Samuel Moore
@samuelmoore.org
Researcher at Cambridge University Library / Cambridge Digital Humanities
PI: @morphss.bsky.social
New book: Publishing Beyond the Market https://press.umich.edu/Books/P/Publishing-Beyond-the-Market
https://www.samuelmoore.org
PI: @morphss.bsky.social
New book: Publishing Beyond the Market https://press.umich.edu/Books/P/Publishing-Beyond-the-Market
https://www.samuelmoore.org
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Samuel Moore
@samuelmoore.org
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You can now download the book on the publisher's website: press.umich.edu/Books/P/Publ... (open access of course)
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Very much enjoyed @samuelmoore.org's book 'Publishing Beyond the Market'. doi.org/10.3998/mpub...
Somewhat naively I was hoping Sam would present grand plan for fixing scholarly publishing, but instead Sam makes the interesting point that the idea we need such a plan is itself part of the problem!
Somewhat naively I was hoping Sam would present grand plan for fixing scholarly publishing, but instead Sam makes the interesting point that the idea we need such a plan is itself part of the problem!
Publishing Beyond the Market: Open Access, Care, and the Commons
<I>Publishing Beyond the Market</I> argues that the move to open access should focus less on the free accessibility of research outputs and more on who controls the publications and infrastructures fo...
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December 25, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Very much enjoyed @samuelmoore.org's book 'Publishing Beyond the Market'. doi.org/10.3998/mpub...
Somewhat naively I was hoping Sam would present grand plan for fixing scholarly publishing, but instead Sam makes the interesting point that the idea we need such a plan is itself part of the problem!
Somewhat naively I was hoping Sam would present grand plan for fixing scholarly publishing, but instead Sam makes the interesting point that the idea we need such a plan is itself part of the problem!
Still time to download and email this to your loved ones for Christmas.
Finally, now, can sit down for some catch-up reading and I'm turning to @samuelmoore.org's recent "Publishing Beyond the Market". I'm a few pages in and he's cited just about the best bit in my book, so it's looking promising 😂 Seriously, though, looking forward to this.
December 24, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Still time to download and email this to your loved ones for Christmas.
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With the main Swiss funder limiting the amount that can be spent on APCs, publishers know that Swiss institutions are under more pressure to sign transformative agreements and so are in a weaker negotiating position.
Today the Swiss announced they don't have an agreement with Springer Nature -- swissuniversity tried to secure a deal and failed in the face of the extreme rise in publishing fees.
When the game is rigged, it's better to stop playing.
🧵 to understand the drain of scientific publishing👇
When the game is rigged, it's better to stop playing.
🧵 to understand the drain of scientific publishing👇
December 23, 2025 at 12:05 AM
With the main Swiss funder limiting the amount that can be spent on APCs, publishers know that Swiss institutions are under more pressure to sign transformative agreements and so are in a weaker negotiating position.
With the main Swiss funder limiting the amount that can be spent on APCs, publishers know that Swiss institutions are under more pressure to sign transformative agreements and so are in a weaker negotiating position.
Today the Swiss announced they don't have an agreement with Springer Nature -- swissuniversity tried to secure a deal and failed in the face of the extreme rise in publishing fees.
When the game is rigged, it's better to stop playing.
🧵 to understand the drain of scientific publishing👇
When the game is rigged, it's better to stop playing.
🧵 to understand the drain of scientific publishing👇
December 23, 2025 at 12:05 AM
With the main Swiss funder limiting the amount that can be spent on APCs, publishers know that Swiss institutions are under more pressure to sign transformative agreements and so are in a weaker negotiating position.
'The “big five” academic publishers have all reached agreements with UK universities, with a trial that will remove fees on a per article basis from certain journals being hailed as a “global first”.'
UK publishing deals with ‘big five’ hailed as ‘key milestone’
‘Global first’ agreements break link between pricing and the number of articles published for the first time
www.timeshighereducation.com
December 22, 2025 at 7:22 PM
'The “big five” academic publishers have all reached agreements with UK universities, with a trial that will remove fees on a per article basis from certain journals being hailed as a “global first”.'
New measure of academic impact just dropped: number of citations received to papers that chatgpt created and fraudulently attributed to you.
These are all the 42 papers Google Scholar has found citing "our" paper that we never wrote - who knows how much actual human touch went into them? scholar.google.com.vn/scholar?star...
scholar.google.com.vn
December 19, 2025 at 7:19 PM
New measure of academic impact just dropped: number of citations received to papers that chatgpt created and fraudulently attributed to you.
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Wrote about books for the Year in Review for Art Review @artreview.bsky.social
On corporate publishing, small presses & the many excellent books that were published in this otherwise cursed year 2025
artreview.com/shitty-cakes...
On corporate publishing, small presses & the many excellent books that were published in this otherwise cursed year 2025
artreview.com/shitty-cakes...
