#scholcomm — Public Fediverse posts
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What makes Dryad the right home for human research data?
Ask Dr. Ann Van de Wickel of University of Minnesota Medical School.
#opendata #openresearch #openscience #medicine #humansubjects #humanresearch #scholcomm
https://blog.datadryad.org/2026/05/12/what-makes-dryad-the-right-home-for-human-research-data/
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Kudos to #Yale for adopting a #RightsRetention #OpenAccess policy, to take effect July 1, 2026. guides.library.yale.edu/FAS-SEAS-Aut... #Academia #Copyright #GreenOA #ScholComm
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Kudos to #Yale for adopting a #RightsRetention #OpenAccess policy, to take effect July 1, 2026. guides.library.yale.edu/FAS-SEAS-Aut... #Academia #Copyright #GreenOA #ScholComm
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Kudos to #Yale for adopting a #RightsRetention #OpenAccess policy, to take effect July 1, 2026.
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Kudos to #Yale for adopting a #RightsRetention #OpenAccess policy, to take effect July 1, 2026.
https://guides.library.yale.edu/FAS-SEAS-AuthorRightsPolicy -
Kudos to #Yale for adopting a #RightsRetention #OpenAccess policy, to take effect July 1, 2026.
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Kudos to #Yale for adopting a #RightsRetention #OpenAccess policy, to take effect July 1, 2026.
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Kudos to #Yale for adopting a #RightsRetention #OpenAccess policy, to take effect July 1, 2026.
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"Throughout my career, I have been motivated by a commitment to strengthening the conditions for #research and #HigherEducation, driven by the belief that strong research systems ultimately benefit society as a whole." — Curt Rice
📰 https://www.coalition-s.org/coalition-s-appoints-curt-rice-as-director/ -
cOAlition S is pleased to announce the appointment of Curt Rice as its new Director. With this appointment and the adoption of the 2026–2030 Strategy, we move together to advance various models of open scholarship.
https://www.coalition-s.org/coalition-s-appoints-curt-rice-as-director/
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Update. Alan Colin-Arce has written an excellent slide deck on multilingual publishing in the humanities and social sciences.
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Update. Alan Colin-Arce has written an excellent slide deck on multilingual publishing in the humanities and social sciences.
https://sisu.ut.ee/wp-content/uploads/sites/903/Humanities-and-SS-Commons.pdf -
Update. Alan Colin-Arce has written an excellent slide deck on multilingual publishing in the humanities and social sciences.
https://sisu.ut.ee/wp-content/uploads/sites/903/Humanities-and-SS-Commons.pdf -
Update. Alan Colin-Arce has written an excellent slide deck on multilingual publishing in the humanities and social sciences.
https://sisu.ut.ee/wp-content/uploads/sites/903/Humanities-and-SS-Commons.pdf -
Update. Alan Colin-Arce has written an excellent slide deck on multilingual publishing in the humanities and social sciences.
https://sisu.ut.ee/wp-content/uploads/sites/903/Humanities-and-SS-Commons.pdf -
#OpenPharma just published a vision statement calling on #pharma companies to make their research #OpenAccess.
https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/16/5/e104128The vision statement calls for OpenAccess to texts, #OpenData (under #FAIR principles), open #PIDS (#ORCID and #ROR), plain language summaries, and patient involvement.
It understands that the goal is a stretch. and distinguishes easier short-term goals from harder long-term goals, while arguing for both.
OpenPharma is funded by voluntary contributions from pharma companies, and considers itself a collaboration of "a number of important stakeholder groups: the pharmaceutical industry, publishers, patients, academics, regulators, editors, non-pharmaceutical funders and societies."
https://www.openpharma.blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/2020-01-15-Charter-of-Open-Pharma.pdfAlso see the OpenPharma home page.
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#OpenPharma just published a vision statement calling on #pharma companies to make their research #OpenAccess.
https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/16/5/e104128The vision statement calls for OpenAccess to texts, #OpenData (under #FAIR principles), open #PIDS (#ORCID and #ROR), plain language summaries, and patient involvement.
It understands that the goal is a stretch. and distinguishes easier short-term goals from harder long-term goals, while arguing for both.
OpenPharma is funded by voluntary contributions from pharma companies, and considers itself a collaboration of "a number of important stakeholder groups: the pharmaceutical industry, publishers, patients, academics, regulators, editors, non-pharmaceutical funders and societies."
https://www.openpharma.blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/2020-01-15-Charter-of-Open-Pharma.pdfAlso see the OpenPharma home page.
