Read more ⤵️
https://metadatagamechangers.com/blog/2026/7/6/a-decade-of-fair-metadata

#datasharing #opendata #scholcomm

🌍 Curious about the global landscape of journals using #OpenJournalSystems (OJS) in 2025? Check out this interactive visualization using PKP Beacon Data!

With data on 62,549 active journals using OJS, click on a country to get its overall rank and rank in the region, number of active journals, number of articles published, and software version use.

Built by Nate Wright. Explore at https://pkpbeacon.notthisway.com/

#PKPBeacon #ScholComm #ScholarlyPublishing #OpenAccess #AcademicChatter

Very glad to see this. I'm the crank down the hall who always liked HTML better than PDF.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.3103/S0005105526700305

#A11y #Dynamism #Formats #Interactivity #ScholComm

Vladimir Moskovkin proposes an interesting "reform model for scholarly communication that combines elements of centralized access —based on adapting the Soviet VINITI experience to the digital environment— with decentralized Diamond Open Access platforms."

PS: This is the first time I've seen anyone draw the Soviet #VINITI model into #OpenAccess / #ScholComm discussions.

Here's some background on the model, if it's new to you.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VINITI

#Centralization #Decentralization #DiamondOA

When #AI tools hallucinate citations, their made-up author names are not random. "We show that #LLMs do not merely default to high-probability individual names when generating fictional experts: they produce correlated character ensembles, pairs and trios [of co-authors] whose co-occurrence rates far exceed chance and are consistent across independent generations."
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.02184

They fool people and tools:

"We identify 1,655 ghost-authored records claiming nonexistent journals with fabricated publication dates…Server-side #DataCite timestamps prove deliberate backdating…These carry real #DOIs…making them harvestable by any scholarly aggregator that ingests DOI metadata."

#Citations #Hallucinations #ScholComm

Share this with #humanities colleagues who need to hear the message from humanities colleagues.

"How #OpenAccess Is Expanding the Public Reach of Humanistic Scholarship."
www.acls.org/news/how-ope...

#ScholComm

How Open Access Is Expanding t...

Share this with #humanities colleagues who need to hear the message from humanities colleagues.

"How #OpenAccess Is Expanding the Public Reach of Humanistic Scholarship."
https://www.acls.org/news/how-open-access-is-expanding-the-public-reach-of-humanistic-scholarship/

#ScholComm

Passionate about open science and open data? Join the team at Dryad!

We're searching for a remote Partnership Development Manager to help build our network of partner societies, publishers & institutions.

https://bit.ly/4xeizDC

#publishingjobs #scholcomm #scholcomms #opendata #openscience #openaccess #openresearch #biology #science

New study: "#Preprints are increasingly treated as legitimate, autonomous objects of #citation independent of their later publication status."
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.25220v1

PS: I'm fine with this, and so are the authors of this study.

I'm from the humanities, where it's common to cite unpublished letters and manuscripts, countless fiction and nonfiction genres never subject to peer review, and even an occasional "personal communication to the author". Cite your best sources, or your actual sources, and let readers judge their relevance and credibility. Every citation carries an implicit #FWIW ("for what it's worth").

I've seen fellow scholars insist that citable works must (1) be published, (2) be peer-reviewed, (3) have DOIs, or (4) most absurdly, be PDFs. To me, this is superstitious.

#ScholComm

Watching with interest:

"Federal lawsuit accuses four major publishers of extorting article processing charges."
https://retractionwatch.com/2026/07/31/federal-lawsuit-major-publishers-article-processing-charges-false-claims-act/

"A lawsuit filed under the U.S. False Claims Act accuses four major publishers of perpetrating a decade-long scheme to defraud the government by charging exorbitant #APCs. The case…claims Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley and Informa [Taylor & Francis] forced U.S. research institutions to submit false claims to the government for reimbursement through article fees up to 10 times the cost of processing the articles."

#Litigation #Publishers #ScholComm #USLaw

Update. The good, the bad, and the ugly about non-native English speakers using #AI to help with their English-language publications: "The good, reducing linguistic inequalities by improving paper quality and decreasing language-related challenges; the bad, involving inaccurate or misleading AI suggestions, over-reliance on AI tools, and diminished engagement with manuscripts; and the ugly, characterized by failure to disclose AI use, lack of clear guidelines for responsible AI integration in research, homogenization of academic writing, and the emergence of new forms of inequality."
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/leap.2070

#Multilingualism #MultilingualResearch #ScholComm

Open infrastructures like Dryad have a vital role to play in upholding research standards, saving researcher time and effort, and publishing and preserving vital research outputs.

Catch up with our latest work, and learn about what's coming next from Dryad.

READ MORE ⤵️
https://blog.datadryad.org/2026/07/28/dryad-community-update-july-2026/

#opendata #openaccess #openscience #scholcomm #publishing #journals

I just learned about the feminist economist Marianne Ferber.

Her last article, "The Gender Gap in Citations: Does It Persist?", was published in 2011, when she was 88 years old!

