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Juan Pablo Alperin @juancommander.scholcommlab.ca · 03/08/2026

1/ In 2024, I filed a false claims act lawsuit against Elsevier, Springer, Wiley & Informa alleging they systematically overcharged US federal grants for article processing. The gov declined to intervene and now it's public. Some thoughts on what this is, and what it isn't:

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DeDe Dawson @dededawson.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

It is not open access that is the problem, it is profit-driven publishing models. Cancer Research UK withdraws funding for open access charges www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-o...

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Cancer Research UK withdraws funding for open access charges - Research Professional News

Exclusive: Charitable funder cites “inefficient and costly” system, promising transition for researchers

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Open Library of Humanities @openlibhums.org · 27/03/2026

Infrastructure Landlords: The Rentier Capitalism of Commercial Academic Publishers This piece explores how major academic publishers are becoming “infrastructure landlords”, not just publishing research, but owning the systems around it. 👉 www.openlibhums.org/news/931/ #OpenAccess #ScholComm

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THE LONG READ Infrastructure Landlords: The Rentier Capitalism of Commercial Academic Publishers

THE LONG READ Infrastructure Landlords: The Rentier Capitalism of Commercial Academic Publishers This piece has been written by a friend of the OLH who wishes to remain anonymous. Figure. Pyramid …

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amy buckland @jambina.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

As we used to say back in the day: THIIIIIIIIIIS

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DeDe Dawson @dededawson.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Libraries need to critically engage with language we use when assessing TAs/R&Ps. Out now: doi.org/10.5860/crln... with my fantastic co-authors @leighbutler.bsky.social, Jaclyn McLean, Jason Friedman, Erin Fields, and Monica Ward

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Tangled Terms: How We Talk About Transformative Agreements | Butler | College & Research Libraries News

Tangled Terms: How We Talk About Transformative Agreements

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Open Journals Collective @ojcollective.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

We've officially launched! With our new #DiamondOpenAccess investment campaign to help libraries build a sustainable, community‑led future for scholarly publishing & support journals flipping away from costly subscription models. Read the Press release here drive.google.com/file/d/10Hgf...

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Professor Caroline Edwards @theblochian.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

We've done it again! @openlibhums.org has flipped another flagship journal to #diamond #openaccess! This follows the mass resignation of the Journal of Philosophical Logic's editorial boards from Springer Nature. The JPL editors will launch Philosophical Logic: www.openlibhums.org/news/875/.

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Flagship Springer Nature journal flips to diamond open access at the OLH

We’re excited to announce the launch of a major new journal, following news of another mass editorial resignation (read open letter) at Springer Nature. This week, the Editors-in-Chief and Associate …

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Stefanie Haustein @stefhaustein.scholcommlab.ca · 13/11/2025

Over the past months (and at least 11 versions!), I was lucky to work with 11 amazing colleagues on a call to action to reform academic publishing. Not another declaration, but an appeal to our powerful friends, research funders & institutions, to Stop the Drain of Scientific Publishing. 1/n

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Paolo Crosetto @paolocrosetto.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

What is the most profitable industry in the world, this side of the law? Not oil, not IT, not pharma. It's *scientific publishing*. We call this the Drain of Scientific Publishing. Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820 Background: doi.org/10.1162/qss_... Thread @markhanson.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy 👇

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hyperbolbri @astrobri.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

NIH policy had 5% compliance when it was voluntary, 50-70% compliance when it was mandatory, and got to 90% when funds were held back until compliance was fulfilled. #OASPA2025

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Stefanie Haustein @stefhaustein.scholcommlab.ca · 11/09/2025

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

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DeDe Dawson @dededawson.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Yes: "Policymakers tend to see publishers as mere service providers who can be given money in exchange for open access. The reality is that good publishing is not a transaction but a community effort. Publishing cannot stand outside the communities that produce the research; it is part of research."

