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Stefanie Haustein @stefhaustein.scholcommlab.ca · 16/12/2025

Intense discussion with The Drain authors today about where to submit Part II.. And somehow @lariviev.bsky.social launched the idea of hockey jerseys?! Thanks for your service, ChatGPT. @danbrockington.bsky.social @hansonmark.bsky.social @stephenpinfield.bsky.social @aileenfyfe.bsky.social

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Stefanie Haustein @stefhaustein.scholcommlab.ca · 16/12/2025

Excited to join @braccolaetitia.social.sciences.re.ap.brid.gy & team at Open Science Monitoring Inititative (OSMI) as steering board member. Looking forward to work w/ Cécile Coulibaly, Moumita Koley, @susannanykyri.bsky.social & @jeroenson.bsky.social open-science-monitoring.org/meet-the-fiv...

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Stefanie Haustein @stefhaustein.scholcommlab.ca · 16/12/2025

Nice way to finish the year with such a quote in @science.org news: "Stefanie Haustein, an information scientist at the University of Ottawa, doesn’t buy publishers’ arguments." Thank you @phiejacobs.bsky.social! doi.org/10.1126/scie...

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Stefanie Haustein @stefhaustein.scholcommlab.ca · 02/12/2025

A great first day of conference in Mendoza, discussing many aspects relevant to the drain of scientific publishing

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Stefanie Haustein @stefhaustein.scholcommlab.ca · 01/12/2025

Excited to discuss dilemmas of #openscience and research assessment reforms in Argentina the next couple of days. Thank you to hostess extraordinaire Fernanda Beigel for bringing us together in Mendoza 🇦🇷

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Stefanie Haustein @stefhaustein.scholcommlab.ca · 20/11/2025

We summarized the Drain paper in an LSE Impact blog post this week. Please share in your networks, ideally with those we are calling to action: research funders and university leadership blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci... #AcademicSky #AcademicPublishing #OpenAccess #ScholComm

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Stefanie Haustein @stefhaustein.scholcommlab.ca · 17/11/2025

At our society journal QSS w/ MIT Press we are transparent about pricing and charge $750 ($1200) for (non)members. As you see in the breakdown, production, submission and hosting =75%=$ 562.50 direct.mit.edu/journals/pag... (2/n)

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Stefanie Haustein @stefhaustein.scholcommlab.ca · 15/11/2025

Talking about our recent work on The Drain of Scientific Publishing at the Royal Society of Canada #CoEE2025 on a panel with @chadgaffield.bsky.social and @abizadeh.bsky.social. 10am in Viger, 8th floor @erudit.org #AcademicSky #RoyalSociety

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Stefanie Haustein @stefhaustein.scholcommlab.ca · 15/11/2025

You might be interested in our preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820

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

Thank you for coming to my TED Talk 🎤 If you’ve read this far and still need convincing, please check out our preprint arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820 and this infographic: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... 10/10

The four-fold drain of scientific publishing: Money, Time, Trust, and Control.

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

Looks at this, we're at over 200! Would love to see where these end up..

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

I'd say that APCs made the extractive business more VISIBLE to authors but publishers have been milking libraries since the 1970s. That's still the case. For some recent data, here is the journal publishing market in $US based on @deltathink.bsky.social data (from their blog posts)

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Stefanie Haustein @stefhaustein.scholcommlab.ca · 24/10/2025

What an amazing little experiment! Highly recommend reading this post #OAWeek #AcademicSky

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Stefanie Haustein @stefhaustein.scholcommlab.ca · 24/10/2025

Love this! Particularly this quote (see screenshot) which aligns quite a bit with a blog post I wrote last week: www.uottawa.ca/research-inn... To be fair, I did only suggest 13 manageable changes easily implementable in the current “prison” but I’m not at all against burning it all down either 🔥🔥🔥

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Stefanie Haustein @stefhaustein.scholcommlab.ca · 24/10/2025

Slides for my #OAWeek talk @uottawabiblio.bsky.social @uottawa.ca today: “Who owns our knowledge? A data feminist perspective on closed research infrastructure” doi.org/10.5281/zeno... #ScholCommLab #openaccess #AcademicSky #datafeminism

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Stefanie Haustein @stefhaustein.scholcommlab.ca · 23/10/2025

Multitasking during #OAWeek: the pleasure of listening to this while putting the finishing touches on my own slides at @uottawabiblio.bsky.social

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Stefanie Haustein @stefhaustein.scholcommlab.ca · 22/10/2025

Quelle meilleure occasion que la #SemaineDuLibreAccès pour partager 13 actions concrètes vers une édition scientifique plus équitable et pérenne ? Des prépublications aux revues diamant, jusqu’au refus d’évaluer pour des éditeurs exploitants : chaque petit geste compte quand on agit collectivement.