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#OpenPharma just published a vision statement calling on #pharma companies to make their research #OpenAccess.
https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/16/5/e104128The vision statement calls for OpenAccess to texts, #OpenData (under #FAIR principles), open #PIDS (#ORCID and #ROR), plain language summaries, and patient involvement.
It understands that the goal is a stretch. and distinguishes easier short-term goals from harder long-term goals, while arguing for both.
OpenPharma is funded by voluntary contributions from pharma companies, and considers itself a collaboration of "a number of important stakeholder groups: the pharmaceutical industry, publishers, patients, academics, regulators, editors, non-pharmaceutical funders and societies."
https://www.openpharma.blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/2020-01-15-Charter-of-Open-Pharma.pdfAlso see the OpenPharma home page.
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#OpenPharma just published a vision statement calling on #pharma companies to make their research #OpenAccess.
https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/16/5/e104128The vision statement calls for OpenAccess to texts, #OpenData (under #FAIR principles), open #PIDS (#ORCID and #ROR), plain language summaries, and patient involvement.
It understands that the goal is a stretch. and distinguishes easier short-term goals from harder long-term goals, while arguing for both.
OpenPharma is funded by voluntary contributions from pharma companies, and considers itself a collaboration of "a number of important stakeholder groups: the pharmaceutical industry, publishers, patients, academics, regulators, editors, non-pharmaceutical funders and societies."
https://www.openpharma.blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/2020-01-15-Charter-of-Open-Pharma.pdfAlso see the OpenPharma home page.
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#OpenPharma just published a vision statement calling on #pharma companies to make their research #OpenAccess.
https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/16/5/e104128The vision statement calls for OpenAccess to texts, #OpenData (under #FAIR principles), open #PIDS (#ORCID and #ROR), plain language summaries, and patient involvement.
It understands that the goal is a stretch. and distinguishes easier short-term goals from harder long-term goals, while arguing for both.
OpenPharma is funded by voluntary contributions from pharma companies, and considers itself a collaboration of "a number of important stakeholder groups: the pharmaceutical industry, publishers, patients, academics, regulators, editors, non-pharmaceutical funders and societies."
https://www.openpharma.blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/2020-01-15-Charter-of-Open-Pharma.pdfAlso see the OpenPharma home page.
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"The _Astrophysical Journal_ accepted our AI's [fast radio burst] discovery after three rounds of peer review, but the AAS editorial office then halted the paper over an AI-disclosure review, not the science." blankline.org/newsroom/ai-... #AI #Astronomy #PeerReview #ScholComm
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"The _Astrophysical Journal_ accepted our #AI's [fast radio burst] discovery after three rounds of peer review, but the AAS editorial office then halted the paper over an AI-disclosure review, not the science."
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April issue of our Scholarly Communications Newsletter is out! #ScholComm
🔸 #OAForward initiative
🔸 CAUL's 100,000th OA article
🔸 National vision for archives in England
🔸 British Academy's report on #greenOA for longform works
🔸 List of #diamondOA initiatives and more
https://mailchi.mp/a26423ef221e/british-library-scholarly-communications-newsletter-april-2026 -
Update. Related:
"Opening Pandora's box: Paper mills in conference proceedings."
https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.22458From the abstract: "This study aims to identify papers in conference proceedings whose titles have been offered for sale on social media platforms. We collected more than 4,000 unique publication offers from more than 200 social media channels and used semi-automated methods along with human assessment to match offers with papers published in IEEE conference proceedings. We identified 1,720 papers in 286 IEEE conference proceedings, accounting for up to 23.51% of an individual conference. These problematic papers are co-authored by more than 6,500 researchers from over 3,500 affiliations in 55 countries."
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Update. You can now see the preprint itself, on #arXiv.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.24576From the abstract: "We assemble BuyTheBy, a large, annotated dataset of timestamped, text-based paper mill advertisements from seven businesses operating out of seven different countries. The dataset consists of 18,710 individual advertisements, of which 15,839 have prices listed. Among these there are 20,598 positions listed as for sale on 5,567 unique products in 14 different product categories with 51,812 timestamped price data points."
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"Thousands of shady ads sell paper authorship for cash, large-scale investigation finds."
https://www.science.org/content/article/thousands-shady-ads-sell-paper-authorship-cash-large-scale-investigation-findsPS: This article from _Science_ reports important news about paper mills. But apart from that, note that it draws from an #arXiv preprint that hasn't been released yet. It's a preprint preprint, and from _Science_. A nice example of the ongoing #ScholComm transformation.
