Stefanie Haustein

Nice way to finish the year with such a quote in @science.org news: "Stefanie Haustein, an information scientist at the University of Ottawa, doesn’t buy publishers’ arguments." Thank you @phiejacobs.bsky.social! doi.org/10.1126/scie...

Getting ready to soft launch something this week in Ottawa..

"Open science has been building standards and norms...AI has ignored this...just sucked everything in..we need to reclaim ownership" Some of us have said for years we need more nuance to openness given the potential for extractive commercial re-use 1/n scedmunds.substack.com/p/sage-advic...

Last week the Canadian Tri-Agencies released their update OA policy that we've all been waiting for a looooooong time. Here's my take on what it does and doesn't do and what it all means for funded researchers, their institutions, and the public. www.scholcommlab.ca/2026/10/15/c...

I just published my German Open Science book with @uni-muenster.de's library. It contains most of what I know about open science, can be understood by undergraduates, and is free. - published PDF: www.uni-muenster.de/Ebooks/index... - Quarto version: lukasroeseler.github.io/openscienceb...

This analysis combined OpenAlex journal-year article counts with an accompanying APC dataset that's free and open for your reuse. Tracking 2,540 unique journals across 14 publishers and seven years, for 69,856 journal-year combinations. doi.org/10.7910/DVN/...

We include graphs to break down patterns by publisher, OA type, and year, and again look at APCs listed/offered vs. APCs chosen/paid.

🚨Update: Our analysis of global APC expenditure has now been expanded to cover more publishers (7 -> 14) and more years (2019-2025). We estimate $15B in APCs paid over seven years, $3.7B in 2025 alone. Elsevier crosses the $1B threshold by itself in 2025. arxiv.org/abs/2608.16322 #ScholComm

🌐 In our new blog post, Juan Pablo Bascur introduces the ORION Dashboard: a tool that makes #openresearchdata accessible, interactive, and easy to explore 👩‍💻. 🔎 Discover the blog post here 👉 www.leidenmadtrics.nl/articles/ori...

"Funders serious about timely, open, and equitable access to research must explicitly recognize preprint sharing as a route to Open Access compliance" I know I'm a broken record on this but it seems so blindingly obvious... #PlanU journals.plos.org/plosbiology/... council.science/blog/open-sc...

If you enjoyed the first edition, get ready for the 2nd Canadian Open Science Conference!!🍁 #savethedate : 27-29 October, @uottawa.ca more info and CfA coming soon ! sign up for the mailing list, you don't want to miss it 💫 #AcademicSky #OpenScience #ScholComm @stefhaustein.scholcommlab.ca

🔓 Our latest article presents an analysis of bronze open access publications in the Web of Science database. Reviewers did not identify major weaknesses, calling it solid, timely & sound, and suggested expanding the discussion on the concept of bronze OA. 👇 Read the full evaluation now on MetaROR

In support of #OpenScience, we routinely ask authors to openly share their #research #code before publication. We are now formalizing this practice with a mandatory #CodeSharing policy and clarifying what we mean by code sharing.

Can temporary pop-up journals (designed to answer one specific research question) become popular among researchers? My latest for @nature.com: www.nature.com/articles/d41... @mattsclancy.bsky.social, @stefhaustein.scholcommlab.ca

Last year, the KB presented the initial OPENBIB data release, which contains selected and curated metadata from OpenAlex. See this new blog post tinyurl.com/58zmb79z for an updated data release based on the OAL snapshot from July 25. This data release also features a KB author disambiguation system.

V useful piece dispelling myths about NIH policy on open access upstream.force11.org/cost-of-conf...

🟢 Trump secoue les publis Intimidations, voire fermeture de certaines revues, coupure d’abonnements, volonté de limiter les frais de publication... On fait le bilan d'un an de Donald Trump au pouvoir themeta.news/ledition-sci... #VeilleESR @stefhaustein.scholcommlab.ca

All set for New Horizons 💎 #OpenAccess in Nijmegen! Thank you to the organisers for the opportunity to speak on the Strain, Stain, & Drain of scientific publishing. Looking forward to great conversations on moving #ScientificPublishing forward! bit.ly/StrainQSS www.horizondiamond.nl#schedule

OK, day off, but I wanted to share this: codeberg.org/gbilder/inst... "Instead" is an intriguing proposal by the super-smart @gbilder.com to give AI bots a pointer to a prepackaged downloadable static version of a site. Bear with me, as I know this sounds bad at first glance.

📣 Our introduction to structural causal models in science studies is now published: doi.org/10.1162/QSS.... @tklebel.bsky.social and I tried to make our introduction as accessible as possible. We illustrate the theory by three case studies based on a simulated model of Open Science. 🧵(1/6)

New resource: a practical guide to publication and cost monitoring through institutional #OpenAccess repositories. English summary: doi.org/10.59350/rhe... #OpenScience @ibi-hu.bsky.social, @humboldtuni.bsky.social

NOR US! Another three UK universities decline new Elsevier deal www.timeshighereducation.com/news/three-m... - Sheffield, Lancaster and Surrey confirm they are walking away from proposed three-year deal with world’s largest academic publisher. (paywalled sorry)

Thousands of scientists inflate their CVs with self-published studies that cost millions of dollars of public money 1 in 8 'special issues' is filled with articles written by the editor, particularly at the publisher MDPI @manuelansede.bsky.social english.elpais.com/science-tech...