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Stefanie Haustein @stefhaustein.scholcommlab.ca · 22/10/2025

What better time than #OAWeek to share 13 actions researchers can take for fairer, more sustainable publishing? From posting preprints to supporting diamond journals to refusing to review for exploitative publishers: each small action matters when we act collectively.

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Stefanie Haustein @stefhaustein.scholcommlab.ca · 15/09/2025

Watching Kelly Cobey (@heartinstitute.bsky.social) and @lariviev.bsky.social during their expert hearing at Meeting No. 2 of the House of Commons Standing Committee on Science and Research (SRSR) right now. Too bad ParlVu is very shaky on my end..

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

If you already read the #ScholCommLab blog last week, here's what's new in @lseimpactblog.bsky.social post: We added layer of analysis for how NIH cap on APCs would affect large publishers. In raw dollars, the what NIH director calls "duopoly" Elsevier and Springer Nature would be affected most.

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

Really sad to say goodbye to Doro Strecker @ibi-hu.bsky.social @humboldtuni.bsky.social who’s been visiting the #ScholCommLab @uottawa.ca for the last 6 weeks w/ help of a @berlinualliance.bsky.social scholarship. At least we had amazing weather today to enjoy a proper “vierte Mahlzeit” outside ☕️🍰

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Stefanie Haustein @stefhaustein.scholcommlab.ca · 04/09/2025

Not sure I get your question, but sounds like the figure you’re looking for is this one:

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Stefanie Haustein @stefhaustein.scholcommlab.ca · 04/09/2025

We also find (again & again) that despite fully financed through subscriptions, APCs of hybrid journals exceed those of gold - clear disconnect between author fees and journal production cost 📖💸 📊Distribution of 2,228 journals across APC brackets: majority above $3K w/ hybrid fees higher than gold

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Stefanie Haustein @stefhaustein.scholcommlab.ca · 04/09/2025

Our analysis of 2,2228 journals in which NIH-funded authors published in 2025 shows that there’s a huge gap between NIH’s proposed caps and the much higher APCs that publishers charge. 📊Top 20 journals where NIH-funded authors published 01-07/2025: most exceed the $2k and $3k caps, some the $6k.

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Stefanie Haustein @stefhaustein.scholcommlab.ca · 29/08/2025

Success! No tears and three (!!) thumbs up from him 🥳 Plus he looooved the Schultüte 😍

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Stefanie Haustein @stefhaustein.scholcommlab.ca · 28/08/2025

That’s him with the dinosaur backpack (obviously) and his best bud from daycare who started school last year. What a courageous kid, starting school in French, when all he knows is “Ça c’est peut pas” because of Patate à vélo by Emilie Gravel 🥔🚲

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Stefanie Haustein @stefhaustein.scholcommlab.ca · 28/08/2025

Can’t believe my kid is starting school tomorrow! Spent my last few evenings keeping a 200yo German tradition alive: making a “Schultüte”. FYI, it’s not just a random dinosaur, it’s an Albertosaurus, as requested. 🦖🌋 35 years ago my mom made me a giant pink pencil. ✏️

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Stefanie Haustein @stefhaustein.scholcommlab.ca · 27/08/2025

So I think using 35-40 quantums per article would make sense. That gets us to Tier 2 with the ApJ: $3,162 🎉 Who said APCs couldn't be fun?

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Stefanie Haustein @stefhaustein.scholcommlab.ca · 27/08/2025

This paper also has a page with 4 figures and very little text. Each figure is 1 quantum, so with 10 pages that would be 40 quantums and a little bit.

