#ScholComm is an active hashtag on Bluesky. In the last 30 days, 26 people shared 79 posts with it — around 3 a day. Activity is down 54% versus the previous week, peaking on Sep 10 with 9 posts.

Posts with #ScholComm

Eric Schares

@eschares.bsky.social

22 days ago

🚨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

Line chart showing 5 biggest publishers from 2019-2025

Eric Schares @eschares.bsky.social

🚨 Preprint! We combine our recent open dataset of #APC prices with the article counts per journal-year from #OpenAlex to estimate how much the academic community has paid in APCs over the last 5 years. A. $8.349 billion ($8.968 B in 2023 USD) $2.5B in 2023 alone. arxiv.org/abs/2407.16551 #metasci

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Eloquenti 🧪✍️📚

@eloquenti.com

over 1 year ago

🦋 A starter pack of scholarly organizations supporting #research and #science 🔬🧪🧬 🧫 🔭 #AcademicSky #Academia #AcademicChatter #Academics #AcademicWriting #AcademicPublishing #ScienceWriting #SciWri #SciencePublishing #PeerReview #SciComm #ScholComm #SciSky #MedSky #BlueSky #OpenScience #PhDSky #PhD

A starter pack of scholarly organizations supporting research and science. Suggestions for additions are welcome!

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Peter Suber

@petersuber.bsky.social

7 months ago

A review of the proceedings from four major computer-science conferences showed that none from 2021, and all from 2025, had fake citations. arxiv.org/abs/2602.058... #AI #LLMs #Hallucinations #Misconduct #ScholComm

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The Case of the Mysterious Citations

Mysterious citations are routinely appearing in peer-reviewed publications throughout the scientific community. In this paper, we developed an automated pipeline and examine the proceedings of four ma...

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Jeffrey Brainard

@jeffreybrainard.bsky.social

6 months ago

#arXiv, the granddaddy of #preprints servers, has announced it’s splitting from Cornell U., its long-time host institution. Leaders there explain why. #OpenAccess #ScholComm @science.org www.science.org/content/a….

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ArXiv, the pioneering preprint server, declares independence from Cornell

As an independent nonprofit, it hopes to raise funds to cope with exploding submissions and “AI slop”

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Sara Rouhi

@rouhiroo.bsky.social

over 1 year ago

Thanks to all you #academicsky #scholcomm legends we just hit 1000 signatories with more organizational ones on the way ✊ to @lschiff.bsky.social @alicemeadows.bsky.social @petersuber.bsky.social @camitchell.bsky.social 's leadership. SIGN/SHARE and #defendresearch docs.google.com/forms/d/e….

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Declaration To Defend Research Against U.S. Government Censorship

This Declaration is a call to action for the scholarly communication community and additional stakeholders to condemn and resist recent acts by the U.S. government to censor scholarly research. We ca...

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Lisa Schiff

@lschiff.bsky.social

over 1 year ago

I just signed this important open letter from @standupforscience.bsky.social calling out the Trump administration's latest effort to undermine our research infrastructure. Please read and sign! #DefendResearch #ScholComm #AcademicChatter #Academia www.standupforscience.net….

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Open Letter in Support of Science — STAND UP FOR SCIENCE

DrDinD.bsky.social @drdind.bsky.social

@standupforscience.bsky.social has posted an open letter for EVERYONE to sign concerning the Trump administration's attack on research www.standupforscience.net/open-letter-...

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Open Library of Humanities

@openlibhums.org

6 months ago

Infrastructure Landlords: The Rentier Capitalism of Commercial Academic Publishers This piece explores how major academic publishers are becoming “infrastructure landlords”, not just publishing research, but owning the systems around it. 👉 www.openlibhums.org/news/931/ #OpenAccess #ScholComm

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THE LONG READ Infrastructure Landlords: The Rentier Capitalism of Commercial Academic Publishers

THE LONG READ Infrastructure Landlords: The Rentier Capitalism of Commercial Academic Publishers This piece has been written by a friend of the OLH who wishes to remain anonymous. Figure. Pyramid …

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Eloquenti 🧪✍️📚

@eloquenti.com

almost 2 years ago

✨A starter pack of professional #editors providing #scientific #editing services to #researchers, #publishers, and #writers 🧪✍️📝📚 #AcademicPublishing #ScholarlyPublishing #AcademicSky #Academia #SciComm #ScholComm #OpenAccess #research #science #PhD #proofreading #amediting #grantwriting #publishing

A starter pack of academic copyeditors offering editorial services to researchers and publishers. Suggestions for additions are welcome!

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LSE Impact

@lseimpactblog.bsky.social

over 1 year ago

💥New: @tweeterbarr.bsky.social explains why academic libraries are making these decisions and what it says about the wider academic publishing sector in the UK. #HigherEducation #ScholComm #OpenAccess blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofs….

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Why are universities ending their Elsevier open access agreements?

After recent reporting that three UK universities had ended their transitional open access agreements with the publisher Elsevier, Peter Barr explains why academic libraries are making these decisi…

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Peter Suber

@petersuber.bsky.social

over 1 year ago

New study: 58% of studies #preregistered on #OSF before Nov 2017 have been conducted but not publicly shared. When asked why not, most authors cited lack of time or changing jobs "followed by null results & rejections during peer review." journals.sagepub.com/doi/…. #OpenScience #ScholComm

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Sage Journals: Discover world-class research

Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

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LSE Impact

@lseimpactblog.bsky.social

over 1 year ago

💥 New: Academic libraries cannot afford to carry on with transformative agreements 👩‍💻 @theblochian.bsky.social @ojcollective.bsky.social #AcademicSky #OpenAccess #ScholComm

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Academic libraries cannot afford to carry on with transformative agreements - Impact of Social Sciences

Caroline Edwards argues transformative agreements are unaffordable and introduces the Open Journals Collective as a model for scaling open access.

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Juan Pablo Alperin

@juancommander.scholcommlab.ca

over 1 year ago

I believe OpenAlex is exactly the kind of #openinfrastructure necessary for effective and inclusive #scholcomm. This is why I put myself forward for their Advisory Board, and now pleased to share that I've been elected as the board's Chair! Announcement here: www.linkedin.com/posts/ky….

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OurResearch: Tools to make research more open | Kyle Demes

I’m thrilled to share that Juan Pablo Alperin has been elected Chair of the OpenAlex Advisory Board! 🎉🎉🎉 Juan needs no introduction in the Open Science world: he’s faculty at Simon Fraser University...

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