Shitty Cakes, Endless Crime
The year in reading: In 2025, small presses in the UK stood up against a dominant culture of dumbing down and selling out
artreview.com
December 19, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Wrote about books for the Year in Review for Art Review @artreview.bsky.social
On corporate publishing, small presses & the many excellent books that were published in this otherwise cursed year 2025
artreview.com/shitty-cakes...
On corporate publishing, small presses & the many excellent books that were published in this otherwise cursed year 2025
artreview.com/shitty-cakes...
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So sad to learn of death of Paul Ayris - a passionate, enthusiastic, encouraging and supportive advocate for #OpenAccess. The force behind the establishment of #UCLPress and the OAI Conferences, and of #OA policies at individual HEI and national funder level. RIP Paul.
www.leru.org/news/in-memo...
www.leru.org/news/in-memo...
Dr Paul Ayris | LERU
Dr Paul Ayris LERU UCL Open Science
www.leru.org
December 18, 2025 at 3:58 PM
So sad to learn of death of Paul Ayris - a passionate, enthusiastic, encouraging and supportive advocate for #OpenAccess. The force behind the establishment of #UCLPress and the OAI Conferences, and of #OA policies at individual HEI and national funder level. RIP Paul.
www.leru.org/news/in-memo...
www.leru.org/news/in-memo...
“If patterns this strong appear in the public record, one can only imagine what remains hidden behind closed doors,”
retractionwatch.com/2025/12/17/b...
retractionwatch.com/2025/12/17/b...
‘Elite cohort’ of biz school scholars and editors scratch each others’ backs, study finds
Image: Mohamed Hassan/Pixabay Academics who publish frequently in two top business journals often have prior working relationships with the editors who handle their papers, according to a new analy…
retractionwatch.com
December 18, 2025 at 2:40 PM
“If patterns this strong appear in the public record, one can only imagine what remains hidden behind closed doors,”
retractionwatch.com/2025/12/17/b...
retractionwatch.com/2025/12/17/b...
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Samuel A. Moore, Publishing Beyond the Market: Open Access, Care, and the Commons – University of Michigan Press @uofmpress.bsky.social, September 2025
press.umich.edu/Books/P/Publ...
@newbooksnetwork.bsky.social discussion with Stephen Pinfield
newbooksnetwork.com/publishing-b...
press.umich.edu/Books/P/Publ...
@newbooksnetwork.bsky.social discussion with Stephen Pinfield
newbooksnetwork.com/publishing-b...
Publishing Beyond the Market
Publishing Beyond the Market argues that the move to open access should focus less on the free accessibility of research outputs and more on who controls the publications and infrastructures for schol...
press.umich.edu
December 16, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Samuel A. Moore, Publishing Beyond the Market: Open Access, Care, and the Commons – University of Michigan Press @uofmpress.bsky.social, September 2025
press.umich.edu/Books/P/Publ...
@newbooksnetwork.bsky.social discussion with Stephen Pinfield
newbooksnetwork.com/publishing-b...
press.umich.edu/Books/P/Publ...
@newbooksnetwork.bsky.social discussion with Stephen Pinfield
newbooksnetwork.com/publishing-b...
"Ask AI to summarize long sections, clarify jargon, or outline the structure. Always verify summaries against the original."
Frontiers guidance on AI in peer review for ECRs optimistically expects them to "verify summaries" of things they couldn't be bothered to read it in the first place.
Frontiers guidance on AI in peer review for ECRs optimistically expects them to "verify summaries" of things they couldn't be bothered to read it in the first place.
AI in peer review: what early-career researchers should know (and how to use it wisely)
For early-career researchers, AI has become part of everyday work, whether in drafting manuscripts, organizing ideas, or exploring literature. A survey of 1,645
www.frontiersin.org
December 17, 2025 at 8:15 AM
"Ask AI to summarize long sections, clarify jargon, or outline the structure. Always verify summaries against the original."
Frontiers guidance on AI in peer review for ECRs optimistically expects them to "verify summaries" of things they couldn't be bothered to read it in the first place.
Frontiers guidance on AI in peer review for ECRs optimistically expects them to "verify summaries" of things they couldn't be bothered to read it in the first place.
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find it remarkable that folks upload the unpublished, confidential work of others to those sites.
December 16, 2025 at 3:46 PM
find it remarkable that folks upload the unpublished, confidential work of others to those sites.
It's very good on open science and research culture reform too.
December 16, 2025 at 1:24 PM
It's very good on open science and research culture reform too.
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So much for innovation by pharma… another case of market failure
"The biggest mosquito-borne disease in the world has a cure. There’s just one problem. No one wants to make it."
#Dengue #mosnodenvir
www.vox.com/future-perfe...
#Dengue #mosnodenvir
www.vox.com/future-perfe...
The biggest mosquito-borne disease in the world has a cure. There’s just one problem.
