#scientificpublishing — Public Fediverse posts

"This is an ongoing list of quality, Open Access (OA) journals in the social sciences, who won’t sell your stuff to AI companies, and don’t charge you fees."
https://ubisurv.net/2024/09/04/radical-open-access-in-the-social-sciences/

(updated as of May 2026)

Curated by David Murakami Wood https://www.uottawa.ca/research-innovation/centre-law-technology-society/people/murakami-wood-david

#ScientificPublishing #SocialSciences

Scandal at Elsevier, *again*:

https://www.chrisbrunet.com/p/third-editor-fired-in-elseviers-citation

As revealed by Chris Brunet.

#ScientificPublishing #RELX #Elsevier

I am rather late to tooting this...

(Also the decision-making process took longer than we expected.
It was a very valuable learning experience!)

This was the first ever start up fund for a mathematics Diamond OA journal.
We decided to support two journal initiatives.

https://www.mathoa.org/announcement/

One of the journals (Combinatorial Commutative Algebra, https://mulpress.mcmaster.ca/CCA/index) has already launched!

With warm congratulations to both projects, we wish you much success in the coming years!

#diamondOA #scientificpublishing #openaccess

What should fluid mechanics papers focus on today?

This editorial argues for a “physics-first” approach: beyond data and simulations, real progress comes from understanding mechanisms and scaling laws.

🔗 https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0329552

#FluidDynamics #Physics #ScientificPublishing #ResearchCulture #OpenScience

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And follow the authors Sukannya Purkayastha, Nils Dycke, and Iryna Gurevych from the Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing Lab (UKP Lab), Technische Universität Darmstadt and National Research Center for Applied Cybersecurity ATHENE, as well as Anne Lauscher from the Data Science Group, University of Hamburg.

See you this week in Rabat 🕌! #EACL2026

#EACL2026 #PeerReview #ScientificPublishing #AIforScience #LLMs #DialogueSystems #Evaluation #ResearchIntegrity #NLP #MachineLearning #UKPLab

Peer Community In and Peer Community Journal: A Two-Step Diamond OA Process Giving Research Communities Back Control of Publishing

https://microblogging.infodocs.eu/2026/03/12/peer-community-in-and-peer-community-journal-a-two-step-diamond-oa-process-giving-research-communities-back-control-of-publishing/

#BarbaraClass #DenisBourguet #DiamondOpenAccess #OpenAccess #PeerCommunityIn #ScholarlyPublishing #ScientificCommunication #ScientificPublishing #ThomasGuillemaud

From Preprint to Published: The Secret Life of Scientific Manuscripts

#ScientificPublishing #Preprints

https://blog.gesis.org/from-preprint-to-published-the-secret-life-of-scientific-manuscripts/

Follow the authors Osama Mohammed Afzal and Iryna Gurevych from the Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing (UKP) Lab, Technische Universität Darmstadt, as well as Preslav Nakov from MBZUAI (Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence) and Tom Hope from Ai2.

See you this #EACL2026 in Rabat 🕌!

#UKPLab #NLP #NLProc #AI #PeerReview #AIforScience #ScientificPublishing #NoveltyDetection #Evaluation #OpenScience

„Die Daten fließen nur in eine Richtung, nämlich von der Wissenschaft zu Elsevier“ – Yuliya Fadeeva zum Datentracking durch Verlage

#DataTracking #ScientificPublishing

https://irights.info/artikel/datentracking-elsevier-yuliya-fadeeva-interview/32777

RE: https://social.sciences.re/@tito/116176928282506850

via @sophiehuiberts

This is a punchy take on the state of science as an industry.

With respect to the specific quote below, it shows what most scientists don't realise about the following three things: the gouging by "reputable" commercial publishers, the "predation" by scam publishers, and the fraud of the shadiest scientists.

These all lie on a continuum.

