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The CNRS is breaking free from the Web of #Science (starting 2026-01-01)
https://www.cnrs.fr/en/update/cnrs-breaking-free-web-science
At least 50 hallucinated citations found in ICLR 2026 submissions
https://gptzero.me/news/iclr-2026/
#HackerNews #hallucinatedcitations #ICLR2026 #AIethics #researchintegrity #academicpublishing #machinelearning
Scientific publishing may be the biggest scam you've never heard of. A billion-dollar industry built on free labor and public money—then sold back to us at a markup. It's not just broken. It's sabotaging progress.
#Science #OpenAccess #AcademicPublishing
#CRAFT-OA developed the FAIR Publishing Toolkit to help #DiamondOA publishers self-assess their data collections against the FAIR principles. Ensuring better💡discoverability of the content.
Check it out: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15783917
Diamond #OpenAccess academic publishers want to ensure their journals meet established technical standards & requirements - to be professional and in line with #FAIR principles. CRAFT-OA training materials can help.
Learn more: https://www.craft-oa.eu/trainings-workshops/
#DiamondOA #DiamondOpenAccess #ScholarlyPublishing #AcademicPublishing
Scientific publishing may be the biggest scam you've never heard of. A billion-dollar industry built on free labor and public money—then sold back to us at a markup. It's not just broken. It's sabotaging progress.
#Science #OpenAccess #AcademicPublishing
The CNRS is breaking free from the Web of #Science (starting 2026-01-01)
https://www.cnrs.fr/en/update/cnrs-breaking-free-web-science
Something that baffles me about academic publishing is that if you write a conceptual paper making an argument for something, PR often demands to know exactly how you chose the literature to make your argument. These (often) same people promote rampant use of Gen AI for all kinds of academic work, with no such standard applied (its impossible to have it).
What gives?
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A rich collection of #DiamondOA resources showcasing the strength of community-led, no-fee #AcademicPublishing initiatives. https://www.craft-oa.eu/craft-oa-final-conference/
arXiv No Longer Accepts Computer Science Position or Review Papers Due to LLMs
#HackerNews #arXiv #LLMs #ComputerScience #ResearchUpdates #AcademicPublishing
The problem is that the goal is knowledge dispersal. In the days of limited bandwidth, the hard part was getting the knowledge out there. Those days are gone. In the days of flooded bandwidth, readers will not find you in the ocean of text, you need a process to reach them. It is still very true (unfortunately!) that papers published in prestige journals get cited more than papers published in workhorse journals which get cited more than papers published in low-tier journals which get cited more than preprints.
If you want your science to have impact (and no, I don't mean "impact factor" --- I mean if you want people to build on your work), then you have to play the prestige game. It sucks, but there really isn't an alternative. (Show me people getting jobs and awards from purely bioRxiv preprints.) This is very much a prisoner's dilemma situation. What we need is collective action. Individuals only screw themselves without it.
It is like @pluralistic has been pointing out about the #enshittification in the rest of the corporate world. (Actually,
#AcademicPublishing is probably one of the best examples of enshittification. It sucks but it is nearly impossible to leave for all the reasons he gives.)
My current hope lies in the combination of preprints + post-preprint publishing as a slow replacement for the current problematic system.
Don't be this reviewer, who uses #ChatGPT to show the references that I should have cited, and which are of course fake.
And don't be the editor who let this through as an allowable review.
And then make a final decision that won't be reconsidered.
Calling out publisher IOP Publishing https://ioppublishing.org/
and their journal Environmental Research Commications.
New #AcademicYear - New #introduction
I am a researcher at #DundeeUni and interested in health-related quality of life
#HRQoL #Psychometrics
I teach #ResearchMethodology and #ResearchMethods with a focus on #Quantitative methods.
I worked for 7yrs as a #NightshiftEditor and I am still mulling over roles in and sense of #AcademicPublishing
This is mainly a work account, but I also post #Dundee stuff such as #DunDeCofaidh and occasional #Deutsch #Svenska #Gaidhlig (👉 pure work account at BSky)
Don't be this reviewer, who uses #ChatGPT to show the references that I should have cited, and which are of course fake.
And don't be the editor who let this through as an allowable review.
And then make a final decision that won't be reconsidered.
Calling out publisher IOP Publishing https://ioppublishing.org/
and their journal Environmental Research Commications.
This is getting worse by the minute. I followed @christof|s hint concerning the reproduction of articles from #DHQ / @DHQuarterly looking for one of my own papers (https://digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/16/2/000593/000593.html).
In this case #ProQuest blatantly violates the CC BY-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/) by
- not mentioning the license
- producing a derivative
- not linking to the original
I am very much in favour of @adho.org, as the publisher of @DHQuarterly, follows the path outlined by @dingemansemark. I will also log a complaint with #ProQuest through my employer.
#AcademicPublishing#Licensing#Piracy#PlatformCapitalism#PredatoryPublishing
After reading through the CC BY license I am none the wiser whether one has to clearly indicate that the material in question had been originally published somewhere else. The DOI as provided by #ProQuest reveals this fact but only after manually parsing the string with a resolver. Readers unfamiliar with the Programming Historian are made to believe that ProQuest is the original publisher or the platform officially hosting the original content.
However, ProQuest clearly violates the attribution requirements by modifying the layout and removing images. The CC BY license explicitly states that “You must […] indicate if You modified the Licensed Material”.
#AcademicPublishing#PredatoryPublishing#OpenLicenses#CreativeCommons#DigitalHumanities
This is getting worse by the minute. I followed @christof|s hint concerning the reproduction of articles from #DHQ / @DHQuarterly looking for one of my own papers (https://digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/16/2/000593/000593.html).
In this case #ProQuest blatantly violates the CC BY-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/) by
- not mentioning the license
- producing a derivative
- not linking to the original
I am very much in favour of @adho.org, as the publisher of @DHQuarterly, follows the path outlined by @dingemansemark. I will also log a complaint with #ProQuest through my employer.
#AcademicPublishing#Licensing#Piracy#PlatformCapitalism#PredatoryPublishing
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