Stefanie Haustein
@stefhaustein.scholcommlab.ca
Associate prof, School of Information Studies, University of Ottawa @uottawa.ca
Co-director, Scholarly Communications Lab #ScholCommLab #FirstGen
open science | bibliometrics | open access | research assessment | metascience
Co-director, Scholarly Communications Lab #ScholCommLab #FirstGen
open science | bibliometrics | open access | research assessment | metascience
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Nice way to finish the year with such a quote in @science.org news: "Stefanie Haustein, an information scientist at the University of Ottawa, doesn’t buy publishers’ arguments."
Thank you @phiejacobs.bsky.social!
doi.org/10.1126/scie...
Thank you @phiejacobs.bsky.social!
doi.org/10.1126/scie...
Reposted by Stefanie Haustein
"By far the most common misconception appearing in the RFI responses is that NIH public access policy has essentially forced researchers into a "pay-to-play" system"
Christopher Steven Marcum and Corinna Turbes on some of the misconceptions about the NIH Public Access Policy.
Christopher Steven Marcum and Corinna Turbes on some of the misconceptions about the NIH Public Access Policy.
The Cost of Confusion: Dispelling Myths about the NIH Public Access Policy and Article Processing Charges
Last July, the NIH issued an RFI on limiting direct spending on article processing charges (APCs). Over 900 public responses offered valuable perspectives but also exposed widespread misconceptions ab...
upstream.force11.org
February 4, 2026 at 2:59 PM
"By far the most common misconception appearing in the RFI responses is that NIH public access policy has essentially forced researchers into a "pay-to-play" system"
Christopher Steven Marcum and Corinna Turbes on some of the misconceptions about the NIH Public Access Policy.
Christopher Steven Marcum and Corinna Turbes on some of the misconceptions about the NIH Public Access Policy.
Reposted by Stefanie Haustein
"Relx, which is the 16th largest company in the FTSE 100 index, lost just over £6 billion from its stock market value after Anthropic launched a new AI product that can help automate work for the legal industry."
archive.ph/ya78V
archive.ph/ya78V
archive.ph
February 4, 2026 at 1:08 PM
"Relx, which is the 16th largest company in the FTSE 100 index, lost just over £6 billion from its stock market value after Anthropic launched a new AI product that can help automate work for the legal industry."
archive.ph/ya78V
archive.ph/ya78V
Reposted by Stefanie Haustein
All set for New Horizons 💎 #OpenAccess in Nijmegen! Thank you to the organisers for the opportunity to speak on the Strain, Stain, & Drain of scientific publishing.
Looking forward to great conversations on moving #ScientificPublishing forward!
bit.ly/StrainQSS
www.horizondiamond.nl#schedule
Looking forward to great conversations on moving #ScientificPublishing forward!
bit.ly/StrainQSS
www.horizondiamond.nl#schedule
![The Drain of Scientific Publishing
Fernanda Beigel, Dan Brockington, Paolo Crosetto, Gemma Derrick, Aileen Fyfe, Pablo Gomez Barreiro, Mark A. Hanson, Stefanie Haustein, Vincent Larivière, Christine Noe, Stephen Pinfield, James Wilsdon
The domination of scientific publishing in the Global North by major commercial publishers is harmful to science. We need the most powerful members of the research community, funders, governments and Universities, to lead the drive to re-communalise publishing to serve science not the market.
Comments: 1 Figure, 1 Table, 1 Supplementary Table
Subjects: Digital Libraries (cs.DL)
Cite as: arXiv:2511.04820 [cs.DL]
(or arXiv:2511.04820v2 [cs.DL] for this version)
https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2511.04820
Focus to learn more
Submission history
From: Dan Brockington [view email]
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February 2, 2026 at 11:04 PM
All set for New Horizons 💎 #OpenAccess in Nijmegen! Thank you to the organisers for the opportunity to speak on the Strain, Stain, & Drain of scientific publishing.
Looking forward to great conversations on moving #ScientificPublishing forward!
bit.ly/StrainQSS
www.horizondiamond.nl#schedule
Looking forward to great conversations on moving #ScientificPublishing forward!
bit.ly/StrainQSS
www.horizondiamond.nl#schedule
Reposted by Stefanie Haustein
OK, day off, but I wanted to share this: codeberg.org/gbilder/inst...
"Instead" is an intriguing proposal by the super-smart @gbilder.com to give AI bots a pointer to a prepackaged downloadable static version of a site.