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Caroline Ball @heroicendeavour.eurosky.social · 11/09/2025

It's so saddening to see how a movement with such good intentions has been co-opted and commercialised to such an extent that it's effectively now just a means for channelling public money in corporate pockets. For me, if it's not Diamond I don't want to know. #OpenAccess

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Eric Schares @eschares.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Proud to have played even a small role on this project! Great summary post and an excellent job by the entire IOI team. After two years of intensive research, IOI's project “Investigating "reasonable costs" to achieve public access to federally funded research and scientific data” has concluded.

The Publishing Profiler: Visualizing Research Output Footprints
The Publishing Profiler represents a tool to help institutions understand their federal research publication landscape. Built by consultant Eric Schares and expanding on his earlier work at Iowa State University, this interactive dashboard combines data from Dimensions and OpenAlex to provide comprehensive insights into institutional publishing patterns.

Using an eight-year analysis period (2016-2023) to capture trends and context, the Publishing Profiler reveals:

Total publication output with breakdowns by corresponding authorship status
Federal funding acknowledgments extracted from acknowledgment text and metadata
Nelson Memo-implicated publications—the crucial intersection of corresponding authorship and federal funding that would fall under new policies
Publisher and journal patterns showing where researchers are publishing and how this is changing over time
Open access status across different forms of OA
Funding agency breakdowns allowing deeper dives into specific federal funders
For example, Iowa State University's 2023 data showed 2,776 total published articles, with 48% having ISU corresponding authors and 55% of those acknowledging federal funding, resulting in 733 articles that would be subject to the Nelson-era open-access policies.

The tool's practical applications are immediate: libraries can gauge future demand for institutional repositories based on the percentage of non-OA publications that will need compliance support, while research offices can help investigators budget for article processing charges or plan to publish in fully open access journals.

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Juan Pablo Alperin @juancommander.scholcommlab.ca · 03/09/2025

NEW POST: NIH explores capping APCs: Let’s look at the evidence! We used data of NIH funded from 2025, and found that APCs for a few as 7% journals (or 6% of papers) would be fully covered by a $2K cap, 25% of journals (or 21% of papers) by a $3K cap. Read more! www.scholcommlab.ca/2025/09/03/n...

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NIH explores capping APCs: Let’s look at the evidence

by Stefanie Haustein, Eric Schares, Juan Pablo Alperin, Flavia Camargo, Lisa Matthias, Lucía Céspedes, Constance Poitras & Dorothea Strecker On April 30 2025, the US National Institutes of Heal…

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petersuber @petersuber.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 02/07/2025

Springer Nature makes clear that federally-funded authors who want to publish in SN journals will have to pay #APCs. www.springernature.com/gp/open-scie… Submitting articles to one of SN's non-OA or subscription-based journals, to avoid the APC, is not an […]

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Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · 22/06/2025

This article offers a pretty sensible argument for bringing more of publishing back under university control. There's no reason to frame it in such a clickbaity way; it has nothing to do with anything Kennedy is pushing for. www.chronicle.com/article/what...

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Opinion | What RFK Jr. Got Right About Academic Publishing

The system no longer works for anyone except corporate publishers.

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Seemay Chou @seemaychou.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

We're excited to take this step, and to talk to other folks who are interested in experimenting. If you have something you're excited to try, reply here -- and we might even fund it. asterainstitute.substack.com/p/scientific...

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Scientific Publishing: Enough is Enough

Why we're no longer funding journal publications

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Rachel Borchardt @butternutsquash.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

So excited to see this work finally published!

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DeDe Dawson @dededawson.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

The University Library #USask is now hosting diamond open access journals! No fees for readers or authors. Equitable & sustainable. We recently welcomed the Engaged Scholar Journal to our new service & helped them celebrate 10 years of publishing. #USaskResearch library.usask.ca/news/2025/10...

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10 Years of the Engaged Scholar Journal - University Library

Celebrating the 10th Anniversary of the Engaged Scholar Journal and the Launch of USask Library’s Diamond Open Access Journal Hosting Service

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Ludo Waltman @ludowaltman.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

I disagree. Peer review offers some degree of quality assurance, but still many articles in reputable journals have major flaws. Good science can be found in reputable journals, but also on preprint servers. Conversely, bad science can be found on preprint servers, but also in reputable journals.

