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
What an amazing little experiment! Highly recommend reading this post #OAWeek #AcademicSky
October 24, 2025 at 12:22 AM
What an amazing little experiment! Highly recommend reading this post #OAWeek #AcademicSky
Love this! Particularly this quote (see screenshot) which aligns quite a bit with a blog post I wrote last week: www.uottawa.ca/research-inn...
To be fair, I did only suggest 13 manageable changes easily implementable in the current “prison” but I’m not at all against burning it all down either 🔥🔥🔥
To be fair, I did only suggest 13 manageable changes easily implementable in the current “prison” but I’m not at all against burning it all down either 🔥🔥🔥
October 24, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Love this! Particularly this quote (see screenshot) which aligns quite a bit with a blog post I wrote last week: www.uottawa.ca/research-inn...
To be fair, I did only suggest 13 manageable changes easily implementable in the current “prison” but I’m not at all against burning it all down either 🔥🔥🔥
To be fair, I did only suggest 13 manageable changes easily implementable in the current “prison” but I’m not at all against burning it all down either 🔥🔥🔥
Slides for my #OAWeek talk @uottawabiblio.bsky.social @uottawa.ca today:
“Who owns our knowledge? A data feminist perspective on closed research infrastructure”
doi.org/10.5281/zeno... #ScholCommLab #openaccess #AcademicSky #datafeminism
“Who owns our knowledge? A data feminist perspective on closed research infrastructure”
doi.org/10.5281/zeno... #ScholCommLab #openaccess #AcademicSky #datafeminism
October 23, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Slides for my #OAWeek talk @uottawabiblio.bsky.social @uottawa.ca today:
“Who owns our knowledge? A data feminist perspective on closed research infrastructure”
doi.org/10.5281/zeno... #ScholCommLab #openaccess #AcademicSky #datafeminism
“Who owns our knowledge? A data feminist perspective on closed research infrastructure”
doi.org/10.5281/zeno... #ScholCommLab #openaccess #AcademicSky #datafeminism
Multitasking during #OAWeek: the pleasure of listening to this while putting the finishing touches on my own slides at @uottawabiblio.bsky.social
October 23, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Multitasking during #OAWeek: the pleasure of listening to this while putting the finishing touches on my own slides at @uottawabiblio.bsky.social
Quelle meilleure occasion que la #SemaineDuLibreAccès pour partager 13 actions concrètes vers une édition scientifique plus équitable et pérenne ? Des prépublications aux revues diamant, jusqu’au refus d’évaluer pour des éditeurs exploitants : chaque petit geste compte quand on agit collectivement.
October 22, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Quelle meilleure occasion que la #SemaineDuLibreAccès pour partager 13 actions concrètes vers une édition scientifique plus équitable et pérenne ? Des prépublications aux revues diamant, jusqu’au refus d’évaluer pour des éditeurs exploitants : chaque petit geste compte quand on agit collectivement.
What better time than #OAWeek to share 13 actions researchers can take for fairer, more sustainable publishing? From posting preprints to supporting diamond journals to refusing to review for exploitative publishers: each small action matters when we act collectively.
October 22, 2025 at 7:57 PM
What better time than #OAWeek to share 13 actions researchers can take for fairer, more sustainable publishing? From posting preprints to supporting diamond journals to refusing to review for exploitative publishers: each small action matters when we act collectively.
October 10, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Watching Kelly Cobey (@heartinstitute.bsky.social) and @lariviev.bsky.social during their expert hearing at Meeting No. 2 of the House of Commons Standing Committee on Science and Research (SRSR) right now. Too bad ParlVu is very shaky on my end..
September 15, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Watching Kelly Cobey (@heartinstitute.bsky.social) and @lariviev.bsky.social during their expert hearing at Meeting No. 2 of the House of Commons Standing Committee on Science and Research (SRSR) right now. Too bad ParlVu is very shaky on my end..
If you already read the #ScholCommLab blog last week, here's what's new in @lseimpactblog.bsky.social post:
We added layer of analysis for how NIH cap on APCs would affect large publishers. In raw dollars, the what NIH director calls "duopoly" Elsevier and Springer Nature would be affected most.
