The Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) has published a statement specifying three significant challenges arising from #ArtificialIntelligence. @coar_repositories cite 1) lack of attribution, 2) #misinformation, and 3) aggresive #bots, as emerging problems to be navigated.

Navigating the Uneasy Interdependence of #AI and #OpenScience https://coar-repositories.org/news-updates/navigating-the-uneasy-interdependence-of-ai-and-open-science/ #repositories #OpenResearch #GenAI #DigitalLibraries #scholcomm

It's one thing to ask authors to disclose how they used #AI. But it's another to have an articulate policy on what degrees and kinds of use cross the line and make a work unacceptable, especially at a #preprint repository that does moderation without peer review. Here's a thoughtful take by @philipncohen, director of #SocArXiv.
https://socopen.org/2026/02/22/where-should-socarxiv-draw-the-ai-line/

#ScholComm

@evan I had a thought this morning while walking Layla, could OJS https://pkp.sfu.ca/software/ojs/ be connected to the fediverse? We have an OJS instance here that we could pilot. #OJS #scholcomm @ppival

Having said that, I'm not exactly sure what would be connected - but it might be worth thinking about.

Two more of our educational videos are now available in English. In the first, we list ten good reasons for open access. The second video, Empowering Democracy Through Open Access, provides an eleventh good reason:
💡Scientifically verified, freely accessible information can help expose fake news and disinformation.

📽️ 10 Reasons for Open Access
https://doi.org/10.5446/72493

📽️ Empowering Democracy Through Open Access
https://doi.org/10.5446/72335

#OpenAccess #OpenScience #Scholcomm #Democracy

Women submit significantly fewer articles to high-impact journals than men. (The percentages differ by field.) When asked why, the most common response was that "they were advised not to." elifesciences.org/articles/90049 #Gender #GenderBias #ScholComm

Gender differences in submissi...

Update. Many studies look at the acceptance rate for articles by women at high-impact journals. This one looks at the submission rate, and finds that women submit significantly fewer articles to these journals than men. (The percentages differ by field.) When asked why, the most common response was that "they were advised not to."
https://elifesciences.org/articles/90049

#Gender #GenderBias #ScholComm

New study: In #APC based #OpenAccess journals of orthopedic surgery, APCs "are not proportional to and do not strongly correlate with" journal impact factors. dx.doi.org/10.5435/JAAO... #JIFs #ScholComm

New study: In #APC-based #OpenAccess journals of orthopedic surgery, APCs "are not proportional to and do not strongly correlate with" journal impact factors.
http://dx.doi.org/10.5435/JAAOSGlobal-D-25-00065

#JIFs #ScholComm

Watching with interest. "COAR Notify and the Launch of a Publish, Review, Curate Alliance." coar-repositories.org/news-updates... PS: I'm a big fan of #COAR, #COARNotify, #PRC, #Preprints, and taking full advantage of #OpenAccess #Repositories. #GreenOA #OpenPeerReview #ScholComm

COAR Notify and the Launch of ...

Watching with interest.

"COAR Notify and the Launch of a Publish, Review, Curate Alliance."
https://coar-repositories.org/news-updates/coar-notify-and-the-launch-of-a-publish-review-curate-alliance/

PS: I'm a big fan of #COAR, #COARNotify, #PRC, #Preprints, and taking full advantage of #OpenAccess #Repositories.

#GreenOA #OpenPeerReview #ScholComm

RE: https://mastodon.social/@SCOSSfunding/116087555270811669

Start with one or two priorities from the Solutions section that are most relevant to your community:

https://scoss.org/from-awareness-to-collective-investment-supporting-and-sustaining-open-infrastructure/

#openaccess #scholcomm #openinfrastructure

Hi #scholcomm brain trust
What's up with this NIH guidance?
https://grants.nih.gov/faqs#/research-performance-progress-report.htm?anchor=53238

There are publications that result directly from NIH awards that are NOT covered by the public access policy?

💕 February 9 – 13 2026 is International Love Data Week #LoveData26, but PKP celebrates #DataSharing all year round.

Considering the theme “Where’s the Data” in this post, the answer at PKP is clear — the data is everywhere and #interoperability is how we help it flow:

https://pkp.sfu.ca/2026/02/12/love-data-week-pkp-interoperability/

@crossref @ORCID_Org @DOAJ @ResearchOrgs @OpenAIRE @datacite

#OpenInfrastructure #FOSS #Metadata #DOIs #PIDs #OpenAccess #ScholComm #ScholarlyPublishing #AcademicChatter

How can regional consortia lower the barrier to #ORCID adoption? 🌍

Join us on 24 Feb for an AMA on ORCID Community Hubs. We're exploring how platforms in South Africa, NZ, & Uganda simplify integration.

Featuring:
✅ TENETNews
✅ ORCID_NZ
✅ Uganda ORCID Hub

Register: https://orcid-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/4417703024065/WN_uIo4fJPVT7mlsTr76QvMbA

#OpenScience #ScholComm #Metadata #PIDs

Update. "Citation counts [for female authors] are on average 5.5% lower than those of comparable male authors…Papers produced by all-female teams receive 56.7% fewer citations than those by all-male teams, while mixed-gender teams achieve a 30.9% citation advantage."
https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-4155/paper10.pdf

#Gender #GenderBias #ScholComm

A review of the proceedings from four major computer-science conferences showed that none from 2021, and all from 2025, had fake citations. arxiv.org/abs/2602.058... #AI #LLMs #Hallucinations #Misconduct #ScholComm

The Case of the Mysterious Cit...

A review of the proceedings from four major computer-science conferences showed that none from 2021, and all from 2025, had fake citations.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.05867v1

The authors prefer the term "mysterious citations" which they define this way: "No paper [with] a similar enough title exists. The cited location either does not exist or holds an unrelated paper with different authors."

#AI #LLMs #Hallucinations #Misconduct #ScholComm

FYI, there's still time to register for this Thursday's #DefendResearch webinar with
PEN America
to learn about what's going on with academic #censorship and what we can do about it #AcademicChatter #ScholComm #Academia #SciSky https://www.defendresearch.org/events/webinar-series

Just read, in a British paper from 1999, a table with a "grand" total of... 91 patients

#ScholComm

Should data be publicly available before article publication? How can we make data sharing easier for researchers? And what could AI and big data mean for existing open datasets?

For #LoveData26 we’ll discuss all that and more with an expert panel from across scholarly communications.

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#opendata #datasharing #researchintegrity #openscience #openaccess #scholcomm #scholarlyCommunication #scholcomms