Like "Linux on the Desktop" will 2025 be the year that academics finally realise that choosing to publish with Elsevier isn't a good idea?
key quote from Elsevier rep:
"rights of papers are owned by the publishers hence, there is no consent needed from authors"
Translation:
We're allowed to do it because you signed your rights away. We're going to do it because $MONEY. You can't stop us doing it. Byeeee!
Source: https://irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2025/08/12/ai-slop-and-the-destruction-of-knowledge/
A new study examined how well US university faculty across disciplines know about #PredatoryJournals. The strongest predictor of knowledge wasn’t career length or early-career status - it was the number of articles published in the past 5 years.
https://doi.org/10.1002/leap.2020
The authors conclude that professional development on this topic should target not only early-career, but also senior researchers - especially those who rarely publish in journals.
Explore the Hogrefe Super Collection on #ScienceOpen!
Discover 22K+ articles spanning psychology and SDG-driven research—covering topics from mental health to global equity and education.
Find out more in our blog post: https://blog.scienceopen.com/2025/08/hogrefe-on-scienceopen/
"A growing tide of fake papers is flooding the scientific record and proliferating faster than current checks can rid them from the system, scientists warn.
The source of the trouble is “paper mills,” businesses or individuals that charge fees to publish fake studies in legitimate journals under the names of desperate scientists whose careers depend on their publishing record.
The rate of fake papers generated by these operators roughly doubled every 1.5 years between 2016 and 2020, according to a study published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
“The entire structure of science could collapse if this is left unaddressed,” said study author Luís Amaral, a physicist at Northwestern University.
Paper mills look for weak links, such as lax verification protocols, in the typically rigorous publication machinery, then exploit those to place hundreds of fabricated studies with vulnerable journals or publishers, according to scientist investigators who have been tracking and cataloging their work.
It can be a costly mess to clean up.
Publishers who have become aware of suspected paper mill activity have been forced to retract hundreds of papers at once, and in some cases shut down journals."
https://www.wsj.com/science/scientific-journals-fake-paper-mills-92e42230
We want your feedback! New PKP + SFU open publishing courses coming soon!
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- PUB 611: Making Knowledge Public
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Call for Papers
Be part of Issue #1 of The Continuum, an interdisciplinary academic journal published by the renowned PHI Learning.
Learn more here - https://pallavighxsh.github.io/tcj-landing-page/ We're seeking bold, original research that pushes boundaries across disciplines.
Don’t miss your chance to be featured by a trusted academic publisher.
We want your feedback! New PKP + SFU open publishing courses coming soon!
New courses:
* PUB 611: Making Knowledge Public
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* PUB 604: Technologies and Infrastructure for #AcademicPublishing
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Dorothy Bishop calculates in
"New publishing models will only work if authors embrace them": https://deevybee.blogspot.com/2025/07/new-publishing-models-will-only-work-if.html
"Meanwhile, between 2021-2025 around US$973 million* in APCs has gone into the coffers of publishers - money that could have been used to fund researchers in other ways. On a rough estimate, around US$197 million of this has been paid to the most popular publisher, MDPI."
How many researchers and teachers could be paid if instead "Open Research Europe" (https://open-research-europe.ec.europa.eu/) was publishing their results?
#AcademicChatter
#AcademicPublishing
#Publishing
#Research
#APCs
I'm very pleased to share that my chapter on the Zombie Mermaid has been published as part of the new edited volume "Deconstructing the Zombie: Cultural and Ideological Approaches".
Warm thanks to the editors, Cristina and Alfonso, for guiding this ambitious project to fruition — and for inviting me to be a small part of it.
"on predatory academic journals and conferences" https://patthomson.net/2025/07/16/on-predatory-academic-journals-and-conferences/
#predatorypublishing #academicpublishing #researchassessment
"Adopting CRediT encourages a positive research culture where all colleagues who conduct and enable research are acknowledged appropriately for their contribution."
Useful guide to the CRediT Taxonomy published by colleagues at #DundeeUni:
https://discovery.dundee.ac.uk/en/publications/credit-taxonomy-recognising-research-contributions
100% confident that a 2009 TetLett has the wrong structures associated with some NMR spectra (basically the entirety of the SI). It will definitely be a short few sentences in the paper I’m writing. Do I inform the journal? #chemistry #corrections #academia #AcademicPublishing #ethics
We want your feedback! New PKP + SFU open publishing courses coming soon!