It builds on her earlier article, "Citations: Are They an Objective Measure of Scholarly Merit?" (1986), which ends with this absolute banger of a sentence:
"Citations, then, should not be regarded as unbiased indicators of merit."

#bibliometrics #ScholComm

Dryad is seeking a Partnership Development Manager to expand the global community of institutions, publishing organization and academic societies.

blog.datadryad.org/2026/07/27/n...

#publishing #publishingjobs #scholcomm #scholcomms #opendata #openscience #openaccess #openreesarch

𝘈𝘯𝘯𝘢𝘭𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘏𝘦𝘱𝘢𝘵𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘺 celebrates its highest journal impact factor (#JIF) ever. At the same time, it editorializes against the "enshittification" of academic publishing caused by JIFs.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1665268126000803

PS: Even journals that deplore JIFs can have high JIFs. They don't have to stop talking about their JIFs. But when they mention them, they should do it this way.

#Metrics #ScholComm

I just used my institution's subscription to read this #paywalled article from #Sage.
https://doi.org/10.1177/08912432261462166

When the Sage platform recognized that I was an authorized user, it asked me to click my consent to its terms of use before showing me the article text.
https://journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/terms-of-use

First, I've never seen that before.

Second, one of the terms purports to waive my fair-use rights. "Except as expressly permitted by this Agreement or your separate Access Agreement(s) or other agreement(s) (if applicable) or Sage's Article Access Sharing policy, you may not…copy any portion of the Site and/or Services."

BTW, it would take wide consultation and at least a full day for me to figure out whether any "separate Access Agreement(s) or other agreement(s) (if applicable)" create exceptions allowing me to copy short passages "for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching… , scholarship, or research" -- to quote 17 USC §107, the US statute on fair use.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/107

#Copyright #FairUse #ScholComm

Dryad makes life easier for authors AND journal data editors.

We work directly with authors to ensure that every dataset we publish meets the #FAIRdata principles. And we support journals at every stage of their data availability journey.

https://bit.ly/4yWmabl

#opendata #openscience #openresearch #researchintegrity #data #datasharing #scholcomm #scolcomms #journal #editor #journaleditor #dataeditor

Articles receive about 11% fewer views on weekends than on weekdays. An even stronger seasonal effect appears during summer: in June-August, the average number of daily article views is roughly 50% lower than during the rest of the year.

:doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-026-05710-1

So, if your paper is being published today (in the middle of summer, just before the weekend) and the publication gets delayed... it might even work in your favour. 🙂

#Scientometrics #OpenAccess #Bibliometrics #ScholComm

#ISBE2026 begins today. To celebrate the congress, we're sharing some of the latest Dryad datasets linked to society journal articles...while wishing we were in Turin too!

First up is "Data from: Body condition reveals hidden correlations between co-infection and behavior in sunfish"

📊 Data on Dryad: https://datadryad.org/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.s4mw6m9j8

🔍 📖 Article in Behavioral Ecology: https://academic.oup.com/beheco/article/36/4/araf055/8145617?login=false

#opendata #openresearch #openscience #behavioralecology #science #scholcomm #behavioralecology #ecology

Update. "By analyzing 2,209,987 multilingual publications from 183,457 projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of #China, we reveal a strong preference for English as the publication language in China, with 66.2% of publications in English versus 33.8% in Chinese…We find only a minor overlap between English and Chinese-language publications…[highlighting] the risk of underestimating China’s scientific output by only counting English-language publications"
https://academic.oup.com/rev/article-abstract/doi/10.1093/reseval/rvae036/7746712

#Multilingualism #MultilingualResearch #ScholComm

I'd have thought that plain-language summaries of academic articles could be OA or non-OA. Very glad to see that the emerging standardized definition requires them to be OA.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

#OpenAccess #ScholComm

Cross-publisher agreement on t...

I'd have thought that plain-language summaries of academic articles could be OA or non-OA. Very glad to see that the emerging standardized definition requires them to be OA.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03007995.2026.2700975

#OpenAccess #ScholComm

New study: "We show…that research assessment is driven more by differences between evaluators than by difference in the evaluated research."
arxiv.org/abs/2607.09783

#Academia #Assessment #PeerReview #ScholComm #Universities

Judges matter more than papers...

New study: "We show…that research assessment is driven more by differences between evaluators than by difference in the evaluated research."
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.09783

#Academia #Assessment #PeerReview #ScholComm #Universities

"Did U.S. scrutiny of foreign research drive prominent geneticist to decline authorship?"
https://www.science.org/content/article/did-u-s-scrutiny-foreign-research-drive-prominent-geneticist-decline-authorship
(#paywalled)

All five US co-authors of a paper with both US and Chinese funding ask to be removed from the author list and moved to the acknowledgments section.

"The outcome offers an example of the gymnastics many researchers are contemplating as they try to cope with growing U.S. government scrutiny of research collaborations, especially those with Chinese institutions."

#China #Collaboration #DefendResearch #Funding #ScholComm #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics