Kevin J. Black @kjbinstl@qoto.org

Non-profit journals as a solution to open science?

Publishers charge researchers incredible amounts to remove paywalls from their own papers...and make unbelievable profits from doing so. Several have an >30% profit margin.

Initiatives such as @PeerCommunityIn provide an alternative: open access, non-profit journals that are free to publish in.

https://peercommunityin.org/
https://peercommunityjournal.org/
#OpenScience #Science #AcademicChatter @academicchatter
Graph (2013): @alexh https://alexholcombe.wordpress.com/2013/01/09/scholarly-publishers-and-their-high-profits/

When scholars without expertise in infrastructure reform encounter the goals of the reform movement, such as e.g., replacing academic journals,

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5526634

they sometimes reflexively defend the status quo that served them well, e.g.:

“You ‘open’ wackaloons are forcing your revolution on us, against our academic freedom!”

I was asked to write a *one-page* cheat sheet with the evidence to counter such a reflex:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vjbohSsf-qy8ZkCvQ9FRlF9k1N12oSLu8qwXoKxjD2o/edit?usp=sharing

Can you/we improve on that?
#openscience

Just saved myself a lot of space in this application I'm writing with the DOI shortener tool from the DOI Foundation 👍

Non-professionals can be trained to deliver empirically supported psychosocial interventions that are effective for many people: https://www.statnews.com/2022/12/13/ecuador-lessons-increasing-access-mental-health-care/ 🤝 #mentalhealth #psychology #social #socialwork #psychiatry #health #wellness #research

Starting Jan 17, all veterans will be able to access emergency mental health care free of charge at any Veterans Affairs medical facility or outside clinic. https://www.militarytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2023/01/13/va-to-pay-for-all-emergency-mental-health-care-starting-next-week/ 👏🏻 #mentalhealth #military #veterans #emergency #health #healthcare #va #ptsd #suicide #suicideprevention #hope #psychology #psychotherapy #psychiatry #socialwork #goodnews

Just (re)discovered Casey Greene's super "preprint similarity search tool". It did a great job for our recent #preprint. It uses a language learning model to find like #publications to help you pick your target #journals.

https://greenelab.github.io/preprint-similarity-search/

Finland has closely watched the Russian troll factory's efforts to create chaos in free democracies. We now educate our children to recognize #misinformation and rank #1 in our ability to resist it.

I wish the Americans would do the same.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/10/world/europe/finland-misinformation-classes.html?unlocked_article_code=AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACEIPuonUktbfqIhkSVUaAybKWsIjolqLmOLI2LF7iH74KCGTRXNHzv8UBYaH4ULEeatkYZ442z2AX9Jadr8zQfg4hsluA3tQcSj66J2VhMZCZCwvtYO4Wm5x1smXBO5nqDKvYjbndKIileKy-huKO2n1UPDY1nZ3JV1np5pkZkjqjSJTvtrNFuF-3dV83f4zVNstFXpbOn7877S_AA5-Od6Hchjf9gE0PupbUj3RltSXgKkSJEQQURmVCSMivhtvrY9UK9gVP6zgLhY_e8eYgrwZDmVgLofBFIS5pvO9ZV-vudr4BKbnXCby

How to slow down scientific progress

"Leo Szilard—the physicist who first conceived of the nuclear chain reaction and who urged the US to undertake the Manhattan Project—also wrote fiction. His book of short stories, The Voice of the Dolphins, contains a story “The Mark Gable Foundation,” dated 1948."

You can see the full thing at this link, but I've also taken a screenshot of an excerpt. 😬 🤔 😢

https://rootsofprogress.org/szilard-on-slowing-science

The scholarly "community should demand longer-term solutions that break up the monopoly of academic publishers"

From an ex-Nature editor:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30709550/

even before we wrote that we need to replace academic journals:
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5526634

#openscience #OpenAccess

Very next day after the domestic terrorist attack in Brasilia:
- 400 arrests
- clear statement with the law and decree that are being put in place
- total condemnation of the terrorists by the conservatives
- "we're going after everyone involved: organizers, sponsors and politicians!"
- the governor of Brasilia was fire

Who's the banana republic now?
#arrestTheTerrorists #January6th

By @NeuroMinded !
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RT @brembs
"we have conceded the curation and dissemination of scientific knowledge to those for whom science will be their second priority and who value important results over rigorous process."
Says former Nature editor:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30709550/
#openscience
https://twitter.com/brembs/status/1612345698954919936

The bivalent booster in people age 65+ compared with those who did not receive it, among >622,000 participants
81% reduction of hospitalizations (Figure)
86% reduction of deaths
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4314067

A very nice position paper by the ever-reliable Brembs et al

*Replacing academic journals*
https://zenodo.org/record/5793611#.Y71oW7RBxs0

"a modern scholarly digital infrastructure... needs to replace traditional journals with a decentralized, resilient, evolvable network that is interconnected by open standards under the governance of the scholarly community"

If we shift from publishing in journals to posting preprints...how do we get feedback on our work?

One group's solution is to create "Preprint Clubs", where communities of academics host regular journal clubs where they review and then post their reviews online: https://www.preprintclub.com

Preprints rated most favourably by the group are then featured in a participating journal.

via https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.01.04.522570
#OpenScience #AcademicPublishing #ResearchIntegrity @academicchatter