Of course, the first Mertonian norm is communism, so ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯ #OASPA2025 I was reading an interesting paper adjacent to Merton recently, and can't remember it now, of course, but I *am* delighted by the abstract for this paper and DECAY as an acronym: www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

Prof. Demmy. Verbeke explaining that KU Leuven Library has made a stand & spends zero budget on APCs or TAs. Instead, the library invests in nonprofit #openaccess publishing & infrastructure #OASPA2025

The Eurotour continues. After giving talk at ETH in Zurich, presenting at #OSFair2025 at CERN in Geneva, just arrived in Belgium for #OASPA2025. See some of you there!

UBC has purchased access to Sage's backfiles and canceled its subscriptions, looking to interlibrary loan Sage journal article requests going forward. They chose Sage because the UBC community publishes in and reads Sage titles the least of the five big pubs. about.library.ubc.ca/2025/09/17/a...

🔊 Call for translators #NISOPlus25 @nisoinfo.bsky.social The Publication Facts Label #PFLabel is ready for production release (OJS v3.3-3.5) in 9 languages but is ~ 400 words short en français. Can you help? Learn more about the PFL and the call: pkp.sfu.ca/2025/09/03/p... #OpenJournalSystems

Glad I had deleted my account ages ago.. this is just 🤯

"The university will stop sharing the data required to be included in the ranking as of 2026. As a result, Sorbonne University will no longer feature in future rankings produced by THE, which include the World University Rankings, the Rankings by Subject or the Impact Rankings." Excellent!

Whoa! Elsevier fired @richardtol.bsky.social, longstanding Editor-in-Chief of the journal Energy Economics. Richard's side of the story should be ringing alarm bells. #EconSky Fraud and cover-up richardtol.substack.com/p/fraud-and-...

FOMO!

Although the number of journals using #OpenJournalSystems #OJS for #ScholarlyPublishing has skyrocketed since this article's publication, it's still well worth the read if you're interested in how OJS has shaped inclusive, multilingual global publishing: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/... #OSFair2025

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..

Today we responded to the NIH Request for Information on publication costs, peer review, and publishing best practices. Transformative change won’t come from simply shifting who pays fees—it will come from grassroots action and top-down reform of what we value & reward. zenodo.org/records/1710...

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

New From the Team at #ScholCommLab: NIH Explores Capping #APCs: Let’s Look at the Evidence www.scholcommlab.ca/2025/09/03/n... #publishing #scholcomm #libraries

Great stuff from @juancommander.scholcommlab.ca #ScholCommLab on the #NIH caps proposal and its impact: www.scholcommlab.ca/2025/09/03/n... #AcademicSky #SciSky #PoliSky #ScienceSky #science #research #Scholcom

Exemplary work by NWO in adopting @crossref.bsky.social Grant IDs! We now need broader adoption of Grant IDs by funders, publishers and individual researchers. @barcelonadori.bsky.social

Juan Pablo Alperin Reflects on His Academic Career (via #ScholCommLab) www.scholcommlab.ca/2025/09/08/j... #scholcomm #libraries #publishing

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 ☕️🍰

If you're writing responses to the The National Institutes of Health RFI on capping APCs and are looking for sources of evidence to include, here's a great resource from Stefanie Haustein , Eric Schares , Juan Pablo Alperin, Flavia Camargo , Constance Poitras & Dorothea Strecker […]

We’re kicking off a 9-week journey to strengthen Diamond Open Access. Over the coming weeks, we’ll unpack the DIAMAS policy brief, seven themes with clear, actionable steps to make scholarly communication more sustainable, inclusive, and high-quality. #DIAMASProject #DiamondOA #ScholarlyPublishing

Ever had to sum up your career? I just did mine when applying for Full Professor—11 years in the making. It was a rare pause to reflect—what I’ve done, why I do it. Shared as a summary: www.scholcommlab.ca/2025/09/08/j... , or read the full thing! www.scholcommlab.ca/wp-content/u...

Weekend reads: ‘Europe’s largest paper mill?’; the ‘Paper Mill Iceberg’ of cancer research; why is Trump gutting research integrity agencies?

IOI's “Reasonable Costs” Project: Insights and Wrap-Up https://investinopen.org/blog/reasonable-costs-wrap-up/

Highly relevant, not only for journalist!

