Our @tibosl colleague @Maryna_Nazarovets and her coauthors @mikaellaakso and @zehrataskin
published a nice comprehesive overview of their research on niversity journal publishers – in the LSE Impact blog.

https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2026/02/05/university-journal-publishers-global-messy-and-underestimated/

The original article:
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-025-05535-4

#scholarlyCommunication #scholarlyPublishing

One week to go: Join us for the 8th European Rights Retention Community of
Practice meeting, KR21Programme
On 18 February (13:30h CET), we welcome:
* Susanna Nykyri, Tampere University
* Marc Lange, Helmholtz Open Science Office
Register now 👉 https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/TACrdWbKSSCcKxWsP2vVlg
[https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/TACrdWbKSSCcKxWsP2vVlg]

I'm very deliberate in saying "items published" rather than articles published fwiw.

Subscribe to Open covers the cost of corrigenda, errata, editorials, obituaries, front matter, back matter etc... I see that as a strength of the model, not a weakness and so I include these items in my count, rather than excluding them.

Who's gonna pay an APC to publish an obituary?

Some simple spreadsheet research using @OpenAlex and the R package openalexR

Counting from 2020 to 2025, there have been over 58,000 items published under the Subscribe to Open model and it's roughly doubling every year.

#S2O #SubscribeToOpen

excited to attend FOI Fest 2026 next Thursday. Details here:
https://www.mysociety.org/transparency/foi-network/foi-fest-2026/

#FreedomOfInformation #FOI

If you, a systems, erm or ux #librarian, hate the way the AI/LLM Reading Assistant in #ScienceDirect does a dark pattern & pops up to cover the actual damn thing you are trying to read, you can email #Elsevier support & ask them to disable it for your institution. It may take a while, but given them they did it for me, they’ll probably do it for you. #LibraryLife #libraries

It was a distinct pleasure to welcome @jwyg to our headquarters in Amsterdam for his book talk on his newly released book "Public Data Cultures". Thank you to everyone who came, listened intently, asked intelligent questions, bought his book and created a wonderful community event on Monday.

Check our his book to buy your own copy and check out our events listings for future events. We hope to welcome you soon.

First Monday will cease publication, after 30 years, with the May 2026 issue
https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/announcement/view/99

It's a great journal and a critical archive of the history of the web.

"Knowledge is a public good. And it must be treated as such."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PygUK16aQgk #ted #tedxpsu #openaccess

Texas can’t build a premier workforce without foreign researchers https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/columns/editors-note/2026/02/05/texas-cant-build-premier-workforce-without-foreign

[blog] Paleontology R Packages to Benefit from Software Sustainability Institute Grant 🎉 🦴

Palaeoverse is a grassroots organization that develops R packages for paleontology (The Palaeoverse toolkit). 🐊🦕🌿🪸🦑

Will Gearty and The Palaeoverse Team are excited to announce funding from the Software Sustainability Institute and share plans for the future of Palaeoverse!

https://ropensci.org/blog/2026/02/05/palaeoverse-ssi-grant/

#RStats
@rstats@a.gup.pe

At eLife, we have always prioritised high-quality, constructive reviews.

Today, peer review is part of the paper. Reviews are published as soon as they're in, rejection doesn’t follow review, and the focus stays on strengthening the science in a way that works for authors.

After four months, the journal has not found a single reviewer for my PhD student's manuscript. The academic peer review system is broken. I think we all should: 1. Review three papers for every one that we submit. 2. Promptly declined to review a paper when the request arrives. #AcademicChatter

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:77lswp42lgjyw36ozuo7kt7e/post/3mcgaao464s2u

100+ people attending the event _could_ benefit from having live discussion about what the speakers are saying but UKSG has decided against this. Oh joy.

The UKSG webinar I'm attending right now is deliberately NOT turning on the chat function for attendees, thus stifling discussion and debate. Not a fan.

I have mentioned this to UKSG staff running the event and this is the response: "Thank you for the feedback. For this one-hour session, we’ll be following a structured format, so the chat will not be enabled. We appreciate the perspective and will certainly keep this in mind for future sessions." 🙃

The core of my frustration with #OpenScience practices:

We cannot have a true Open Science until we dispel the myth that papers contain usable descriptions of scientific processes.

This cannot happen until researchers are trained, using evidence-based pedagogy, to read scientific articles for USE, not citation, not argument support, but USE!!!

In my seminars, all learners leave convinced we need a documentation system grounded in usability, & that papers are NOT fit for purpose. >>

@richlitt @dvdgc13 I know you both and am finding this very funny (from afar) 😂

Innovation in scientific publishing and its implications for Crossref DOI registration practices - MetaROR’s approach

https://doi.org/10.64000/vfezq-pea87

Together with @andrebrasil I just published this blog post about @crossref DOI registration practices for @MetaROR.

While our focus is on the MetaROR platform operated by @RoRInstitute and @aimos, the issues we discuss are of relevance for Publish-Review-Curate infrastructures more in general.

@cwts @ASAPbio

@danstowell @PCI_StatML i'm also a big fan of the Peer Community In's fwiw.

I'm a 'Recommender' for PCI Registered Reports.

Grassroots, diamond, what's not to like?

Corinna Turbes and I discuss comments submitted to the NIH Office of Science Policy Request for Information on Article Processing Charges from the lens of dispelling myths about public access at The National Institutes of Health in Upstream by FORCE11:

https://doi.org/10.54900/6m4xn-y3m49