#scientificintegrity #scientificpublishing #diamondOA #openaccess

The centre Mersenne selected as winner of the 4th FNSO call for projects !
The Mersenne Editorial Submission Hub (MESH) project, proposed by the centre Mersenne, is one of the winners of the fourth call for projects from the National Fund for Open Science (FNSO) in support of open scientific publishing.
More information about the project : https://www.centre-mersenne.org/le-centre-mersenne-laureat-du-4e-appel-a-projets-fnso/

#openaccess #scientificpublishing #FNSO

📣 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"

PKP supports this call, and works to develop and maintain free open software for independent scholarly publishing.

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2511.04820

#ScholComm #AcademicChatter #FOSS #BetterPublishing #ScholarlyPublishing #IndependentPublishing #OpenAccess

@elduvelle @albertcardona @neuralreckoning

To me this question seems to be the issue of the #eLife journal hypothesis: they are providing reviews on preprints. They are basically post-preprint review (like #PubPeer), but unlike PubPeer, they still think (at least they talk of themselves as) a journal.

I think what #eLife and #PubPeer are doing is great. But they cannot be listed in one's CV as "refereed publications" in the way that other gatekept* journals are.

... which gets at the point @jonmsterling made about separating "preprints", "refereed publications" and "titles I'm thinking about writing" (in preparation) on one's CV.

It would be interesting to see how #eLife is still being treated as a "journal" on CVs and for grants and promotion.

BTW, in an earlier discussion, we agreed that one could list eLife papers in one's CV as long as one also included the eLife assessment on one's CV. Wanna bet these authors don't? 🤔

* Yes, I know eLife is gatekept by editors, but the door is opened based on "interesting", not based on "correct". (And, yes, there is evidence that the Glam journals do that as well, but they are at least ostensibly _claiming_ to only publish papers that are "correct".)

#ScientificPublishing

@pixeltracker Cool. My idea of going beyond #BeyondPDF for #ScientificPublishing #OpenScience with #WebStandards :

https://csarven.ca/linked-research-decentralised-web

See e.g. @dokieli https://dokie.li/

#Decentralization #Autonomy #UniversalAccess

Our Managing Editor is heading to Japan 🇯🇵! We're thrilled to announce Marc’s participation in the prestigious Tateshina Conference on Organic Chemistry from Nov 14–16, 2025.

➡️ https://www.beilstein-journals.org/bjoc/news/BELTEFKSO7GRGGLFZP3RY33T6U?M=Y

#EdiTours #OrganicChemistry #ScientificCommunity #ScientificPublishing #BJOC #DiamondOpenAccess 💎 🔓

In about two hours (12:30 UTC) I'll be hosting a hackathon where we'll work on a checklist for generating research collaboration statements. Register for free and join us in the brainstorming: https://bigteamscienceconference.github.io/

#BigTeamScience #BigTeamScience2025 #bts2025 #OpenScience #authorship #contributorship #ScientificPublishing #AcademicChatter

HHMI-funded research must be posted as preprints, including subsequent revisions after peer review:
https://hhmicdn.blob.core.windows.net/policies/Immediate-Access-to-Research.pdf

Effectively implements Plan U as spelled out by @richardsever et al. (2019) here:
https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3000273

Michael Eisen & Prachee Avasthi @PracheeAC go a step further and call the new policy not enough, asking for "HHMI should prohibit the use of any HHMI funds on any aspect of journal publishing" – and indeed, that would bring about much needed change in #ScientificPublishing .
https://thescientistpapers.substack.com/p/open-letter-to-hhmi-on-their-immediate

#HHMI #preprints

'How to be a scientist in a post-journal world' @pracheeac.bsky.social & @mbeisen.bsky.social beautifully explain how a post-Journal world would look, work, & why it would indeed be a better world. 👍 #ScientificPublishing #SciPub #AcademicPublishing #Preprints #OpenScience

How to be a scientist in a pos...

When the peer review and publishing process didn’t go as smooth as it could have been, the editor asks you about it, takes notes, forwards your feedback. From an academic to an academic.