Bear with me, as I know this sounds bad at first glance.
"Instead" is an intriguing proposal by the super-smart @gbilder.com to give AI bots a pointer to a prepackaged downloadable static version of a site.
Bear with me, as I know this sounds bad at first glance.
instead
Old draft idea for encouraging AI bots to behave when scraping open infrastructure
codeberg.org
January 29, 2026 at 11:40 AM
OK, day off, but I wanted to share this: codeberg.org/gbilder/inst...
"Instead" is an intriguing proposal by the super-smart @gbilder.com to give AI bots a pointer to a prepackaged downloadable static version of a site.
Bear with me, as I know this sounds bad at first glance.
"Instead" is an intriguing proposal by the super-smart @gbilder.com to give AI bots a pointer to a prepackaged downloadable static version of a site.
Bear with me, as I know this sounds bad at first glance.
Reposted by Stefanie Haustein
📣 Our introduction to structural causal models in science studies is now published:
doi.org/10.1162/QSS....
@tklebel.bsky.social and I tried to make our introduction as accessible as possible. We illustrate the theory by three case studies based on a simulated model of Open Science. 🧵(1/6)
doi.org/10.1162/QSS....
@tklebel.bsky.social and I tried to make our introduction as accessible as possible. We illustrate the theory by three case studies based on a simulated model of Open Science. 🧵(1/6)
January 27, 2026 at 10:24 AM
📣 Our introduction to structural causal models in science studies is now published:
doi.org/10.1162/QSS....
@tklebel.bsky.social and I tried to make our introduction as accessible as possible. We illustrate the theory by three case studies based on a simulated model of Open Science. 🧵(1/6)
doi.org/10.1162/QSS....
@tklebel.bsky.social and I tried to make our introduction as accessible as possible. We illustrate the theory by three case studies based on a simulated model of Open Science. 🧵(1/6)
Reposted by Stefanie Haustein
New resource: a practical guide to publication and cost monitoring through institutional #OpenAccess repositories.
English summary:
doi.org/10.59350/rhe...
#OpenScience
@ibi-hu.bsky.social, @humboldtuni.bsky.social
English summary:
doi.org/10.59350/rhe...
#OpenScience
@ibi-hu.bsky.social, @humboldtuni.bsky.social
January 28, 2026 at 8:32 AM
New resource: a practical guide to publication and cost monitoring through institutional #OpenAccess repositories.
English summary:
doi.org/10.59350/rhe...
#OpenScience
@ibi-hu.bsky.social, @humboldtuni.bsky.social
English summary:
doi.org/10.59350/rhe...
#OpenScience
@ibi-hu.bsky.social, @humboldtuni.bsky.social
Reposted by Stefanie Haustein
NOR US! Another three UK universities decline new Elsevier deal www.timeshighereducation.com/news/three-m... - Sheffield, Lancaster and Surrey confirm they are walking away from proposed three-year deal with world’s largest academic publisher. (paywalled sorry)
January 28, 2026 at 12:32 AM
NOR US! Another three UK universities decline new Elsevier deal www.timeshighereducation.com/news/three-m... - Sheffield, Lancaster and Surrey confirm they are walking away from proposed three-year deal with world’s largest academic publisher. (paywalled sorry)
Reposted by Stefanie Haustein
Thousands of scientists inflate their CVs with self-published studies that cost millions of dollars of public money
1 in 8 'special issues' is filled with articles written by the editor, particularly at the publisher MDPI
@manuelansede.bsky.social
english.elpais.com/science-tech...
1 in 8 'special issues' is filled with articles written by the editor, particularly at the publisher MDPI
@manuelansede.bsky.social
english.elpais.com/science-tech...
Thousands of scientists inflate their CVs with self-published studies that cost millions of dollars of public money
An analysis of 100,000 special issues of academic journals reveals that one in eight is filled with articles written by the editor, particularly at the publisher MDPI
english.elpais.com
January 25, 2026 at 7:41 PM
Thousands of scientists inflate their CVs with self-published studies that cost millions of dollars of public money
1 in 8 'special issues' is filled with articles written by the editor, particularly at the publisher MDPI
@manuelansede.bsky.social
english.elpais.com/science-tech...
1 in 8 'special issues' is filled with articles written by the editor, particularly at the publisher MDPI
@manuelansede.bsky.social
english.elpais.com/science-tech...