We added layer of analysis for how NIH cap on APCs would affect large publishers. In raw dollars, the what NIH director calls "duopoly" Elsevier and Springer Nature would be affected most.
September 11, 2025 at 5:02 PM
If you already read the #ScholCommLab blog last week, here's what's new in @lseimpactblog.bsky.social post:
We added layer of analysis for how NIH cap on APCs would affect large publishers. In raw dollars, the what NIH director calls "duopoly" Elsevier and Springer Nature would be affected most.
We added layer of analysis for how NIH cap on APCs would affect large publishers. In raw dollars, the what NIH director calls "duopoly" Elsevier and Springer Nature would be affected most.
Really sad to say goodbye to Doro Strecker @ibi-hu.bsky.social @humboldtuni.bsky.social who’s been visiting the #ScholCommLab @uottawa.ca for the last 6 weeks w/ help of a @berlinualliance.bsky.social scholarship. At least we had amazing weather today to enjoy a proper “vierte Mahlzeit” outside ☕️🍰
September 10, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Really sad to say goodbye to Doro Strecker @ibi-hu.bsky.social @humboldtuni.bsky.social who’s been visiting the #ScholCommLab @uottawa.ca for the last 6 weeks w/ help of a @berlinualliance.bsky.social scholarship. At least we had amazing weather today to enjoy a proper “vierte Mahlzeit” outside ☕️🍰
Not sure I get your question, but sounds like the figure you’re looking for is this one:
September 4, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Not sure I get your question, but sounds like the figure you’re looking for is this one:
We also find (again & again) that despite fully financed through subscriptions, APCs of hybrid journals exceed those of gold - clear disconnect between author fees and journal production cost 📖💸
📊Distribution of 2,228 journals across APC brackets: majority above $3K w/ hybrid fees higher than gold
📊Distribution of 2,228 journals across APC brackets: majority above $3K w/ hybrid fees higher than gold
September 4, 2025 at 1:47 PM
We also find (again & again) that despite fully financed through subscriptions, APCs of hybrid journals exceed those of gold - clear disconnect between author fees and journal production cost 📖💸
📊Distribution of 2,228 journals across APC brackets: majority above $3K w/ hybrid fees higher than gold
📊Distribution of 2,228 journals across APC brackets: majority above $3K w/ hybrid fees higher than gold
Our analysis of 2,2228 journals in which NIH-funded authors published in 2025 shows that there’s a huge gap between NIH’s proposed caps and the much higher APCs that publishers charge.
📊Top 20 journals where NIH-funded authors published 01-07/2025: most exceed the $2k and $3k caps, some the $6k.
📊Top 20 journals where NIH-funded authors published 01-07/2025: most exceed the $2k and $3k caps, some the $6k.
September 4, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Our analysis of 2,2228 journals in which NIH-funded authors published in 2025 shows that there’s a huge gap between NIH’s proposed caps and the much higher APCs that publishers charge.
📊Top 20 journals where NIH-funded authors published 01-07/2025: most exceed the $2k and $3k caps, some the $6k.
📊Top 20 journals where NIH-funded authors published 01-07/2025: most exceed the $2k and $3k caps, some the $6k.
Success! No tears and three (!!) thumbs up from him 🥳 Plus he looooved the Schultüte 😍
August 28, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Success! No tears and three (!!) thumbs up from him 🥳 Plus he looooved the Schultüte 😍
That’s him with the dinosaur backpack (obviously) and his best bud from daycare who started school last year. What a courageous kid, starting school in French, when all he knows is “Ça c’est peut pas” because of Patate à vélo by Emilie Gravel 🥔🚲
August 28, 2025 at 4:02 PM
That’s him with the dinosaur backpack (obviously) and his best bud from daycare who started school last year. What a courageous kid, starting school in French, when all he knows is “Ça c’est peut pas” because of Patate à vélo by Emilie Gravel 🥔🚲
Can’t believe my kid is starting school tomorrow! Spent my last few evenings keeping a 200yo German tradition alive: making a “Schultüte”. FYI, it’s not just a random dinosaur, it’s an Albertosaurus, as requested. 🦖🌋
35 years ago my mom made me a giant pink pencil. ✏️
35 years ago my mom made me a giant pink pencil. ✏️
August 28, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Can’t believe my kid is starting school tomorrow! Spent my last few evenings keeping a 200yo German tradition alive: making a “Schultüte”. FYI, it’s not just a random dinosaur, it’s an Albertosaurus, as requested. 🦖🌋
35 years ago my mom made me a giant pink pencil. ✏️
35 years ago my mom made me a giant pink pencil. ✏️
So I think using 35-40 quantums per article would make sense. That gets us to Tier 2 with the ApJ: $3,162 🎉 Who said APCs couldn't be fun?