But in the overpriced journals, instead, there is a:

Customer Experience & Insights Manager Data, Insights & Analytics
ELSEVIER | Operations

… that reaches out to you with a form to fill in, even when things went well. For you to do their job. Which I suspect then they feed into “AI” (an LLM). No, I didn’t answer the request.

Besides the 30% pure profit, that’s what #RELX #Elsevier does with your research funds: employ a bunch in bullshit jobs. It’s not like they have to do market research or stay on top of changing conditions. Beyond embarrassing, it’s malpractice. A form of corruption.

And no, I didn’t choose to send the manuscript there, I was merely a middle author.

#ScientificPublishing

“AI slop and the destruction of knowledge”, by @Iris
https://irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2025/08/12/ai-slop-and-the-destruction-of-knowledge/

On Elsevier placing confidently wrong LLM-generated summaries of scientific concepts on the webpages of scientific peer-reviewed papers.

I mean it’s Elsevier, they only care about making money off academics. But you’d think this would undermine their business. Of course, Elsevier employees don’t read the papers they publish much less would understand most of them. How they determined that such summaries were helpful is anyone’s guess; my guess is that someone needed a promotion and offered this as a way to claim to their line managers or investors that Elsevier uses “AI”.

#academia #Elsevier #RELX #ScientificPublishing

Retraction Watch: Fighting coordinated publication fraud is like ‘emptying an overflowing bathtub with a spoon,’ study coauthor says. “Systematic research fraud has outpaced corrective measures and will only keep accelerating, according to a study of problematic publishing practices and the networks that fuel them.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/10/retraction-watch-fighting-coordinated-publication-fraud-is-like-emptying-an-overflowing-bathtub-with-a-spoon-study-coauthor-says/

The Chemistry Club at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Bhopal (IISER Bhopal 🇮🇳) is hosting an online talk “Insights into a journal editor’s tool kit” by Marc Kielmann on August 11 at 4 pm IST (12:30 pm CEST).

➡️ https://www.beilstein-journals.org/bjoc/news/EG4QYRFN4X6M7BOPQC2F3F5YVM?M=Y

#ScientificPublishing #BJOC 💎 🔓

Wenn in deiner Publikationsliste plötzlich ein Artikel zu viel auftaucht, hat womöglich jemand deinen Namen für die Autorenzeile eines Fake-Papers gekapert. Ein Beispiel dafür in unserem Blog: https://www.laborjournal.de/blog/?p=14366 #PredatoryJournals #ScientificIntegrity #ScientificPublishing

Journal Citation Reports 2025 released

https://opensocial.at/display/59c238fc-1068-61ac-900f-b23438858655

The Faculty of Chemistry at the University of Wrocław 🇵🇱 is hosting an online talk “Insights into a journal editor’s tool kit” by Dr. Marc Kielmann on May 8 at 5 pm CEST.

➡️ https://www.beilstein-journals.org/bjoc/news/CRTPM3HWGRNEVKB2WN2RD3YCH4?M=y

#OrganicChemistry #ScientificPublishing #BJOC #DiamondOpenAccess 💎 🔓

@dalonso

Funny, because MIT Press, like most publishers, do even worse to start with. Let's say you want to publish in the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience:

"By your signature below, you hereby grant to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) all your right, title, and interest including copyright in and to the Article."

Ah, they want my copyrights. OK then I suppose they'll pay me for that? No:

"An APC of $1000 is assessed by JoCN for every accepted manuscript".

With that sum I could buy more equipment for our research.

So MIT want me to *pay them* to *give them* my copyrights.

And do MIT Press pay their reviewers for their review work? – Guess the answer...

What we need is a successful action on the part of the academic community to shut down these leeches of work and money.

Long live LibGen!