New courses:
* PUB 611: Making Knowledge Public
* PUB 603: #JournalManagement and Editing
* PUB 604: Technologies and Infrastructure for #AcademicPublishing
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Are you in #EarthScience and interested in improving #AcademicPublishing options in your field? I am preparing a proposal for a PCI Eart Sciences, which would be part of https://peercommunityin.org/ family of journals. The digital infrastructure and brand are there, i have benefited as an author and as an editor from PCI Paleo and I can attest to the high quality and robustness of this platform and process. Being involved doesn’t actually require committing a lot of your time, as it takes years to establish a new journal. At this point it is more about launching it and making it visible, so I am primarily looking for mid-to senior-career collaborators who can help steer publications towards this venue. Especially if you’re in the field of #EnvironmentalScience, #Tectonics, #Petrology, #Mineralogy, #PhysicalGeography, #Hydrogeology, #EarthSystemScience and #Climate you are most welcome as these fields are underrepresented in my network. You can contribute by becoming an editor, pledging a submission, or helping recruit a BigName in your field (maybe that’s you?). Please have a look at https://peercommunityin.org/ or get in touch. #OpenAccess #OpenScience #geoscience #OpenPeerReview
The presentation slides from our talk at #LIBER2025 are now published and available at LIBER 2025 Zenodo Community.
Check it out: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15827806
Open Journal Systems (OJS) 3.5 is out now — with powerful new features built from community feedback!
What’s new?
* Redesigned Editorial Dashboard
* Invite users (no manual input!)
* Built-in ORCID support
* Auto editorial board tracking
* Author-suggested reviewers
* Homepage Highlights and more
Explore features: https://pkp.sfu.ca/2025/07/16/ojs-3-5-enhanced-features/
Read books. Read academic articles written by human beings. Read long-length blog posts written by people of flesh and blood. Ultimately. when it comes to scientific research there can be no shortcuts to the real hard work of really absorbing the meaning behind the text.
"Even if individual scientists benefit from adopting AI, it doesn’t mean science as a whole will benefit. When thinking about the macro effects, we are dealing with a complex system with emergent properties. That system behaves in surprising ways because it is not a market. It is better than markets at some things, like rewarding truth, but worse at others, such as reacting to technological shocks. So far, on balance, AI has been an unhealthy shock to science, stretching many of its processes to the breaking point.
Any serious attempt to forecast the impact of AI on science must confront the production-progress paradox. The rate of publication of scientific papers has been growing exponentially, increasing 500 fold between 1900 and 2015. But actual progress, by any available measure, has been constant or even slowing. So we must ask how AI is impacting, and will impact, the factors that have led to this disconnect.
Our analysis in this essay suggests that AI is likely to worsen the gap. This may not be true in all scientific fields, and it is certainly not a foregone conclusion. By carefully and urgently taking actions such as those we suggest below, it may be possible to reverse course. Unfortunately, AI companies, science funders, and policy makers all seem oblivious to what the actual bottlenecks to scientific progress are. They are simply trying to accelerate production, which is like adding lanes to a highway when the slowdown is actually caused by a toll booth. It’s sure to make things worse."
What is a Preprint and Why Should I Care?
Toot 1: Preprints are not only a way for you to share your research fast, but also allow you to make your paper open access for free.
One of the joys of working at a university is that I need to dip into dark corners of the internet to get only ~25% of the research papers I want/need to read and not ~97%.
People, try to publish #OpenAccess, or at least post #preprints.
EAZ Special Issue: "Tool or pitfall? Obsolete narratives in prehistoric archaeology – questioning, unlearning, rethinking" – Call for Papers
EAZ invites submissions for the special issue edited by S. Schaefer-Di Maida, V. Arponen and G. Di Maida.
Deadline for submissions: 15 Oct 2025
For details: https://www.eaz-journal.org/index.php/eaz/announcement/view/22
#CfP #archaeology #theory #eaz #AcademicPublishing