August 27, 2025 at 3:37 PM
So I think using 35-40 quantums per article would make sense. That gets us to Tier 2 with the ApJ: $3,162 🎉 Who said APCs couldn't be fun?
This paper also has a page with 4 figures and very little text. Each figure is 1 quantum, so with 10 pages that would be 40 quantums and a little bit.
August 27, 2025 at 3:37 PM
This paper also has a page with 4 figures and very little text. Each figure is 1 quantum, so with 10 pages that would be 40 quantums and a little bit.
So let's just take a random paper in the journal and count the number of words on a random page with text only: I get 1,208 words for this page. That would be 3.45 quantas or 34.5 quantas for a 10 page article.
August 27, 2025 at 3:37 PM
So let's just take a random paper in the journal and count the number of words on a random page with text only: I get 1,208 words for this page. That would be 3.45 quantas or 34.5 quantas for a 10 page article.
I've seen a fare share of APC and page charge pages by now, but this was a new level of complexity: The Astrophysical Journal calculates APCs by per "quanta" charge: journals.aas.org/article-char...
August 27, 2025 at 3:37 PM
I've seen a fare share of APC and page charge pages by now, but this was a new level of complexity: The Astrophysical Journal calculates APCs by per "quanta" charge: journals.aas.org/article-char...
Btw, readers of our newsletter already heard about this last week. If you want to stay up to date on all things #ScholCommLab, please consider subscribing: www.scholcommlab.ca/stay-up-to-d...
August 12, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Btw, readers of our newsletter already heard about this last week. If you want to stay up to date on all things #ScholCommLab, please consider subscribing: www.scholcommlab.ca/stay-up-to-d...
Also agree w/ @chrismarcum.bsky.social that publishers might just go the "MDPI model" & publish more papers at lower APCs to make up for lost revenue. If we have learned something from the past decades of academic publishing, it's that publishers will always find a way to make money..
August 6, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Also agree w/ @chrismarcum.bsky.social that publishers might just go the "MDPI model" & publish more papers at lower APCs to make up for lost revenue. If we have learned something from the past decades of academic publishing, it's that publishers will always find a way to make money..
I particularly liked what @hjoseph.bsky.social had to say about lack of diamond options in the NIH's Request for Information (to which you can still submit by 15 September: grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...)
August 6, 2025 at 2:54 PM
I particularly liked what @hjoseph.bsky.social had to say about lack of diamond options in the NIH's Request for Information (to which you can still submit by 15 September: grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...)
Of the 199 journals, as little as 7% of journals/5% of papers would be fully covered by a $2k cap. 11% of journals/14% of papers wouldn't even make due with a $6k cap. A good place to remind ourselves of the disconnect between what it COSTS to produce a paper and what publishers CHARGE to do so..
August 6, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Of the 199 journals, as little as 7% of journals/5% of papers would be fully covered by a $2k cap. 11% of journals/14% of papers wouldn't even make due with a $6k cap. A good place to remind ourselves of the disconnect between what it COSTS to produce a paper and what publishers CHARGE to do so..
Some of the data is now quoted in the news article and we're working on a blog post to share some more detailed analysis. For now, have a look at how the APCs of the 199 most popular journals of NIH authors in 2025 would not be covered by the proposed $2,000 and $3,000 caps.
August 6, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Some of the data is now quoted in the news article and we're working on a blog post to share some more detailed analysis. For now, have a look at how the APCs of the 199 most popular journals of NIH authors in 2025 would not be covered by the proposed $2,000 and $3,000 caps.