#libgen #shadowlibraries #copyright #copyleft #academia #scientificpublishing

The Conversation: AI can be a powerful tool for scientists. But it can also fuel research misconduct. “…while AI is allowing scientists to make technological breakthroughs that are otherwise decades away or out of reach entirely, there’s also a darker side to the use of AI in science: scientific misconduct is on the rise.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/21/the-conversation-ai-can-be-a-powerful-tool-for-scientists-but-it-can-also-fuel-research-misconduct/

#Journals | JEOS:RP
#NewArticle #OpenAccess

"Peri-operative intrastromal corneal segmentation after creation of corneal cuts based on laser induced optical breakdown: A perspective study"
✍️ Masoud Mehrjoo et al. #SCHWIND #THAschaffenburg #Germany #Deutschland
Read More➡️ https://bit.ly/3ELvSW5
#europeanoptics
#ScientificPublishing
@ScienceScholar
@academia @phdlife @phdstudents
@academicsunite @academicchatter
@ScienceAdm

#Journals | JEOS:RP
#NewArticle #OpenAccess

"Resolution enhancement methods in optical microscopy for dimensional optical metrology"
✍️ Bernd Bodermann et al.
Read More➡️ https://bit.ly/3QxMcMI
#europeanoptics #ScienceMastodon
#ScientificPublishing
@ScienceScholar
@academia @phdlife @phdstudents
@academicsunite @academicchatter
@ScienceAdm

#Journals | Security and Safety
#NewArticle #OpenAccess

“Efficient verifiable searchable encryption with search and access pattern privacy”
✍️ Axin Wu et al. From #StateKeyLaboratoryofCryptology & #ChineseAcademyofSciences
#Beijing #China.
Read More➡️ https://bit.ly/4bijUj1

#ScienceMastodon #AI #SDGs
#ScientificPublishing
@ScienceScholar
@academia @phdlife @phdstudents
@academicsunite @academicchatter
@ScienceAdm

@olibrendel @brembs @neuralreckoning @thetransmitter

In addition to @OpenAlex , to add here:

* the @scholar https://scholar.archive.org/

* #WorldCat https://search.worldcat.org/ "provided by OCLC, a nonprofit global library organization".

* EuropePMC https://europepmc.org/ , based in Europe and run by EMBL-EBI (EMBL’s European Bioinformatics Institute).

#ScientificPublishing #academia

#Journals | #EPJ Applied Physics
#NewArticle

“Edge-Detected 4DSTEM - effective low-dose diffraction data acquisition method for nanopowder samples in an SEM instrument”

✍️ Nikita Denisov et al. From #UniversityofAntwerp #Belgium
#EPJscience
Read More➡️ https://bit.ly/431rP1W
#ScienceMastodon
#ScientificPublishing
@ScienceScholar
@academia @phdlife @phdstudents
@academicsunite @academicchatter
@ScienceAdm

#Journals | #EPJ Applied Physics
#NewArticle #OpenAccess

"Effect of Tb2O3 on mixed alkali borotellurie glass for enhanced green emission and scintillation efficiency "
✍️Inamullah Khan et al. from #Pakistan #AWKUM

Read More ➡️ https://bit.ly/431EEt5
#ScienceMastodon
#ScientificPublishing
@ScienceScholar
@academia @phdlife @phdstudents
@academicsunite @academicchatter
@ScienceAdm

#Journals | JEOS:RP
#NewArticle #OpenAccess

"Single-shot impulsive stimulated Brillouin microscopy by tailored ultrashort pulses"
✍️ David Krause et al. #TUDresden #TechnischeUniversitätDresden #Germany #Deutschland

Read More➡️ https://bit.ly/3X8eiC7
#europeanoptics #ScienceMastodon
#ScientificPublishing
@ScienceScholar
@academia @phdlife @phdstudents
@academicsunite @academicchatter
@ScienceAdm

#Journals | JEOS:RP
#NewArticle #OpenAccess
"Transformation equation from wavefront aberrations to ray aberrations based on coordinate frames in object space"
✍️ Psang Dain Lin #NationalChengKungUniversity #Taiwan