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Update. "Many [non-native writers of English] cannot confidently judge whether their original expression is better than the AI's suggestion. Some do not even suspect that their original phrasing might carry nuance worth preserving…Thus, AI does not affect all writers equally. Native speakers tend to use AI to clarify their writing while preserving their voice. Non-native speakers often use AI in a fundamentally different way: their voice is replaced by a standardized, fluent, but impersonal tone. In many cases, they do not even notice that this has happened. This difference is unfair, yet largely invisible."
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Update. The passage in the #Trump budget criticizing expensive #subscriptions and #APCs (previous post, this thread) triggered a debate in the House of Representatives.
"US lawmakers intensify scrutiny of scientific-publishing practices."
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01251-y"From ‘paper mills’ that sell authorships on fake or low-quality research papers to the costs associated with open-access publishing, US lawmakers are paying increasing attention to widely debated issues in scientific publishing. In a rare show of unity, members of the US House of Representatives from both sides of the political aisle agreed at a hearing that these issues deserve more attention from government — but there was less unity on what the solutions should be."
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✅ In PKP's "Archipelago" - "The Publication Facts Label: Put your journal's integrity in black and white"
"The #PFLabel will inspire #editors and #authors to comply with #PublishingStandards... (and) for editors, keep an eye on days-to-publication and pursue #indexing opportunities...
The first 500+ journals have it in place and the number grows every day. The more widely it is used... the better it serves as a trust marker..."
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Update. I'm very glad to see the #DOAJ endorse the #PKP "Publication Facts" label.
https://blog.doaj.org/2026/04/22/introducing-the-publication-facts-label-another-tool-in-your-research-integrity-toolkit/I hope this nudges more publishers to use the labels. In any case, it should lead more readers to expect publishers to use them.
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Update. I'm very glad to see the #DOAJ endorse the #PKP "Publication Facts" label.
https://blog.doaj.org/2026/04/22/introducing-the-publication-facts-label-another-tool-in-your-research-integrity-toolkit/I hope this nudges more publishers to use the labels. In any case, it should lead more readers to expect publishers to use them.
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Update. I'm very glad to see the #DOAJ endorse the #PKP "Publication Facts" label.
https://blog.doaj.org/2026/04/22/introducing-the-publication-facts-label-another-tool-in-your-research-integrity-toolkit/I hope this nudges more publishers to use the labels. In any case, it should lead more readers to expect publishers to use them.
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💎 In PKP's Archipelago, Regional Feature: Reflections from the 3rd Global Summit on #DiamondOpenAccess in conversation with Mark Huskisson (@markhusk)
This article is packed full! India #OA landscape, #OpenJournalSystems use, important takeaways and more:
https://pkp.sfu.ca/2026/03/31/reflections-3rd-global-summit-diamond-open-access-mark-huskisson/
Some mentions in the article: @tibhannover @DOAJ @crossref @SCOSSfunding @unesco
#OpenAccess #DiamondOA #ScholComm #ScholarlyPublishing #FOSS #OpenInfrastructure #AcademicChatter
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Update. This article in Nature makes the case that reusing #OpenData for new purposes is a good solution for "cash-strapped and early-career researchers" who don't have the means to generate their own.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00434-xTrue enough. But it undervalues the utility of past data for all relevant new projects, even well-funded new projects. The present thread gives some examples. Open data are not only, and not even primarily, for the indigent. They're for the savvy, those who notice their relevance, regardless of means.
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Sufyan bin Uzayr and I just created a list of major initiatives for #Diamond #OpenAccess in the #OpenAccessDirectory (#OAD).
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Now available: the recording and slides from our community webinar on configuring Dataverse to register DataCite DOIs. Explore DOI registration in Dataverse, tips for improving discoverability with metadata, and other practical guidance from the Dataverse Project & DataCite: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuNgI7crG5M
#Dataverse #DataCite #DOI #PersistentIdentifiers #PID #Metadata #ResearchData #OpenScience #ScholComm #DataManagement
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Now available: the recording and slides from our community webinar on configuring Dataverse to register DataCite DOIs. Explore DOI registration in Dataverse, tips for improving discoverability with metadata, and other practical guidance from the Dataverse Project & DataCite: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuNgI7crG5M
#Dataverse #DataCite #DOI #PersistentIdentifiers #PID #Metadata #ResearchData #OpenScience #ScholComm #DataManagement
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Update. For scholars with English as a second language, "#AI tools are described…not as shortcuts, but as equalizers. They reduce time-to-submission, lower financial burdens, and allow researchers to focus on ideas rather than articulation. For early-career scholars and those in resource-limited institutions, AI-based language assistance often replaces services that were previously inaccessible or prohibitively expensive. Yet they are not sure if the way they are using AI is permissible."