Here’s my hot take: 🔥 Why not cap astronomical profit margins and reinvest those dollars into open, community run and community led infrastructure to support diamond OA journals 💎 Problem fixed. 👩🏻‍🔧

We need better governance for research and publications. These, collectively, are communities' concerns. Outsourcing it to markets and operational concerns of businesses will fail communities.

The NIH recently announced it’s considering to limit how much of their grant money can be spent on APCs. We looked at evidence of how the three proposed APC caps might play out.

I was so impressed by @investinopen.bsky.social’s webinar to conclude the project today. Such amazing resources that I can’t wait to dig in to.. particularly THE spreadsheet that Cameron did such an amazing job introducing 😜 I already knew what amazing work Eric did, but I didn’t know about PP yet!

Oops, I got a bit carried away there and forgot to include the link to our analysis and dataset 🙈 doi.org/10.59350/sch...

The NIH recently announced it’s considering to limit how much of their grant money can be spent on APCs. We looked at evidence of how the three proposed APC caps might play out.

Talking this morning about experimentation in open access through experimental publishing and community-led initiatives for libraries like @openbookcollective.bsky.social. #OpenFest25

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...

Here it is: www.scholcommlab.ca/2025/09/03/n... Haustein, S., Schares, E., Alperin, J.P., Camargo, F., Matthias, L., Céspedes, L., Poitras, C., & Strecker, D. (2025). APCs of 2,228 journals where NIH-funded authors published in 2025 (Version v1) [dataset]. Harvard Dataverse. doi.org/10.7910/DVN/...

Expanded this study to 2,200+ journals=87% of NIH funded papers in 2025 so far. Blog post with @eschares.bsky.social @juancommander.scholcommlab.ca @lucyces.bsky.social and other #ScholCommLab members coming later today.

📣Vacancy – Platform Manager We are seeking an experienced digital platform manager to join our team who will ensure that #DOAJ continues to grow and meet the demands of our user community #DOAJVacancy #OpenAccess #DOAJTeam All details: blog.doaj.org/2025/09/01/v...

Wow, this journal hosted on Digital Commons shows you location of recent readers downloading papers: digitalcommons.unl.edu/taxrpt/reade...

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. ✏️

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...

A nice and refreshing read contextualizing read & publish agreements with social and ecological theory!

Did you know we’re in the process of creating and establishing a reporting guideline for bibliometric analysis? Items in the list are based on evidence from the literature and expert opinion and now we’re looking for pilot participants to test the guideline’s real-world usefulness in making… (1/2)

At @asapbio.bsky.social we are seeking new members for our Board of Directors. Are you passionate about innovating scientific publishing? Do you feel science needs reward mechanisms that incentivize innovative new approaches to publishing? Then consider applying! asapbio.org/asapbio-seek...

Agree with the prognosis that GS will be axed because it’s not making money but am not so worried. OpenAlex and open community-owned infrastructure FTW! #BarcelonaDeclaration

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...

Did you know we’re in the process of creating and establishing a reporting guideline for bibliometric analysis? Items in the list are based on evidence from the literature and expert opinion and now we’re looking for pilot participants to test the guideline’s real-world usefulness in making… (1/2)

Free access to taxpayer-funded research is progress, but equity means more than access. Our 2025 State of Open Infrastructure report, unpacks the hidden costs of public access and how to better support open, equitable research systems. Read more: investinopen.org/state-of-ope...

Münster is a very cute town, highly recommend this if you’re into replication and open science!

🚀Making Replications Count Hackathon - in-person🚀 3 days. 2 open tools. 1 goal: make replication studies impossible to ignore 📅22–24 Oct 2025 | Münster, Germany ✈️Travel & accommodation covered (UKRI-funded) Find out more below 👇 #OpenScience #Metascience #Replication #Hackathon #CodingForScience

On my reading list!

Kevin Stranack announces his retirement -- As Director of Operations and open access champion, Kevin’s impact has been profound! “This marks the end of a deeply fulfilling chapter... one filled with purpose, collaboration, and a shared commitment…" Read more from Kevin: pkp.sfu.ca/2025/08/07/r...

I have sent ScienceDirect the following questions and asked them to take down their harmful AI feature. Let’s see what they answer.