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Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · 04/04/2025

"As national and international conversations on scholarly publishing evolve, it is vital to recognize libraries not just as contributors, but as key players driving a more equitable and sustainable publishing system." By @ahemnason.bsky.social and colleagues. ojs.lib.uwo.ca/index.php/cj...

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Low-Key Load-Bearing: Defining the National Role of Canada’s Library Publishing Programs | The Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science

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SPARC @sparcopen.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Save the dates: April 30, May 14 & June 4 to learn more about #OpenAccess! SPARC is partnering w/ the Scholarly Communications Notebook team to host a 2nd round of our OA101 series. Webinars are free & open to anyone working in libraries. Register for one or all: sparcopen.org/news/2025/oa...

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OA 101 Round 2: Visibility & Impact, Problematizing “Predatory” Publishing, and Authors Rights - SPARC

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Professor Caroline Edwards @theblochian.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Excited to be launching Open Journals Collective today! We're working with librarians, academics & university-based publishers to replace commercial TAs with a community-led alternative. This is designed to save libraries money & tackle the rampant inequalities of global academic publishing. #UKSG25

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Mark Carney @mark-carney.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Our response is to fight, to protect, and to build.

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DeDe Dawson @dededawson.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Happy Green OA Day! #USask researchers: the library can help make your research open access for FREE and LEGALLY through HARVEST, our repository. We also have a free Upload Service: let library staff do the work of copyright checking & upload for you. See more: library.usask.ca/news/2025/ce...

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Celebrate Green OA Day with HARVEST - University Library

Green open access (OA) is a free and legal way to share your research

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Eric Schares @eschares.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Our #APC analysis preprint was cited in a Wall Street Journal story today, along with Elsevier's response. www.wsj.com/business/med... #AcademicPublishing #MetaSci #ScholCommLab @juancommander.scholcommlab.ca @stefhaustein.scholcommlab.ca

A study recently estimated that the top five publishers earned nearly $9 billion in article-processing charges between 2019 and 2023. Elsevier alone collected an estimated $583 million in such charges in 2023, the authors calculated.

The spokesman for Elsevier disputed the estimates but didn’t provide alternative figures for journal revenue.

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Stefanie Haustein @stefhaustein.scholcommlab.ca · 11/03/2025

Sometimes the best that comes out of 4-year #SSHRC project are 2 amazing educational videos. Learned so much & trained students from information science, education, film, theatre... and we had tons of fun! Watch for yourself WHY YOU SHOULD STOP USING THE #H-INDEX: www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSf7...

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What is the h-index and what are its limitations? Or: Stop using the h-index [Animation]

YouTube video by ScholCommLab

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Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

In 1890, the Tariff Act came into place in the United States. It placed tariffs on imports of up to 50%. While touted as a way to build American industry, there was also the hope it would force an annexation of Canada. It backfired. Let's learn more. 🧵1/10

The image is a black-and-white political cartoon depicting a man in a suit standing behind a counter labeled "Republican Platform." He is holding a bottle labeled "Untaxed Whiskey, 20¢ Gal." in one hand and a piece of cloth labeled "War-Taxed Common Cloth, Tariff 84%" in the other. Above the counter, a sign reads, "If you don’t see what you want, ask for it." The cartoon, signed by W.A. Rogers, appears to satirize the Republican Party's economic policies, highlighting the disparity in taxation between luxury items like whiskey and essential goods like cloth.

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Evidence for Democracy @e4dca.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

When its integrity is threatened anywhere, it affects us all. That’s why today, we’re launching an Open Letter from Canadians to stand with the #StandUpForScience movement. Sign now & show your support for our American colleagues: forms.gle/Jbunjx88x7VM... #MarchForScience

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Siobhan @siobhanh.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Like everyone else - I have some thoughts on the Clarivate announcement: tinyurl.com/35jxfnwc Not just a change in the model, but a representation of a larger shift in the landscape, and the dangers of monopolies and market consolidation - threatening the core mission of libraries globally.

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OPINION: A librarian's summary of, and response to, the Clarivate announcement - UKSG

Siobhan Haimé takes a look at detail the Clarivate announcement and its practical (and possibly unintentional transformational) effects.

