📉 Alors que les francophones forment près du quart de la population canadienne, moins de 10 % de la recherche est publiée en français — et moins de 5 % de la recherche financée par le fédéral 🎧 L'entrevue sur Ohdio : ici.radio-canada.ca/ohdio/premie... @sablondin.bsky.social @lariviev.bsky.social

-> Advancing Diamond : A Portrait 🎥 Last April, “Advancing Diamond” brought together nearly 80 experts in scholarly publishing for two days of friendly and productive discussions. 📌 shorturl.at/oac74

U.S. science agencies are forecast to pay more for #openaccess publication of journal articles. Are they ready? And is the author-pays business model sustainable? A GAO report draws criticism. #scholcomm @science.org www.science.org/content/arti...

U.S. agencies aren’t ready for the rising cost of making research papers free, report warns

Science agencies could soon face nearly $1 billion publishing bill, Congressional analysts find

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Two new facts stand out: 1. 85% of hallucinated citations in preprints are also in the subsequent journal version (thanks, peer review!) 2. Fake cites more likely to use the names of (male) scholars who are already highly cited, creating a fake-citation Matthew effect. arxiv.org/abs/2605.07723

LLM hallucinations in the wild: Large-scale evidence from non-existent citations

Large language models (LLMs) are known to generate plausible but false information across a wide range of contexts, yet the real-world magnitude and consequences of this hallucination problem remain p...

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Well, well. A science publisher (Elsevier) decides to sue an AI firm over copyright infringement. Lawsuit with other publishers (Macmillan, Hachette etc.) vs Meta for training Llama models on copyrighted content, in Common Crawl and then from Sci-Hub among others. www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

Major publishers sue Meta for copyright infringement over AI training

Publishers Elsevier, Cengage, Hachette , Macmillan and McGraw Hill sued Meta Platforms in Manhattan federal court on Tuesday, alleging ​that the tech giant misused their books and journal articles to ...

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#LANGUAGE “Non-English-speaking researchers can now produce work in their own language, but they must still engage with literature overwhelmingly written in English," says @caropradier.bsky.social, co-author of a new study directed by @lariviev.bsky.social. nouvelles.umontreal.ca/en/article/2...

English remains the lingua franca of scholarly publications, but other languages are gaining ground

Drawing on 88 million articles across all disciplines, an UdeM study examines the global evolution of language use in academic publishing between 1990 and 2023.

nouvelles.umontreal.ca

Le « Big Five » : un oligopole en perte de vitesse www.acfas.ca/publications... avec @juancommander.scholcommlab.ca @simonvbellen.bsky.social @acfas.ca @chaire-dcsf.bsky.social

Le « Big Five » : un oligopole en perte de vitesse

Découvrabilité | La domination croissante des géants de l’édition sur l’écosystème mondial de la publication savante est un fait largement documenté; cependant, l’essor récent de bases de données plus...

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#ScientificPublishing when authors pay: journal cascading Nature > Nature X,Y > Nature Progress > Nature Progress X,Y never shall an author go to your competitors! Same as Springer Discover, freely inspired by MDPI: the-strain-on-scientific-publishing.github.io/website/post...

Springer Nature Discovers MDPI – The Strain on Scientific Publishing

Home page for the paper ‘The Strain on Scientific Publishing’ by Mark A Hanson, Dan Brockington, Paolo Crosetto and Pablo Gomez Barreiro

the-strain-on-scientific-publishing.github.io

Research Information@researchinfo.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Springer Nature launches Nature Progress open access journal series www.researchinformation.info/news/springe... Nature Progress Oncology and Nature Progress Brain Health will open for submissions next month @springernature.com

New paper alert! 🤩 if you have also wondered "how multilingual is scholarly communication?", check out our work where we try to find an answer by mapping the global distribution of languages in publications and citations. Gros merci @caropradier.bsky.social and @lariviev.bsky.social 💚 #AcademicSky

We've got ISSUES. Literally. We scraped >100k special issues & over 1 million articles to bring you a PISS-poor paper. We quantify just how many excess papers are published by guest editors abusing special issues to boost their CVs. How bad is it & what can we do? arxiv.org/abs/2601.07563 A 🧵 1/n

I wish 2026 is the year we stop the drain that scientific publishers impose on science. Instead of funding science, increasing shares of shrinking research budgets are funneled to publishers in exchange of.. not much. Understand the strain: tinyurl.com/2b6wxx5r Stop the drain: tinyurl.com/3jfscscy

"An academic discovers a paper attributed to him that does not exist has been cited 42 times" is a sentence with an actual referent in 2025.

Ben Williamson@benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵 Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...

OpenAlex intégré au Web of Science, ou la capture du travail des “commoners” | carnetist.hypotheses.org/2572

OpenAlex intégré au Web of Science, ou la capture du travail des “commoners”

C’est une annonce qui est passée relativement inaperçue, mais qui mérite que l’on s’y arrête un instant. Clarivate a récemment annoncé l’intégration d’OpenAlex comme une nouvelle base de données au se...

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A high-performing innovation ecosystem is essential to the well-being of all people in Canada. Our newest report details the state of science, technology, and innovation in Canada, including key drivers shaping the ecosystem, and barriers and knowledge gaps. 🧪 go.cca-reports.ca/4jPxfm0

The State of Science, Technology, and Innovation in Canada 2025

Over the last 20 years, the CCA has carried out a series of assessments evaluating...