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Update. Here's the key passage from the new #Trump budget proposing a "Government-Wide Prohibition on Publishing and Subscription Fees." See p. 17.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/budget_fy2027.pdf"The Budget ends the diversion of research dollars to high priced publishers across the Government. The Budget prohibits the use of Federal funds for expensive subscriptions to academic journals and prohibitively high publishing costs unless required by Federal statute or approved in advance by a Federal agency. Research funded by taxpayers should be publicly accessible; yet many publications charge the Government to both publish and to access the same research study. There are numerous low-cost outlets to make federally-funded research publicly available."
h/t Jim O'Donnell
#APCs #DoubleDipping #OpenAccess #Publishing #ScholComm #Subscriptions
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Sometime in the last month, the number of visitors to the home wiki of the Harvard Open Access Project -- my project at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society -- passed 1 million. cyber.harvard.edu/hoap/Main_Page #BKC #Harvard #HOAP #OpenAccess #ScholComm
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Sometime in the last month, the number of visitors to the home wiki of the Harvard Open Access Project (#HOAP) -- my project at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society (@bkc) -- passed 1 million.
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#CancerResearchUK will stop paying #APCs for funded researchers.
https://news.cancerresearchuk.org/2026/04/01/why-we-wont-be-funding-open-access-publishing-any-more/PS. So far, so good. There are strong reasons to move away from APCs. For a summary, see Recommendation 3 of the Budapest Open Access Initiative 20th anniversary statement in 2022. (Disclosure: I was the lead author.)
https://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/boai20/#rec-3Unfortunately the Cancer Research UK announcement is marred by several false assertions and assumptions about #OpenAccess.
* Its narrow decision is to stop funding APCs, but its headline is that it will stop funding OA publishing as such. It leaves the distinct false impression that all OA journals charge APCs.
* Deep in the text it says that OA "hasn't worked. At least not in its current form." That looks like a recognition that not all OA depends on APCs. But it isn't explicit and didn't prevent careless language elsewhere in the statement.
* It never acknowledges that no-APC OA (#DiamondOA) journals exist, let alone that they constitute the majority of OA journals.
* It does acknowledge the existence of no-APC OA through repositories, or #GreenOA. But it falsely suggests that green OA must be embargoed. Just to give one notable set of counter-examples, all the federal OA policies in the US require unembargoed green OA.
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@johanrooryck.bsky.social just wrote an excellent reply to a range of objections and misunderstandings about #DiamondOA. doi.org/10.58079/15yxa #APCs #OpenAccess #ScholComm
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#JohanRooryck (@johanrooryck) just wrote an excellent reply to a range of objections and misunderstandings about #DiamondOA.
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#JohanRooryck (@johanrooryck) just wrote an excellent reply to a range of objections and misunderstandings about #DiamondOA.
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#JohanRooryck (@johanrooryck) just wrote an excellent reply to a range of objections and misunderstandings about #DiamondOA.
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#JohanRooryck (@johanrooryck) just wrote an excellent reply to a range of objections and misunderstandings about #DiamondOA.
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#JohanRooryck (@johanrooryck) just wrote an excellent reply to a range of objections and misunderstandings about #DiamondOA.
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Six #ASAPbio fellows asked four #LLMs to describe the strengths and weaknesses of #preprints. Here are the results.
https://asapbio.org/interim-findings-from-an-investigation-into-llm-responses-about-preprints-a-2025-asapbio-fellows-project/The same fellows asked the same LLMs to ingest six preprints and their #PeerReviewed counterparts, and compare them for quality and rigor. Good question. But they've not yet analyzed the data and will presumably report soon.
PS: I'm interested in a related question. When LLMs answer research questions, do they treat on-topic preprints and on-topic postprints (peer-reviewed articles) as equivalent in weight or credibility? If not, how exactly do they take any differences into account?
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1/ As far as I can tell, there are no #AI tools to help determine whether an arbitrary #book is in the #PublicDomain for an arbitrary country.
I respect the best of the non-AI tools and services already doing parts of this complex job, such as the #HathiTrust Rights Determination, #Stanford Copyright Renewal Database, and the #PublicDomainReview Guide to Finding Public Domain Works Online.
But there seems to be a niche for testing to see whether AI tools might do this job better and faster.
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