Reposted by Stefanie Haustein
“We have to find significant non-pay budget savings so this was the obvious place to start,”
www.timeshighereducation.com/news/three-m...
www.timeshighereducation.com/news/three-m...
Three major research universities opt out of new Elsevier deal
Complaints over ‘price increases’ and open access models spur UK institutions to walk away from offer from publishing giant, despite nationally negotiated agreement
www.timeshighereducation.com
January 22, 2026 at 7:02 AM
“We have to find significant non-pay budget savings so this was the obvious place to start,”
www.timeshighereducation.com/news/three-m...
www.timeshighereducation.com/news/three-m...
Reposted by Stefanie Haustein
Given all the news about ICE in the past few weeks, can I kindly remind you all that RELX (owners of Elsevier & LexisNexis) is "mission-critical" to ICE.
ICE pays RELX Group and Thomson Reuters millions of dollars for the personal data it needs to fuel its big data policing program […]
ICE pays RELX Group and Thomson Reuters millions of dollars for the personal data it needs to fuel its big data policing program […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
January 22, 2026 at 9:58 AM
Given all the news about ICE in the past few weeks, can I kindly remind you all that RELX (owners of Elsevier & LexisNexis) is "mission-critical" to ICE.
ICE pays RELX Group and Thomson Reuters millions of dollars for the personal data it needs to fuel its big data policing program […]
ICE pays RELX Group and Thomson Reuters millions of dollars for the personal data it needs to fuel its big data policing program […]
Reposted by Stefanie Haustein
@cometadata.bsky.social has been demonstrating it's possible to do big things! Matched over ~400K preprints 1/ ~2 MILLION authors to RORs—now in an openly available dataset. Come learn what we've been up to, what's next, and how to get involved. Next community call next week. Details below.
1.9 million author entries. 2.1 million affiliation entries. 1.75 million matched to ROR IDs.
That's what our fine-tuned open-weight model extracted from 430,000 arXiv preprints. Join us on 21 Jan to discuss the results.
📅 Register: datacite.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
That's what our fine-tuned open-weight model extracted from 430,000 arXiv preprints. Join us on 21 Jan to discuss the results.
📅 Register: datacite.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
January 16, 2026 at 5:21 PM
@cometadata.bsky.social has been demonstrating it's possible to do big things! Matched over ~400K preprints 1/ ~2 MILLION authors to RORs—now in an openly available dataset. Come learn what we've been up to, what's next, and how to get involved. Next community call next week. Details below.
Reposted by Stefanie Haustein
In Scientific #Publishing, Who Should Foot the Bill? undark.org/2026/01/07/a... (via @undark.org) #scholcomm #libraries @juancommander.scholcommlab.ca @stefhaustein.scholcommlab.ca
January 7, 2026 at 5:29 PM
In Scientific #Publishing, Who Should Foot the Bill? undark.org/2026/01/07/a... (via @undark.org) #scholcomm #libraries @juancommander.scholcommlab.ca @stefhaustein.scholcommlab.ca
Reposted by Stefanie Haustein
'And according to @eschares.bsky.social, data suggest that APCs bear almost no relation to publishing expenses. “So that tells me that APCs are not set on really what it costs to produce an article there,” he said. “It’s more prestige.”'
Undark piece on who should pay for scientific publishing.
Undark piece on who should pay for scientific publishing.
In Scientific Publishing, Who Should Foot the Bill?
Publishers often charge authors to publish their publicly-funded research. Will a federal crackdown make a difference?
undark.org
January 7, 2026 at 12:02 PM
'And according to @eschares.bsky.social, data suggest that APCs bear almost no relation to publishing expenses. “So that tells me that APCs are not set on really what it costs to produce an article there,” he said. “It’s more prestige.”'
Undark piece on who should pay for scientific publishing.
Undark piece on who should pay for scientific publishing.
Reposted by Stefanie Haustein
🧪
I ran into this in another list. The title and the abstract of this paper is quite provocative.
Table 1 with the profits of the 6 major sci publishing companies is something.
arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
I ran into this in another list. The title and the abstract of this paper is quite provocative.
Table 1 with the profits of the 6 major sci publishing companies is something.
arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
The Drain of Scientific Publishing
The domination of scientific publishing in the Global North by major commercial publishers is harmful to science. We need the most powerful members of the research community, funders, governments and ...
arxiv.org
January 4, 2026 at 7:50 PM
🧪
I ran into this in another list. The title and the abstract of this paper is quite provocative.