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💥New: Money, Time, Trust, Control – How commercial publishers drain science ✍️ @danbrockington.bsky.social @aileenfyfe.bsky.social @stefhaustein.scholcommlab.ca #AcademicSky #ScholComm #AcademicPublishing

Money, Time, Trust, Control – How commercial publishers drain science - Impact of Social Sciences

Have the interests of commercial publishers now become antithetical to the pursuit of knowledge?

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À paraître demain! Notre tout nouveau rapport détaille l’état de la science, de la technologie et de l’innovation au Canada. go.cca-reports.ca/444LTBg Abonnez-vous à notre liste de diffusion pour être averti de sa parution : bit.ly/cca-advance

'Such reliance on rankings means that universities are shaped not by the needs of society or by innovations driven from inside the international higher-education community, but by unappointed third-party ranking agencies' @lizziegadd.bsky.social in Nature www.nature.com/articles/d41...

To reform universities, first tackle global rankings

Universities are in thrall to a rankings system that prioritizes narrow aspects of academic life. Three changes would give institutions the freedom to explore fresh ways of working.

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Profits from scientific publishing are eye-watering, costing us billions. In ‘The Drain of Scientific Publishing’ (arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820), (building on ‘The Strain of Scientific Publishing’ doi.org/10.1162/qss_a_00327) we show how it is harmful – and unnecessary.

The Drain of Scientific Publishing

The domination of scientific publishing in the Global North by major commercial publishers is harmful to science. We need the most powerful members of the research community, funders, governments and ...

arxiv.org

🧵 1/ 🚨 New paper out in PLOS ONE! w/ @caropradier.bsky.social @benzpierre.bsky.social @natsush.bsky.social @ipoga.bsky.social @lariviev.bsky.social We studied 43k authors and 264k citation links in U.S. economics to ask: 👉 Why do some papers cite others? 🔗 journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

OurResearch rebrands to OpenAlex. blog.openalex.org/were-now-ope...

We’re now OpenAlex - OpenAlex blog

For years, we’ve been working under the name OurResearch. That name sat at the top of our org chart, with three child projects under it: OpenAlex, Unpaywall, and Unsub. Starting today, things are simp...

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"Publish (in English) or Perish", mythe ou réalité institutionnelle? www.acfas.ca/publications...

"Publish (in English) or Perish", mythe ou réalité institutionnelle?

Découvrabilité | La littérature révèle l'existence d'une perception répandue parmi les chercheur·euses d'une obligation de publier en anglais pour assurer la progression de leur carrière. Mais d’où vi...

acfas.ca

QSS is now accepting articles that have gone through independent, open peer review via MetaResearch Open Review (MetaROR). The authors of an article on tracking transformative agreements through open metadata shared their experiences using MetaROR's Publish-Review-Curate (PRC) model:

The MetaROR Publish-Review-Curate Model: our experience as authors | Open Science NL

As professionals working in open science and scholarly communication reform, we believe in practicing what we preach. That’s why we recently chose to publish an article using the…

openscience.nl

→ Plaidoyer pour le multilinguisme en sciences 📚 Article à lire : @bowkerl.bsky.social, Mikael Laakso & @jpolonen.bsky.social explorent les risques liés au monolinguisme anglophone sur l’écosystème scientifique. 📌 L'article : id.erudit.org/iderudit/111... 📌 Résumé de l'article : shorturl.at/nKGgo

Wonderful news! Many thanks to @lariviev.bsky.social & all the nearly 5k other organizational & individual signatories of the #DefendResearch Declaration!

#DefendResearch@defendresearch.bsky.social · last yr.

Grateful that @lariviev.bsky.social has signed the Declaration to #DefendResearch Against U.S. Government #Censorship as himself and as the UNESCO Chair on Open Science. Such critical support for raising awareness of what's at stake! @unesco.org #OpenScience #SciSky #Academia defendresearch.org

A new view of the state of the scholarly publishing oligopoly: doi.org/10.1371/jour... Considering journals and papers published, big publishers have been losing ground, as many independent journals have been created, especially since 2000. With @juancommander.scholcommlab.ca @lariviev.bsky.social

Today, our colleague Thed van Leeuwen gives his inaugural lecture at Leiden University. Ahead of the event, he shares key insights — calling for a more human-centred approach in #OpenScience. 📰 Read more: www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2025... @leidensocial.bsky.social

‘Don’t let open science degenerate into a data dump’

An endless stream of publications, data and software accessible to all? Professor of Science Studies Thed van Leeuwen calls for a more human-centred approach and an overhaul of the PhD system.

universiteitleiden.nl

📢 Our new study challenges the prevailing narrative that a few commercial publishers dominate global scholarly publishing! Read the preprint: Beyond the oligopoly: Scholarly journal publishing landscapes in Latin America and Europe. doi.org/10.31235/osf...

The world's largest science publishers - which enjoy huge power & profits - consistently pay men more than women We analysed 8 years of #genderpaygap data & contrast staggering pay inequities w/ the warm glow publishers often get for #EDI #genderequality Pls share our new paper & Call to Action

Gender pay gaps and inequity at science publishers

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New from The Strain Team: 🎊 Springer Nature Discovers MDPI 🎊 Springer Nature has spawned a copycat journal series called "Discover" mimicking #MDPI journal titles and citation behaviours. We even made a browser game to prove it (see 🔗). Gross! 😀 1/n #ResearchIntegrity #SciPub #AcademicSky

Spinger Nature Discovers MDPI – The Strain on Scientific Publishing

Home page for the paper ‘The Strain on Scientific Publishing’ by Mark A Hanson, Dan Brockington, Paolo Crosetto and Pablo Gomez Barreiro

the-strain-on-scientific-publishing.github.io