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petersuber

What will most transform #ScholComm in the next 10 years? A new survey of 90 #ECRs from 7 countries gives first place to #AI, followed closely by #OpenAccess and #OpenScience, followed by changes to #PeerReview.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/fu

While respondents thought AI would trigger more change than OA and OS, they were split on whether those changes would be good or bad. They were more united on the benefits of OA and OS.

I like this summary of the views of the Spanish respondents: "They believe that the much heralded new open and collaborative system is only possible if the evaluation of researchers changes and considers more than citations and includes altmetrics, publication in open platforms, repositories and so on."

#Assessment#OpenInfrastructure
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petersuber

I like this idea for a #LettersToTheEditor #preprint server.
link.springer.com/article/10.1

"Such a preprint server would offer three major benefits…: format-free ease of swift communication, increased author visibility and accountability, and avoiding the homelessness of unpublished [letters]."

PS: I've sent letters to journals that had policies not to publish them, but without saying so anywhere. Once I sent a letter to a new journal that had never received or published one and needed time to think about it. Right now #SocialMedia takes up this slack and does a pretty good job. But posting letters as preprints would give authors more space, prevent even published letters from languishing behind #paywalls, and offer better opportunities for #PIDs, #metadata, and #discoverability.

SpringerLinkReinventing the Letter to the Editor in Science: A Dedicated Preprint Server - Publishing Research QuarterlyAlthough letters to the editor (LTEs, or Correspondence) have a wide range of communicative functions within science, they also present several drawbacks, three of which we highlight: editorial ambiguity, technological limitations and skewed perceptions about their format. An assessment of Scopus (September 16, 2023) indicated that letters account for 1.7% to 3.2% per year, relative to articles and reviews, suggesting that the LTE field is undeveloped. We argue that the creation of a new preprint server, which we name CoArXiv or LettersArXiv, would allow LTEs—with timely and valuable knowledge and insight—to be posted in much the same way as other preprints, and would be one way to overcome needed reform of LTE-publishing culture, ultimately expanding the range of science communication channels for multidisciplinary research. We consider that such a preprint server would offer three major benefits for scientific research: format-free ease of swift communication, increased author visibility and accountability, and avoiding the homelessness of unpublished LTEs.
#ScholComm
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DOAJ

DOAJ and EZB: Working together for more visibility of information on publishing.

A new collaboration will see DOAJ and EZB contribute to greater transparency in scholarly publishing, empowering authors with the information they need to make informed publishing decisions

#DOAJ #metadata #APCs #transparency #ScholComm #OpenAccess

All details at blog.doaj.org/2025/04/10/doaj-

blog.doaj.orgDOAJ and EZB: Working together for more visibility of information on publishing – DOAJ Blog
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petersuber

Today the editorial board of _Mathematical Logic Quarterly_ (pub'd by #Wiley) resigned and launched a new #DiamondOA journal on the same topics.
open-access.network/services/n

See the open letter announcing their resignations and plans for the new journal.
zml.international/files/zml-op

The new journal has a German title but will publish in English, _Zeitschrift für Mathematische Logik und Grundlagen der Mathematik_.
zml.international/

I track these journal "declarations of independence" in the #OpenAccessDirectory (#OAD), and just added an entry for this one, at the bottom in chronological order.
oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/Journa

I also track them — and discussions of them — in the Open Access Tracking Project (#OATP, @oatp).
tagteam.harvard.edu/hubs/oatp/

open-access.networkRücktritt des MLQ-Editorial-TeamsReaktion auf Differenzen mit Wiley: Gründung eines neuen Open Access Journals 
#Logic#Mathematics#OpenAccess
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petersuber

#Google #AI researchers were formerly like university researchers in this respect: They published their research when it was ready and without regard to corporate interests. For example, see the landmark 2017 paper introducing the transformer technology now in use by all major #LLM tools, including those from Google rivals.
arxiv.org/abs/1706.03762

More here.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attentio

But that's changing. Google's AI researchers may now only publish their findings after an embargo and corporate approval.
arstechnica.com/ai/2025/04/dee

“'I cannot imagine us putting out the transformer papers for general use now,' said one current researcher…The new review processes [has] contributed to some departures. 'If you can’t publish, it’s a career killer if you’re a researcher,' said a former researcher."

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arXiv.orgAttention Is All You NeedThe dominant sequence transduction models are based on complex recurrent or convolutional neural networks in an encoder-decoder configuration. The best performing models also connect the encoder and decoder through an attention mechanism. We propose a new simple network architecture, the Transformer, based solely on attention mechanisms, dispensing with recurrence and convolutions entirely. Experiments on two machine translation tasks show these models to be superior in quality while being more parallelizable and requiring significantly less time to train. Our model achieves 28.4 BLEU on the WMT 2014 English-to-German translation task, improving over the existing best results, including ensembles by over 2 BLEU. On the WMT 2014 English-to-French translation task, our model establishes a new single-model state-of-the-art BLEU score of 41.8 after training for 3.5 days on eight GPUs, a small fraction of the training costs of the best models from the literature. We show that the Transformer generalizes well to other tasks by applying it successfully to English constituency parsing both with large and limited training data.
#ScholComm
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Per Pippin Aspaas

!!! From "Big Deals" to #OpenScience !!!

The Université de Lorraine cancelled Springer (2017) & Wiley (2023) – and reinvests the savings in Open Science.