Read More➡️ https://bit.ly/3X8KYvk
#europeanoptics
#ScienceMastodon
#ScientificPublishing
@ScienceScholar
@academia @phdlife @phdstudents
@academicsunite @academicchatter
@ScienceAdm

#Journals | Security and Safety
#NewArticle #OpenAccess

“Safety-critical nonlinear optimal predictive control with adaptive error elimination algorithm for robotic system”
✍️ Helin Wang #ShanghaiInstituteofTechnology
Read More➡️ https://bit.ly/4gLJfmC
#ScienceMastodon
#ScientificPublishing
@ScienceScholar
@academia @phdlife @phdstudents
@academicsunite @academicchatter
@ScienceAdm

#Journals | Security and Safety
#NewArticle #OpenAccess #Editorial

“Preface: Security and safety in artificial intelligence ”
Guest editors from the #Jiaotong_Uni , #UniOslo , #NTUsg and #Tsinghua_Uni

Read More➡️ https://bit.ly/4k6InvS
#SecurityandSafety
#ScienceMastodon
#ScientificPublishing
@ScienceScholar
@academia @phdlife @phdstudents
@academicsunite @academicchatter
@ScienceAdm

Journals | JEOS-Rapid Publications
#NewArticle #OpenAccess

"Research on the photoelectrical properties of TiO2-doped V2O5/FTO nanocomposite thin films under thermal and electrical excitation"
✍️ Yi Li et al. University of Shanghai for Science and Technology (#USST)
➡️ https://bit.ly/4gx3pAt

#JEOS_RP #EuropeanOptics #Physics #AppliedPhysics #OpticalEngineering #ScienceMastodon #ScientificPublishing @ScienceScholar
@academia
@academicsunite @academicchatter

By the way the tools available nowadays for discovering scientific literature are remarkable. Two examples:

#SemanticScholar lists actually related and interesting papers:
https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Cognitive-hyperplasticity-drives-insomnia-Huang-Piao/9b5da8eeed335a34a6f8e5729033b22f07c7cf41#related-papers

And so does #Sciety @sciety but offering a different set of related papers:
https://sciety.org/articles/activity/10.1101/2024.07.16.603670

#ScientificPublishing

Journals | JEOS-Rapid Publications
#NewArticle #OpenAccess

"On the exact Maxwell evolution equation of resonator dynamics"
✍️ Philippe Lalanne et al. #LP2N_lab #CNRS @cnrs
➡️ https://bit.ly/4jux93T

#JEOS_RP #europeanoptics #ScienceMastodon
#ScientificPublishing
@ScienceScholar
@academia @phdlife @phdstudents
@academicsunite @academicchatter
@ScienceAdm

Journals | JEOS-Rapid Publications
#NewArticle #OpenAccess

"Fast simulation of the influence of a refractive free-form microstructure on a wave field based on scalar diffraction theory"
✍️ Fabian Thiemicke et al. @unibremen #UniversitätBremen
➡️ https://bit.ly/4jzxgLk

#JEOS_RP #europeanoptics #ScienceMastodon
#ScientificPublishing
@ScienceScholar
@academia @phdlife @phdstudents
@academicsunite @academicchatter
@ScienceAdm

Journals | JEOS-Rapid Publications
#NewArticle #OpenAccess

"Ultra-broad Schmidt modes for biphoton states generated by SPDC in the chirped QPM crystals"
✍️ Zhan Zheng et al. #ZhejiangUniversityofTechnology
➡️ https://bit.ly/42tVOPS

#JEOS_RP #europeanoptics #ScienceMastodon
#ScientificPublishing
@ScienceScholar
@academia @phdlife @phdstudents
@academicsunite @academicchatter
@ScienceAdm

Journals | JEOS-Rapid Publications
#NewArticle #OpenAccess

"A review of research on optical true time delay technology"
✍️ Ting An et al.
➡️ https://bit.ly/3PRuinW

#JEOS_RP #europeanoptics #ScienceMastodon
#ScientificPublishing
@ScienceScholar
@academia @phdlife @phdstudents
@academicsunite @academicchatter
@ScienceAdm

🏴‍☠️ :blobfoxpirate: ☠️

You know the drama maybe with sci-hub, z-lib, libgen, etc...check out the weird-ass seizure notice with a (IMO) absolute failure in messaging...they don't seem to be swimming in pools of stolen money, rather, looks like they just live in a rural area...but ok.