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Budapest Open Access Initiative @boaiopen.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Today I'm pleased to announce that the BOAI, which first defined #OpenAccess, is transitioning into an org to support the development of equitable OA. For more, please see our blog post, which is being translated into Spanish and Portuguese. www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/news/boai-tr...

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BOAI Transitioning to Organization to Support the Development of Equitable Open Access – Budapest Open Access Initiative

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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 10/02/2025

Nature valentines. Thanks to my Patrons for keeping me drawing www.patreon.com/birdandmoon

A group of six nature valentines. A picture of a bog with pitcher plants, with text saying "Our love is like a bog. Built up over time, resistant to decay, deeply interesting to just a small number of people." A yellow slime mold stretching out and exploring. "our love is like a slime mold. Collaborative, complex, at times unnerving to behold." A piece of limestone with a small trilobite in the corner. "Our love is like limestone. Layered, useful for many purposes, shaped by the friends we met along the way." A ring-billed gull with a french fry on a beach. "Our love is like a ring-billed gull. Abundant, found in North America, sometimes sustained by french fries." An Atlantic horseshoe crab walking on the sand. "Our love is like a horseshoe crab. Tough, timeless, unrelated to true crabs." A drawing of the phosphorus cycle, with arrows connecting various parts of a scene, including algae and fish and a farm and a river and a forest. "Our love is like the phosphorus cycle. Important, really hard to draw."

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Danny Kingsley @dannykay68.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

COMPLETE CRAP - publishers have long argued they need authors to sign over copyright "so they can protect authors' rights". But *when* do they do that? Publishers are not enforcing attribution rights (under CC BY) for the papers they have sold to LLMs at huge profit. Maybe they should start there?

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Research Professional News @resprofnews.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

End of big deals is a chance to build a better publishing system. Don’t waste a crisis—invest in more open and equitable business models, says David Prosser. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-v...

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End of big deals is a chance to build a better publishing system - Research Professional News

Don’t waste a crisis—invest in more open and equitable business models, says David Prosser

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Ashley Farley @openaccessmaven.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

I'm looking forward to the 1st OpenCon Librarian Community call of 2025! If you are a librarian join us to chat about using the Library Partnership Rating (LPR) to see how well a publisher aligns with library values around openness. www.opencon.community/january_2025...

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January 2025 Librarian Community Call

OpenCon works to make research & education more open and equitable.

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Caroline Ball @heroicendeavour.eurosky.social · 19/12/2024

Governments bending over backwards to find ways to allow AI companies to use copyrighted material for free in order to make corporate profits - but libraries have to pay millions to access the same material for educational purposes? Something’s broken here, for sure. 📚

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Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · 17/12/2024

'Grey area journals make use of the APC operating model and aim to increase the number of publications with the minimum time spend for editorial work and quality assessment.' These practices *define* commercial publishing. It makes no sense to single out MDPI and Frontiers as worse than the rest.

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EveryLibrary @everylibrary.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

There seem to be a number of Americans who don’t know what to do if they find a book they don’t like at the library. For them, we wrote this handy step-by-step guide. action.everylibrary.org/what_do_i_do...

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What do I do if I don't like a book at the library?

A handy step-by-step guide.

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Kate O’Neill @katefoneill.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

These are exciting times for us here at Shef - a move towards a world free from unsustainable, inequitable Big Deals may just be possible after all

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Simon is on strike ✊🏻 @simonxix.com · 09/12/2024

Libraries have a key opportunity in no-fee OA publishing to take an active role in supporting open knowledge production rather than their passive traditional role. They should seize it and steer open knowledge in line with their values.

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Dan Goodman @neural-reckoning.org · 29/11/2024

I propose we switch from saying preprint / published paper to saying publish / reprint. "I published my paper on arxiv and I'm hoping to get it reprinted in Nature"

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Research on Research Institute (RoRI) @rorinstitute.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

The peer review system is broken - a different approach is needed 💡 Kathryn Zeiler, @stephenpinfield.bsky.social and Ludo Waltman write about how increased transparency in the review process could speed scientific progress: theconversation.com/the-peer-rev...

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