€500,000 is spent annually on infrastructures, support services and scholar-led Diamond OA – guided by a broad, representative committee.

🎧 Hear more in this #podcast with @fresseng and mastodon.social/@jflutz

#scholarled #DiamondOA #UniLorraine #AcademicPublishing #OpenAccess #scholcomm

doi.org/10.7557/19.8074

Photograph of Nicolas Fressengeas and Jean-Francois Lutz
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DOAJ

Registration is now open for the DIAMAS project conference: The Future of Diamond OA Publishing in Europe and beyond, which will be held in Brussels on June 3rd #OpenAccess #DiamondOA #DIAMAS #ScholComm 💎
diamasproject.eu/the-diamas-pr

workshop
diamasproject.eu · The DIAMAS Project Final Conference – Registration is Open - DIAMASDate: Tuesday, 3 June 2025 Location: Royal Library of Belgium, Mont des Arts 28, 1000 Brussels, Belgium. Registration: Register via Eventbrite The DIAMAS project has made a major contribution towards establishing a high-quality, aligned,community-led, and sustainable scholarly communication ecosystem that aims to make open access the standard practice for publications across Europe. As the project […]
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DOAJ

Nos complace anunciar que DOAJ se convertirá en una nueva entidad jurídica, la Fundación DOAJ, una fundación danesa sin ánimo de lucro.

Este cambio garantizará la sostenibilidad de DOAJ al proporcionar una gobernanza comunitaria más sólida y simplificar nuestra organización, lo que nos permitirá centrarnos en nuestra misión principal.

#DOAJ #DOAJFoundation #ScholComm #OpenAccess #AcademicChatter

blog.doaj.org/es/2025/03/25/do

Título: DOAJ anuncia su transición a la Fundación DOAJ La imagen incluye el logotipo DOAJ y la imagen del panel lateral incluye formas coloreadas
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George Macgregor

@cOAlitionS_OA Acquiescing would be a grave error for the global #scholcomm initiative. It would have the potential to unleash an existential crisis upon the #OpenAccess movement. By setting the precedent, the oligpoly would seize upon the #ADC concept -- every publisher will start introducing them, and #GreenOA — the free, low barrier way of sharing research — will be extinguished. The corporate behaviour of the #oligopoly is quite predictable.

I live in hope... #OpenResearch #OpenScience

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Encyclia

Thanks for your feedback on the kinds of ORCID records you'd like to follow! It may influence how Encyclia will try to help you find them.

For the next question, let us flip it around: how do you feel about your own ORCID record being potentially available to follow on the fediverse in the future?

We put some work into the question of what privacy protections may be needed and whether an opt-out model is justified: encyclia.pub/optin-optout-anal

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Encyclia – Bridging ORCID into the Fediverse
Encyclia.pubOpt-in vs. opt-out impact analysis – Encyclia.pubAn in-depth examination of the question whether Encyclia's ORCID bridge should be opt-in or opt-out
#poll#scicomm#scholcomm
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petersuber

New study: "In the first three years after accusations became public, scholars accused of sexual misconduct incur a larger citation penalty than scholars accused of scientific misconduct. However, when asked to predict their citing behavior, scholars indicated the reverse pattern, suggesting they might mis-predict their behavior or be reluctant to disclose their preferences."
doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0

doi.orgCitation penalties following sexual versus scientific misconduct allegationsBackground and aim Citations in academia have long been regarded as a fundamental means of acknowledging the contribution of past work and promoting scientific advancement. The aim of this paper was to investigate the impact that misconduct allegations made against scholars have on the citations of their work, comparing allegations of sexual misconduct (unrelated to the research merit) and allegations of scientific misconduct (directly related to the research merit). Methods We collected citation data from the Web of Science (WoS) in 2021, encompassing 31,941 publications from 172 accused and control scholars across 18 disciplines. We also conducted two studies: one on non-academics (N = 231) and one on academics (N = 240). Results The WoS data shows that scholars accused of sexual misconduct incur a significant citation decrease in the three years after the accusations become public, while we do not detect a significant citation decrease for scholars accused of scientific misconduct. The study involving non-academics suggests that individuals are more averse to sexual than to scientific misconduct. Finally, contrary to the WoS data findings, a sample of academics indicates they are more likely to cite scholars accused of sexual misconduct than those accused of scientific misconduct. Conclusions In the first three years after accusations became public, scholars accused of sexual misconduct incur a larger citation penalty than scholars accused of scientific misconduct. However, when asked to predict their citing behavior, scholars indicated the reverse pattern, suggesting they might mis-predict their behavior or be reluctant to disclose their preferences.
#CitationImpact#ScholComm
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petersuber

This is a good piece on #Flipboard joining the #Fediverse.
nytimes.com/2025/03/06/technol

It touches on #Ghost, #Medium, and #WordPress too, but not traditional #publishers. It makes me wonder. Will traditional publishers ever join the Fediverse? What will it take to persuade to them try, even as an experiment? Who will go first? How can we help?

Mike McCue, the chief executive of Flipboard, sees its new Surf browser as a tool to help internet users communicate without relying on a single centralized service.
The New York Times · Facing the Looming Threat of A.I., Publishers Turn to Decentralized PlatformsBy John Markoff
#ActivityPub#Decentralization#ScholComm
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