Darrell Gunter makes a very interesting case for "compute-ready documents".
https://www.researchinformation.info/analysis-opinion/scholarly-publishings-great-leap/

Some Google searching suggests that other people call these objects "semantic twins".

Some of my questions:
* Do you know any researchers creating or crunching them?
* Do you know any publishers publishing them?
* Do you know any repositories collecting them?
* Do you know any search engines indexing them?
* Do you know any AI tools building on them?
* Do you know any promotion and tenure committees giving career credit for them?
* Do you know any debates about their strengths and weaknesses for research?

#AI #CRDs #Genres #ScholComm

Update. "Beginning February 11, 2026, #arXiv will require that all submissions have a full English-language version, either as the original language or as an included translation."
https://blog.arxiv.org/2025/11/21/upcoming-policy-change-to-non-english-language-paper-submissions/

Coverage of the new policy in Nature.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00229-0

#Multilingualism #MultilingualResearch #ScholComm

Update. "For the 1990–2023 period, we find that only Indonesian, Portuguese, and Spanish have expanded at a faster pace than English [in academic publishing]… Social sciences and humanities are the least English-dominated fields… Policies recognizing the value of both national-language and English-language publications have had a concrete impact on the distribution of languages in the global field of scholarly communication."
https://asistdl.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/asi.70055

#Multilingualism #MultilingualResearch #ScholComm

This CNI briefing shares a 2025 Year in Review update on the #OA Book Usage Data Trust and the Scholarly Communications Trusted Dataspace. Learn about the dataspace building blocks and an overview of how key stakeholders built and piloted a dataspace and its affiliated "participant rulebook" to simplify distributed, multi-party data computation. https://youtu.be/UYTHFsjWOTw?si=VB0O28IpbZi3YXlD #ScholComm #DataSpace

I really respect those math faculty who didn’t even bother customizing Digital Commons; they just dove in and immediately started publishing papers

#scholcomm

I wasn't expecting a story of science malpractice in The New Yorker. This one is dark.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/02/02/did-a-celebrated-researcher-obscure-a-fatal-poisoning

(Notice how The Lancet made things worse by asking to shorten the original manuscript. If the initial version had been published as preprint, much time could have been saved.)

#scholcomm

Hi #MedMastodon #OpenAccess #PublicAccess #ScholComm folks
What's up with the VA's implementation of the 2022 OSTP memo?
SPARC still lists it as lacking an updated publication and data sharing requrement policy.

The punchline of this research is in the paper's title. You might think authors would be alive to this?! 😬

"Our analysis reveals that nearly 300 papers contain at least one HalluCitation [...] Notably, half of these papers were identified at EMNLP 2025, the most recent conference, indicating that this issue is rapidly increasing..."

HalluCitation Matters: Revealing the Impact of #Hallucinated #References with 300 Hallucinated Papers in ACL Conferences https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2601.18724 #GenAI #scholcomm

From #FritzHolznagel: "When science discourages correction: How publishers profit from mistakes."
https://theconversation.com/when-science-discourages-correction-how-publishers-profit-from-mistakes-272657

Journals are slow to publish corrections -- slow as in years, even decades, allowing uncorrected articles to rack up citations. Corrections often appear behind paywalls, and conversely, paywalls make errors harder to detect.

"Science advances not by being right, but by discovering where it’s wrong – and fixing it. Systematic reform must reframe prompt correction as a hallmark of integrity, not a badge of failure…If publishers can profit from paywalled errors, they can afford open corrections…Journals should make corrections visible, prestigious, and citable, and expand #DiamondOA models. Wider access means more scrutiny and faster fixes."

#ScholComm

Update. "By analyzing all articles indexed in the PubMed database (>36.5 million articles published in >36,000 biomedical and life sciences journals), we show that the median amount of time spent under review is 7.4%–14.6% longer for female-authored articles than for male-authored articles."
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3003574

#Gender #GenderBias #ScholComm

Hi #medlibs and #scholcomm people

Any idea whether this language on the website of a medical society that publishes some hybrid journals means that they allow green (no APC) compliance with the 2024 NIH public access policy?

1/ I'm seeking expressions of interest from nonprofit orgs to take over the Open Access Tracking Project ( #OATP, @oatp@fediscience.org ) and the open-source software on which it runs. Details in this Google doc: bit.ly/TransferOATP #OpenAccess #OpenScience #OpenSource #ScholComm 🧵

1/ I'm seeking expressions of interest from nonprofit organizations to take over the Open Access Tracking Project (#OATP, @oatp) and the open-source software (#TagTeam) on which it runs.

Details in this Google doc:
https://bit.ly/TransferOATP

Contact me <peter.suber@gmail.com> if you have any questions or any level of interest.

#OpenAccess #OpenScience #OpenSource #ScholComm

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Update. A letter to the editor about a study I posted to this thread 11/23/25: "The suggestion that [the lower #retraction rate for women] is because male researchers undergo more scrutiny, propose bolder ideas and lead larger and more dynamic teams than do female researchers implies that male scientists are better at science. As female scientists, our lived experience points to alternative explanations: elevated rigour and scientific integrity by female scientists or more critical peer review of female-led manuscripts."
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00120-y
(#paywalled)

#Gender #GenderBias #ScholComm

I got a response letter and I have to say, I'm reviewer number 2

#ScholComm #PeerReview

Hi #scholcomm + #publishing people
Anyone know how much material in PubMed is available via green OA *in repositories whose links don't show up in PubMed*?

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#Libraries #ScholComm

TIL that Alexander McMillan subsidized 𝘕𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦 for 30 years until it began to make a profit. www.asimov.press/p/nature #ScholComm

How Nature Became a 'Prestige'...

TIL that Alexander McMillan subsidized 𝘕𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦 for 30 years until it began to make a profit.
https://www.asimov.press/p/nature

#ScholComm