Table 1 with the profits of the 6 major sci publishing companies is something.
arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
I ran into this in another list. The title and the abstract of this paper is quite provocative.
Table 1 with the profits of the 6 major sci publishing companies is something.
arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
Reposted by Stefanie Haustein
Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵
Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
December 19, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵
Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
Reposted by Stefanie Haustein
(Also, icyi, here are the 42 papers citing our non-existent paper which includes a "meta-analysis" - often called the evidence "gold standard" - of "LLM effects" in education 🤮
scholar.google.com.vn/scholar?star...)
scholar.google.com.vn/scholar?star...)
scholar.google.com.vn
December 19, 2025 at 6:35 PM
(Also, icyi, here are the 42 papers citing our non-existent paper which includes a "meta-analysis" - often called the evidence "gold standard" - of "LLM effects" in education 🤮
scholar.google.com.vn/scholar?star...)
scholar.google.com.vn/scholar?star...)
Reposted by Stefanie Haustein
OpenAlex intégré au Web of Science, ou la capture du travail des “commoners” | carnetist.hypotheses.org/2572
OpenAlex intégré au Web of Science, ou la capture du travail des “commoners”
C’est une annonce qui est passée relativement inaperçue, mais qui mérite que l’on s’y arrête un instant. Clarivate a récemment annoncé l’intégration d’OpenAlex comme une nouvelle base de données au se...
carnetist.hypotheses.org
November 25, 2025 at 7:11 AM
OpenAlex intégré au Web of Science, ou la capture du travail des “commoners” | carnetist.hypotheses.org/2572
Reposted by Stefanie Haustein
"Today, the system rewards commercial publishers first, and science second. Without bold action from the funders we risk continuing to pour resources into a system that prioritizes profit over the advancement of scientific knowledge".
doi.org/10.48550/arX...
doi.org/10.48550/arX...
The Drain of Scientific Publishing
The domination of scientific publishing in the Global North by major commercial publishers is harmful to science. We need the most powerful members of the research community, funders, governments and ...
doi.org
December 11, 2025 at 12:12 PM
"Today, the system rewards commercial publishers first, and science second. Without bold action from the funders we risk continuing to pour resources into a system that prioritizes profit over the advancement of scientific knowledge".
doi.org/10.48550/arX...
doi.org/10.48550/arX...
Reposted by Stefanie Haustein
Elsevier at its best: they only embrace #openscience when it makes money and does not endanger their assets. Now that Crossref data is CC0 and used by 3rd parties (OpenAlex, Matilda,...), they just keep data in their systems @keanbirch.bsky.social #openresearchinformation @barcelonadori.bsky.social
There seems to be a decrease in the coverage of affiliation metadata in #OpenAlex, particularly with regard to journal articles published by Elsevier since 2024. Only around 6% of Elsevier articles published in 2025 have affiliation metadata.
subugoe.github.io/scholcomm_an...
subugoe.github.io/scholcomm_an...
Decreasing affiliation metadata coverage in OpenAlex – Scholarly Communication Analytics
This blog post examines the decrease in affiliation metadata coverage in OpenAlex. An analysis of over 13 million articles published by major commercial publishers between 2018 and 2025 suggests that ...
subugoe.github.io
December 16, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Elsevier at its best: they only embrace #openscience when it makes money and does not endanger their assets. Now that Crossref data is CC0 and used by 3rd parties (OpenAlex, Matilda,...), they just keep data in their systems @keanbirch.bsky.social #openresearchinformation @barcelonadori.bsky.social
Intense discussion with The Drain authors today about where to submit Part II.. And somehow @lariviev.bsky.social launched the idea of hockey jerseys?! Thanks for your service, ChatGPT. @danbrockington.bsky.social @hansonmark.bsky.social @stephenpinfield.bsky.social @aileenfyfe.bsky.social
December 16, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Intense discussion with The Drain authors today about where to submit Part II.. And somehow @lariviev.bsky.social launched the idea of hockey jerseys?! Thanks for your service, ChatGPT. @danbrockington.bsky.social @hansonmark.bsky.social @stephenpinfield.bsky.social @aileenfyfe.bsky.social
Excited to join @braccolaetitia.social.sciences.re.ap.brid.gy & team at Open Science Monitoring Inititative (OSMI) as steering board member. Looking forward to work w/ Cécile Coulibaly, Moumita Koley, @susannanykyri.bsky.social & @jeroenson.bsky.social
open-science-monitoring.org/meet-the-fiv...
open-science-monitoring.org/meet-the-fiv...