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Stefanie Haustein @stefhaustein.scholcommlab.ca · 27/08/2025

So let's just take a random paper in the journal and count the number of words on a random page with text only: I get 1,208 words for this page. That would be 3.45 quantas or 34.5 quantas for a 10 page article.

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Stefanie Haustein @stefhaustein.scholcommlab.ca · 27/08/2025

I've seen a fare share of APC and page charge pages by now, but this was a new level of complexity: The Astrophysical Journal calculates APCs by per "quanta" charge: journals.aas.org/article-char...

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Stefanie Haustein @stefhaustein.scholcommlab.ca · 12/08/2025

Btw, readers of our newsletter already heard about this last week. If you want to stay up to date on all things #ScholCommLab, please consider subscribing: www.scholcommlab.ca/stay-up-to-d...

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Stefanie Haustein @stefhaustein.scholcommlab.ca · 06/08/2025

Also agree w/ @chrismarcum.bsky.social that publishers might just go the "MDPI model" & publish more papers at lower APCs to make up for lost revenue. If we have learned something from the past decades of academic publishing, it's that publishers will always find a way to make money..

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Stefanie Haustein @stefhaustein.scholcommlab.ca · 06/08/2025

I particularly liked what @hjoseph.bsky.social had to say about lack of diamond options in the NIH's Request for Information (to which you can still submit by 15 September: grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...)

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Stefanie Haustein @stefhaustein.scholcommlab.ca · 06/08/2025

Of the 199 journals, as little as 7% of journals/5% of papers would be fully covered by a $2k cap. 11% of journals/14% of papers wouldn't even make due with a $6k cap. A good place to remind ourselves of the disconnect between what it COSTS to produce a paper and what publishers CHARGE to do so..

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Stefanie Haustein @stefhaustein.scholcommlab.ca · 06/08/2025

Some of the data is now quoted in the news article and we're working on a blog post to share some more detailed analysis. For now, have a look at how the APCs of the 199 most popular journals of NIH authors in 2025 would not be covered by the proposed $2,000 and $3,000 caps.

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Stefanie Haustein @stefhaustein.scholcommlab.ca · 06/08/2025

@eschares.bsky.social and I, together with some last minute help by #ScholCommLab members @lucyces.bsky.social, Constance Poitras and Dorothea Strecker, provided Jeff with some data on APCs for the top journals of authors acknowledging NIH funding this year so far.

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Stefanie Haustein @stefhaustein.scholcommlab.ca · 06/08/2025

Another great news piece by @jeffreybrainard.bsky.social at @science.org, which provides a good update on what's going on at the NIH regarding potential caps to APCs paid by their grants: www.science.org/content/arti...

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Stefanie Haustein @stefhaustein.scholcommlab.ca · 15/07/2025

Michele Avissar-Whiting @madubs.bsky.social giving an (albeit indirect) shoutout to #MakeDataCount @makedatacount.bsky.social at @royalsociety.org future of scientific publishing workshop: Bring the data closer! 📈

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Stefanie Haustein @stefhaustein.scholcommlab.ca · 15/07/2025

I also got starstruck by a 360 yo pile of paper 📖 @royalsociety.org

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Stefanie Haustein @stefhaustein.scholcommlab.ca · 15/07/2025

Major career achievement @royalsociety.org discussing the future of scientific publishing #scholcomm #scholcommlab 🍆🐀 📖

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Stefanie Haustein @stefhaustein.scholcommlab.ca · 19/06/2025

My email, in which I also reflect on the situation as a German citizen, can be found below. I urge my colleagues at @uottawa.ca and other universities to consider taking similar actions. [3/x]

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Stefanie Haustein @stefhaustein.scholcommlab.ca · 03/06/2025

@philippmayr.bsky.social knows how to make me happy: office view "mit Domblick". Great to be back in Cologne. Lived here during my PhD but never got to work in the city, certainly not with a view on the Cologne cathedral. Still at @gesis.org until end of next week if you're in the area :)

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Stefanie Haustein @stefhaustein.scholcommlab.ca · 12/05/2025

Slides for my talk "The financial dimensions of open science implementations in the publication system" at the @humboldtuni.bsky.social workshop "Let's talk about Science Reform" doi.org/10.5281/zeno...