I am wondering what all the “Open Infrastructure” aficionados are doing while #scholcomm repositories around the world are struggling to keep their doors open as omnivorous AI Bots are hammering their sites. Writing another Principles document named after a city where it’s nice to have a meeting, maybe?
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You are invited! Later today, at 9 AM US Eastern time / 8 PM Bangkok time
“The Changing Landscape of Open Access Publishing for HIV and Global Health Researchers”
Register at https://tinyurl.com/CIRA-Apr25
#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.
https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.03762
More here.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attention_Is_All_You_Need
But that's changing. Google's AI researchers may now only publish their findings after an embargo and corporate approval.
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/04/deepmind-is-holding-back-release-of-ai-research-to-give-google-an-edge/
“'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."
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.
!!! 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 https://mastodon.social/@jflutz
#scholarled #DiamondOA #UniLorraine #AcademicPublishing #OpenAccess #scholcomm
We're delighted to see Open Journals Collective soft launch their new website today: www.openjournalscollective.org
There is a blog post with more information https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2025/03/31/academic-libraries-cannot-afford-to-carry-on-with-transformative-agreements/
Impact of Social Sciences - Maximizing the impact of academic research · Academic libraries cannot afford to carry on with transformative agreements - Impact of Social SciencesCaroline Edwards argues transformative agreements are unaffordable and introduces the Open Journals Collective as a model for scaling open access.
“Look to the Champions of Freedom for All” How #Libraries Can Advance #Democracy Through Opening Access - Watkinson, Charles; McCready, Kate
#OpenAccess #ScholComm #AcademicPublishing
deepblue.lib.umich.edu“Look to the Champions of Freedom for All” How Libraries Can Advance Democracy Through Opening Access
DOAJ is moving to become a new legal entity, the DOAJ Foundation, securing sustainability by providing robust community governance and focussing on the core mission
#DOAJ #DOAJFoundation #ScholComm #OpenAccess #AcademicChatter
More details at https://blog.doaj.org/2025/03/25/doaj-announces-its-move-to-the-doaj-foundation/
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Update. Here's another piece that made it through peer review (at Oxford UP) falsely assuming that all #OpenAccess journals charge #APCs.
https://doi.org/10.1093/ejcts/ezaf092
The author concludes that there is *not* too much OA, but only because APC discounts and waivers exist. Imagine how much she could have strengthened her argument by bringing in #DiamondOA and #GreenOA.
#DOAJ has now introduced labels as a new feature in our metadata.
The first label is Subscribe to Open (S2O).
You can now easily identify the S2O logo in our journal search results and on individual journal pages.
#DOAJ #Metadata #S2O #ScholComm #OpenAccess #AcademicChatter
https://blog.doaj.org/2025/03/21/launch-of-the-subscribe-to-open-s2o-label/
Evaluating #Multilingual #Metadata Quality in #Crossref / Dennis Donathan II, Mike Nason, Marco Tullney, Julie Shi, Juan Pablo Alperin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.11853
arXiv.orgEvaluating Multilingual Metadata Quality in CrossrefIntroduction: Scholarly research spans multiple languages, making multilingual metadata crucial for organizing and accessing knowledge across linguistic boundaries. These multilingual metadata already exist and are propagated throughout scholarly publishing infrastructure, but the extent to which they are correctly recorded, or how they affect metadata quality more broadly is little understood.
Methods: Our study quantifies the prevalence of multilingual records across a sample of publisher metadata and offers an understanding of their completeness, quality, and alignment with metadata standards. Utilizing the Crossref API to generate a random sample of 519,665 journal article records, we categorize each record into four distinct language types: English monolingual, non-English monolingual, multilingual, and uncategorized. We then investigate the prevalence of programmatically-detectable errors and the prevalence of multilingual records within the sample to determine whether multilingualism influences the quality of article metadata.
Results: We find that English-only records are still in the vast majority among metadata found in Crossref, but that, while non-English and multilingual records present unique challenges, they are not a source of significant metadata quality issues and, in few instances, are more complete or correct than English monolingual records.
Discussion & Conclusion: Our findings contribute to discussions surrounding multilingualism in scholarly communication, serving as a resource for researchers, publishers, and information professionals seeking to enhance the global dissemination of knowledge and foster inclusivity in the academic landscape.
Wow -- the DOGE has canceled US National Agricultural Library subscriptions to 17 publishers -- but not Elsevier, not Springer Nature, not Wiley
Lutz Bornmann: “Metrics #Sonification as a New Way to Convey Bibliometric #Data” https://www.infodocket.com/2025/03/18/lutz-bornmann-metrics-sonification-as-a-new-way-to-convey-bibliometric-data/ #scholcomm #audio #bibliometrics @leidenmadtrics
Report: DOGE Order Leads to Journal Cancellation by U.S. Agricultural Library https://www.infodocket.com/2025/03/18/report-doge-order-leads-to-journal-cancellation-by-u-s-agricultural-library/ #libraries #scholcomm #publishers
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."
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0317736
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.
Thomas, W. J., Kaefring, A. & Hoover, J. K., (2025) “Motivations and barriers to publishing #OpenAccess #book chapters and #monographs: An institutional perspective”, Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication 12(2). doi: https://doi.org/10.31274/jlsc.18280
Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly CommunicationMotivations and barriers to publishing open access book chapters and monographs: An institutional perspectiveIntroduction: Recent years have seen an increase in publishers exploring open access for monographs and book chapters. Programs like the Direct to Open from MIT Press and JSTOR’s Path to Open have provided avenues for libraries and authors to support open access monographs generally, but not campus authors specifically. On our campus, we have seen an increase in requests for and questions about publishing monographs and book chapters open access.
Description of Program: We offer several options for support for open access article publishing, including transformational agreements, institutional memberships, and an open access fund, but have limited resources and strategies for supporting book and chapter authors to make their publications open access. To gauge our authors’ awareness and interest, we surveyed faculty who recently published a book or chapter about their publishing experiences with a focus on open access publishing. In addition to our survey, we conducted interviews with faculty to gain a better understanding of open access publishing from their perspective as recent authors.
Next Steps: In response to this research, the library has explored new methods of supporting open monograph publishing and plans to develop open education resources and webinars about the open monograph publishing process.
Roundup: openRxiv Launch to Sustain and Expand Preprint Sharing in Life and Health Sciences USA https://www.infodocket.com/2025/03/11/openrxiv-launch-to-sustain-and-expand-preprint-sharing-in-life-and-health-sciences-usa/ #scholcomm #preprints #publishing #science #
#Repositories out of the Blind Spot of Initiatives to Correct the Scholarly Record
by Frédérique Bordignon
Learned Publishing, 2025, 38(2)
New study: When journals publish "potentially untrustworthy" papers and must decide whether to issue a retraction, expression of concern, correction, or vindication, "it took a median time of 38 months for editors and publishers to decide, with 13% of the flagged cases reaching a decision within 12 months."
https://obgyn.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1471-0528.18100
This is a good piece on #Flipboard joining the #Fediverse.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/06/technology/mike-mccue-surf-browser-decentralized-internet.html
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?
The New York Times · Facing the Looming Threat of A.I., Publishers Turn to Decentralized Platforms