December 16, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Excited to join @braccolaetitia.social.sciences.re.ap.brid.gy & team at Open Science Monitoring Inititative (OSMI) as steering board member. Looking forward to work w/ Cécile Coulibaly, Moumita Koley, @susannanykyri.bsky.social & @jeroenson.bsky.social
open-science-monitoring.org/meet-the-fiv...
open-science-monitoring.org/meet-the-fiv...
Nice way to finish the year with such a quote in @science.org news: "Stefanie Haustein, an information scientist at the University of Ottawa, doesn’t buy publishers’ arguments."
Thank you @phiejacobs.bsky.social!
doi.org/10.1126/scie...
Thank you @phiejacobs.bsky.social!
doi.org/10.1126/scie...
December 16, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Nice way to finish the year with such a quote in @science.org news: "Stefanie Haustein, an information scientist at the University of Ottawa, doesn’t buy publishers’ arguments."
Thank you @phiejacobs.bsky.social!
doi.org/10.1126/scie...
Thank you @phiejacobs.bsky.social!
doi.org/10.1126/scie...
Reposted by Stefanie Haustein
On the 7th day before break, the OA community gave to us: Landmark research into the state of academic publishing. @hansonmark.bsky.social & team produced two papers: 'The Strain/Drain on Scientific Publishing' demonstrating the challenges we face
doi.org/10.1162/qss_...
doi.org/10.48550/arX...
doi.org/10.1162/qss_...
doi.org/10.48550/arX...
The strain on scientific publishing
Abstract. Scientists are increasingly overwhelmed by the volume of articles being published. The total number of articles indexed in Scopus and Web of Science has grown exponentially in recent years;…
doi.org
December 11, 2025 at 9:11 AM
On the 7th day before break, the OA community gave to us: Landmark research into the state of academic publishing. @hansonmark.bsky.social & team produced two papers: 'The Strain/Drain on Scientific Publishing' demonstrating the challenges we face
doi.org/10.1162/qss_...
doi.org/10.48550/arX...
doi.org/10.1162/qss_...
doi.org/10.48550/arX...
Reposted by Stefanie Haustein
We Need to Talk About the Billion-Dollar Industry Holding Science Hostage https://www.zmescience.com/science/news-science/we-need-to-talk-about-the-billion-dollar-industry-holding-science-hostage/
We Need to Talk About the Billion-Dollar Industry Holding Science Hostage
Your tax dollars fund the research. You pay again to read it.
www.zmescience.com
December 3, 2025 at 3:58 PM
We Need to Talk About the Billion-Dollar Industry Holding Science Hostage https://www.zmescience.com/science/news-science/we-need-to-talk-about-the-billion-dollar-industry-holding-science-hostage/
Reposted by Stefanie Haustein
La ciencia bajo el control de las grandes editoriales
Un estudio del ICTA-UAB liderado por @danbrockington.bsky.social revela cómo el sistema de publicación científica prioriza ganancias frente al avance del conocimiento y la integridad académica.
digitum-um.blogspot.com/2025/12/la-c...
Un estudio del ICTA-UAB liderado por @danbrockington.bsky.social revela cómo el sistema de publicación científica prioriza ganancias frente al avance del conocimiento y la integridad académica.
digitum-um.blogspot.com/2025/12/la-c...
La ciencia bajo el control de las grandes editoriales
El dominio de las publicaciones científicas en el Norte Global por parte de las grandes editoriales comerciales es perjudicial para la ciencia.
digitum-um.blogspot.com
December 3, 2025 at 1:47 PM
La ciencia bajo el control de las grandes editoriales
Un estudio del ICTA-UAB liderado por @danbrockington.bsky.social revela cómo el sistema de publicación científica prioriza ganancias frente al avance del conocimiento y la integridad académica.
digitum-um.blogspot.com/2025/12/la-c...
Un estudio del ICTA-UAB liderado por @danbrockington.bsky.social revela cómo el sistema de publicación científica prioriza ganancias frente al avance del conocimiento y la integridad académica.
digitum-um.blogspot.com/2025/12/la-c...