No one wants to make it.
www.vox.com
December 16, 2025 at 6:33 AM
So much for innovation by pharma… another case of market failure
Great role advertised at Oxford: Research Metrics and Open Infrastructure Lead
my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
Job Details
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December 15, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Great role advertised at Oxford: Research Metrics and Open Infrastructure Lead
my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
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On the 5th day before break the OA community gave to us: the launch of the @morphss.bsky.social project!
MORPHSS is working to push forward open research in the humanities and social sciences by understanding the unique needs of that community, and we can't wait to see what they accomplish!
MORPHSS is working to push forward open research in the humanities and social sciences by understanding the unique needs of that community, and we can't wait to see what they accomplish!
December 15, 2025 at 9:24 AM
On the 5th day before break the OA community gave to us: the launch of the @morphss.bsky.social project!
MORPHSS is working to push forward open research in the humanities and social sciences by understanding the unique needs of that community, and we can't wait to see what they accomplish!
MORPHSS is working to push forward open research in the humanities and social sciences by understanding the unique needs of that community, and we can't wait to see what they accomplish!
Another AI-fabricated book from Top Quality academic publisher Spring Nature.
Publisher under fire after ‘fake’ citations found in AI ethics guide
A book published by Springer Nature includes dozens of questionable citations, including references to journals that do not exist
www.thetimes.com
December 15, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Another AI-fabricated book from Top Quality academic publisher Spring Nature.
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We are excited to announce the publication of our JEP 30th Anniversary Special Issue, comprising reflections from our editorial board and edited by Alyssa Arbuckle @alyssaarbuckle.bsky.social and Janneke Adema! journals.publishing.umich.edu/jep/issue/43... [1/5]
December 9, 2025 at 4:00 PM
We are excited to announce the publication of our JEP 30th Anniversary Special Issue, comprising reflections from our editorial board and edited by Alyssa Arbuckle @alyssaarbuckle.bsky.social and Janneke Adema! journals.publishing.umich.edu/jep/issue/43... [1/5]
I *really* enjoyed this event, particularly seeing all the differences between the publishing projects presented. It's good to move beyond the naive idea that preprints will simply fix everything and towards real experimentation with how alternative models work in practice.
Very much enjoyed last week's meeting in Cambridge about the Publish-Review-Curate (PRC) model for scholarly publishing. There were lots of highly inspiring discussions, including an important discussion about strengthening coordination between initiatives in this area.
asapbio.org/reimagining-...
asapbio.org/reimagining-...
Reimagining Scholarly Publishing: Outcomes From A Public Forum To Discuss The Publish, Review, Curate (PRC) Publishing Model – ASAPbio
At a meeting held on the 3rd December 2025 at Kings College, Cambridge over 50 delegates, comprising researchers, publishers, librarians, research funders and
asapbio.org
December 13, 2025 at 9:34 AM
I *really* enjoyed this event, particularly seeing all the differences between the publishing projects presented. It's good to move beyond the naive idea that preprints will simply fix everything and towards real experimentation with how alternative models work in practice.
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To anyone who may have been present at my talk today in which I intimated that you can just, you know, do this: you can just, you know, do this.
December 11, 2025 at 11:58 PM
To anyone who may have been present at my talk today in which I intimated that you can just, you know, do this: you can just, you know, do this.
REF portability for books but there aren't any book-based disciplines left sorry.
December 13, 2025 at 8:08 AM
REF portability for books but there aren't any book-based disciplines left sorry.
Thanks @stephenpinfield.bsky.social for interviewing me about my book for the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcast.
newbooksnetwork.com/publishing-b...
newbooksnetwork.com/publishing-b...
Samuel Moore, "Publishing Beyond the Market: Open Access, Care, and the Commons" (U Michigan Press, 2025) - New Books Network
newbooksnetwork.com
December 12, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Thanks @stephenpinfield.bsky.social for interviewing me about my book for the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcast.
newbooksnetwork.com/publishing-b...
newbooksnetwork.com/publishing-b...
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Just out: Four major publishers agree deals with UK university sector after long-running talks. Elsevier, Springer Nature, Taylor & Francis and Wiley have met "sector-agreed thresholds for acceptance", says Jisc.
Via @robinbisson.bsky.social
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-o...
Via @robinbisson.bsky.social
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-o...
Four major publishers agree deals with UK university sector - Research Professional News
Elsevier, Springer Nature, Taylor & Francis and Wiley meet “sector-agreed thresholds” in long-running talks
www.researchprofessionalnews.com
December 12, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Just out: Four major publishers agree deals with UK university sector after long-running talks. Elsevier, Springer Nature, Taylor & Francis and Wiley have met "sector-agreed thresholds for acceptance", says Jisc.
Via @robinbisson.bsky.social
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-o...
Via @robinbisson.bsky.social
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-o...