📣 Our friends at the #ScholCommLab have published a preprint, "The Drain of #ScientificPublishing", and are calling for #research communities, funders, governments, and #universities to "re-communalise publishing to serve #science not the market"

PKP supports this call, and works to develop and maintain free open software for independent scholarly publishing.

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2511.04820

#ScholComm #AcademicChatter #FOSS #BetterPublishing #ScholarlyPublishing #IndependentPublishing #OpenAccess

At the #OAWeek Indiana University Library Keynote, PKP's Juan Pablo Alperin @juancommander shows how 'exclusive databases sustain the oligopoly of academic publishers' - hidden diversity shows up when considering more inclusive databases

The paper: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0327015

#OpenAccess #ScholComm #ScholCommLab #ScholarlyPublishing #OpenInfrastructure #AcademicChatter

Postdoctoral Fellowship on #Preprints and #OpenPeerReview with the #ScholCommLab at Simon Fraser University #SFU!

Co-directed by @juancommander and @stefhaustein

"This position will support the lab’s broader goal of advancing more equitable, transparent, and sustainable forms of knowledge dissemination..."

International applicants are welcome. Visa sponsorship is available.

This lab does incredible work! Check it out and join this fabulous team:

https://www.scholcommlab.ca/join-us/hiring-postdoctoral-fellow-on-preprints-and-open-peer-review/

#AcademicChatter

Our #APC analysis preprint was cited in a Wall Street Journal story today, along with Elsevier's response.

https://www.wsj.com/business/media/scientific-journals-quality-publishers-6399fc95?st=NQ8a7Z

#AcademicPublishing #MetaSci #ScholCommLab

Looking forward to next week's CARL BRIC February Call. Leigh-Ann Butler and I will present the #ScholCommLab 's open dataset of #APCs and recent analysis paper.

https://www.carl-abrc.ca/mini-site-page/carl-bibliometrics-and-research-impact-community-of-practice-february-call-a-dataset-and-bibliometric-approach-to-estimating-annual-article-processing-charges-for-six-scholarly-publishers/

💡 New article at the #LSEImpactBlog questions aligning #preprints to traditional #academic publications as it undermines the purpose of preprints

The article also presents research investigating the role of preprints and journalists over time.

By Natascha Chtena, PKP Scientific Director Juan Pablo Alperin @juancommander and Alice Fleerackers at the #SFU #ScholCommLab

https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2024/11/13/preprints-at-a-crossroads-are-we-compromising-openness-for-credibility/

TWO NEW PREPRINTS (about #preprints). Based on interviews with 14 preprint server staff and offer deep insights into the present and future of preprinting

1. “Does it feel like a scientific paper?”: A qualitative analysis of preprint servers’ moderation and quality assurance processes: https://doi.org/10.31222/osf.io/mp6ky

2. Preprint servers and journals: Rivals or allies? https://doi.org/10.31222/osf.io/fuydh

Super excited to share this great work led by Dr. Natascha Chtena (researcher at the #ScholCommLab )