Just in case you didn't know, there's a meta-search site called annas archive annas-archive.org (with shitty-but-working download mirrors)

and z-library.sk is the current official domain.

and sci-hub seems to be back up and running (multiple domains e.g. sci-hub.se)

Just stop putting your research behind paywalls

#science #piracy #scientificpublishing #Academia #academicjournals #journals #openaccess #scihub #libgen #zlibrary #freescience

Journals | Journal of the European Optical Society-Rapid Publications
#NewArticle #OpenAccess

"Design considerations for wavefront sensing with self-referencing interferometers in adaptive optics systems"
✍️ Jonathan F. Holzman et al.
➡️ https://bit.ly/4hcg1yd

#JEOS_RP #europeanoptics #ScienceMastodon
#ScientificPublishing
@ScienceScholar
@academia @phdlife @phdstudents
@academicsunite @academicchatter
@ScienceAdm

#Journals | #ActaAcustica
A new Topical Issue on “Development of #EuropeanAcoustics in the 20th Century” will “identify most relevant European contributors from research institutions and companies, and review their respective achievements”.
https://bit.ly/3ygOTNe
#EAAacoustics
#ScienceMastodon
#ScientificPublishing
@ScienceScholar
@academia @phdlife @phdstudents
@academicsunite @academicchatter

#Journals | ActaAcustica
Contribute to @ActaAcustica ’s upcoming Topical issue “Development of European Acoustics in 20th Century”.

📅 Submission Deadline: January 31, 2025
Find out more: https://t.co/TCK8zejT8c
#CallForPapers #Acoustics #Research #EAAacoustics
#ScienceMastodon
#ScientificPublishing
@ScienceScholar
@academia @phdlife @phdstudents
@academicsunite @academicchatter
@ScienceAdm

GPT-Fabricated Scientific Papers Flood Google Scholar, Scientists Say

https://www.sci.news/othersciences/computerscience/gpt-fabricated-scientific-papers-google-scholar-13580.html

#science #sciencenews #sciencecommunication #sciencecomm #scicomm #scicom #sciencejournalism #google #googlescholar #technology #tech #ai #artificialintelligence #openai #chatgpt #generativeAI #scientificresearch #scientificpublishing #ScientificStudy #misinformation #disinformation

Meet our Managing Editor Dr. Marc Kielmann at Aromaticity 2025 in Mérida, Mexico 🇲🇽, Jan. 27–30, 2025. He is excited to chat with you about #OrganicChemistry, #ScientificPublishing and #OpenAccess.

➡️ https://www.beilstein-journals.org/bjoc/news/M5CP5RLBB3CBT6Z4L4NMJFHTHA?M=y

#Aromaticity2025 #TheoreticalChemistry #ComputationalChemistry #OrganicChemistry #PhysicalChemistry #QuantumChemistry #ChemTwitter #CompChem #TheoChem #aromaticity
#BJOC 💎 🔓

#Journals | ActaAcustica
Contribute to @ActaAcustica ’s upcoming Topical issue “Development of European Acoustics in 20th Century”.

📅 Submission Deadline: January 31, 2025
Find out more: https://t.co/TCK8zejT8c
#CallForPapers #Acoustics #Research #EAAacoustics
#ScienceMastodon
#ScientificPublishing
@ScienceScholar
@academia @phdlife @phdstudents
@academicsunite @academicchatter
@ScienceAdm