Update. From Julien Sobrier: "We need a common understanding of what an open model means [for #AI and #LLMs]. We want to watch out for any #OpenWashing, as we saw it with free vs #OpenSource software."
https://www.artificialintelligence-news.com/news/endor-labs-ai-transparency-vs-open-washing/

Update. "The Trump Administration Is Targeting Science. The Scientific Integrity Act Could Help Protect It."
https://blog.ucsusa.org/kellickson/the-trump-administration-is-targeting-science-the-scientific-integrity-act-could-help-protect-it/

"The Scientific Integrity Act (#SI Act) is a bipartisan bill re-introduced on February 6th in the US House of Representatives… [It] would include language prohibiting scientific or research misconduct; preventing intimidation or attempted coercion to alter or censor scientific or technical findings; and allowing public dissemination of scientific and technical findings…It would ensure that scientific conclusions are not made based on political considerations but based on the best available science."

#Censorship #DefendResearch #Legislation #Takedowns #Trump #USPol #USPolitics

I'm seeking expressions of interest from nonprofit organizations to take over the Open Access Tracking Project (#OATP, @oatp) and the open-source software on which it runs.

Details in this Google doc:
https://bit.ly/TransferOATP

Contact me <peter.suber@gmail.com> if you have any questions or any level of interest.

#Crowdsourced #OpenAccess #OpenSource #ScholComm #TagTeam

Update. As recently as January 2, 2025, #NASA had five modules for teaching #OpenScience on its web site. The #Trump administration has taken them down.
https://science.nasa.gov/open-science/tops/os101/

Here they are in the @internetarchive Wayback Machine.
https://web.archive.org/web/20250102141453/https://science.nasa.gov/open-science/tops/os101/

#Takedowns #TrumpAntiScience #USPol #USPolitics

New study: "Findings reveal that #OpenAccess articles contribute to 72% to 95% of citations received by institutions in #MENA countries."
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/21582440241288730

#Impact #ScholComm

Earlier this week an opinion piece authored by me and a number of great colleagues was published on the @upstream blog. Our piece introduces criteria for innovation-friendly bibliographic databases https://doi.org/10.54900/d3ck1-skq19.

We express our deep concerns about the treatment of @eLife by the #WebOfScience and #Scopus databases. We see this as an example of databases hindering rather than supporting innovation in scholarly communication and research assessment.

@cwts

New study: "Undeclared [use of] #AI seems to appear in journals with higher citation metrics and higher article processing charges (#APCs), precisely those outlets that should theoretically have the resources and expertise to avoid such oversights."
https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.15218

#Misconduct #ScholComm

Would you pay to have #AI summarize and promote your research? Would you pay to prevent that from happening?
https://futurism.com/springer-nature-ai-media-kit

"#SpringerNature…is approaching the authors of papers in its journals with AI-generated "Media Kits" to summarize and promote their research. In an email to journal authors…Springer told the scientists that its AI tool will "maximize the impact" of their research, saying the $49 package will return "high-quality" outputs for marketing and communication purposes…[But] the tool's "high-quality" outputs can't always be trusted. On an accompanying webpage linked in the email, Springer warns that "even the best AI tools make mistakes" and urges authors to painstakingly review the AI's outputs and issue corrections as needed for accuracy and clarity."

#ScholComm

Watching with interest:

"While the #OpenAPC initiative has created an internationally recognized approach to the disclosure of funds in the area of publication fees [#APCs], there is still no such initiative for #subscription costs…Against this background, the #DFG project #Transform2Open [@Transform2Open] is striving for a national #transparency initiative [in #Germany] that addresses subscription as well as transformation and #OpenAccess contracts."
https://zenodo.org/records/14505423

Neu in 2025: 💎 Diamond Open Access Zeitschriften durch Crowdfunding“, im #BMBF-Verbundprojekt #edu_consort_oa“. Für Herausgebende: Beteiligen Sie sich an der OA-Transformation eines Zeitschriftenpakets aus #Erziehungswissenschaft, #Bildungsforschung und #Fachdidaktik. Einreichungen sind bis zum 28. Februar 2025 möglich.

ℹ️ https://www.fachportal-paedagogik.de/literatur/produkte/fachinformationsdienst/diamond-open-access-zeitschriften-durch-crowdfunding.html

#Fachinformationsdienst #OpenAccess #Zeitschriften

New study: Researchers used #ChatGPT to judge the "politeness" and "sentiment" of #PeerReview reports in high-impact medical journals. They found no significant differences based on author #gender but significant differences based on author nationality. "Papers from the #MiddleEast, #LatinAmerica, or #Africa exhibited lower sentiment and politeness scores compared to those from North America, Europe, or Pacific and Asia."
https://www.jmir.org/2024/1/e57667

Update. New study: "While #X currently dominates #altmetric mentions, the observed growth on #Bluesky suggests a potential shift in the future."
https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.05624

#Altmetrics #Impact #ScholComm

Why is so much of the scholarly literature inaccessible to blind and low-vision scientists (and other readers)?

My latest for Nature:

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-03953-7

The full #UK #OpenAccess policy for #REF 2029, along with a summary of the consultation that informed it, has been published today, with no mandate for longform outputs such as books

https://2029.ref.ac.uk/news/ref-2029-open-access-policy-and-consultation-and-engagement-summary-published/

An interview with #Altmetric discussing their decision to include #Bluesky as an attention source and whether they plan to cease indexing #X https://shorturl.at/lmwi8

“we’ve noticed that...the number of X mentions are slightly going down…we have recently run a survey…75% of our users that responded to this survey are either not using X or see their usage decreasing…However, we still see a number of discussions about research happening on X…So..there would be no reason for us to stop indexing X”

An excellent analysis here from Muthu Madhan on India’s One Nation One Subscription deal

https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2024/12/05/indias-one-nation-one-subscription-deal-enriches-publishers-and-benefits-few/

#AcademicPublishing #wastingMoney
#ONOS

@mizoraman @petersuber

You may also look at the UNESCO toolkit for developing policies for Open Science https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000383710

Yesterday Digital Science's #Altmetric has added #Bluesky as a new attention source for published research outputs. However, #Mastodon is not in the list of sources, and #Twitter / #X is still there...

https://www.digital-science.com/news/altmetric-adds-bluesky-social-media-as-a-research-attention-source/

#OpenScience #altmetrics

Thursday 5 December, at 12 CET, there is going to be a webinar about the Barcelona Declaration on #OpenResearch Information, and Open Alex: https://www.ub.uio.no/english/courses-events/events/open-science-lunch/2024-12-05.html . The webinar is organised by 4 Norwegian uni libraries for everybody interested.

#research #metrics #openinfrastructure #openscience @BarcelonaDORI and @OpenAlex

@brembs In my opinion, no matter what publishing model you strive for, you'll get a reflection of the power structures in academic publishing. So, if Nature and Science were open access, would that change anything? Not really.

Open access is good because it enables universal access to primary sources, but it's not a cure for problems in academic publishing. (1/2)

#openaccess