Given all the news about ICE in the past few weeks, can I kindly remind you all that RELX (owners of Elsevier & LexisNexis) is "mission-critical" to ICE. ICE pays RELX Group and Thomson Reuters millions of dollars for the personal data it needs to fuel its big data policing program […]

@cometadata.bsky.social has been demonstrating it's possible to do big things! Matched over ~400K preprints 1/ ~2 MILLION authors to RORs—now in an openly available dataset. Come learn what we've been up to, what's next, and how to get involved. Next community call next week. Details below.

In Scientific #Publishing, Who Should Foot the Bill? undark.org/2026/01/07/a... (via @undark.org) #scholcomm #libraries @juancommander.scholcommlab.ca @stefhaustein.scholcommlab.ca

🧪 I ran into this in another list. The title and the abstract of this paper is quite provocative. Table 1 with the profits of the 6 major sci publishing companies is something. arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820

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...

(Also, icyi, here are the 42 papers citing our non-existent paper which includes a "meta-analysis" - often called the evidence "gold standard" - of "LLM effects" in education 🤮 scholar.google.com.vn/scholar?star...)

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

"Today, the system rewards commercial publishers first, and science second. Without bold action from the funders we risk continuing to pour resources into a system that prioritizes profit over the advancement of scientific knowledge". doi.org/10.48550/arX...

Elsevier at its best: they only embrace #openscience when it makes money and does not endanger their assets. Now that Crossref data is CC0 and used by 3rd parties (OpenAlex, Matilda,...), they just keep data in their systems @keanbirch.bsky.social #openresearchinformation @barcelonadori.bsky.social

Intense discussion with The Drain authors today about where to submit Part II.. And somehow @lariviev.bsky.social launched the idea of hockey jerseys?! Thanks for your service, ChatGPT. @danbrockington.bsky.social @hansonmark.bsky.social @stephenpinfield.bsky.social @aileenfyfe.bsky.social

Excited to join @braccolaetitia.social.sciences.re.ap.brid.gy & team at Open Science Monitoring Inititative (OSMI) as steering board member. Looking forward to work w/ Cécile Coulibaly, Moumita Koley, @susannanykyri.bsky.social & @jeroenson.bsky.social open-science-monitoring.org/meet-the-fiv...

On the 7th day before break, the OA community gave to us: Landmark research into the state of academic publishing. @hansonmark.bsky.social & team produced two papers: 'The Strain/Drain on Scientific Publishing' demonstrating the challenges we face doi.org/10.1162/qss_... doi.org/10.48550/arX...

We Need to Talk About the Billion-Dollar Industry Holding Science Hostage https://www.zmescience.com/science/news-science/we-need-to-talk-about-the-billion-dollar-industry-holding-science-hostage/

La ciencia bajo el control de las grandes editoriales Un estudio del ICTA-UAB liderado por @danbrockington.bsky.social revela cómo el sistema de publicación científica prioriza ganancias frente al avance del conocimiento y la integridad académica. digitum-um.blogspot.com/2025/12/la-c...

A great first day of conference in Mendoza, discussing many aspects relevant to the drain of scientific publishing

Panel en el workshop CECIC en la UNCuyo sobre the drain of scholarly publishing con @juancommander.scholcommlab.ca @lariviev.bsky.social @stefhaustein.scholcommlab.ca y la anfitriona Fernanda Beigel. Un lujazo 🌟

Excited to discuss dilemmas of #openscience and research assessment reforms in Argentina the next couple of days. Thank you to hostess extraordinaire Fernanda Beigel for bringing us together in Mendoza 🇦🇷

Girls ages 16 years or younger who received HPV vaccines were 80% less likely than their unvaccinated counterparts to develop cervical cancer. Evidence from 23 studies showed that HPV vaccination lowered the incidence of high-grade cervical precancers. 🧪 www.cochrane.org/about-us/new...

Scientific Reports has a ⬆️ Impact Inflation: a very high IF given their citation network (self-citing, citation cartels, etc). They'll even typeset & publish AI slop for a fee! Strain: bit.ly/StrainQSS Strain explorer β: pagoba.shinyapps.io/strain_explo... #SciPub #ResearchIntegrity #AcademicSky

Publikations- und Kostenmonitoring: Handlungsfeld für institutionelle Open-Access-Repositorien. Pro OAR DE Handreichung. https://zenodo.org/records/17357984

Nature Sci Rep publishes incoherent AI slop. eLife publishes a paper which the reviewers didn't agree with, making all the comments and responses public with thoughtful commentary. One of these journals got delisted by Web of Science for quality concerns from not doing peer review. Guess which one?