Happy to be quoted in this overview looking at the complex problem of who pays for scientific #publishing.
Appearing with @juancommander@mastodon.social , @csmarcum@sciences.social , and @Samuelmoore@hcommons.social
Engineering & Collection Analysis Librarian at Iowa State University.
Research Associate at the ScholCommLab, University of Ottawa.
Working on #DataScience in libraries, #bibliometrics, #Python, #OpenAccess, #ScholComm. ORCiD 0000-0002-6292-8221.
I take a walk and play the piano every day. Opinions my own.
Engineering & Collection Analysis Librarian at Iowa State University. Research Associate at the ScholCommLab, University of Ottawa. Working on #DataScience in libraries, #bibliometrics, #Python, #OpenAccess, #ScholComm. ORCiD 0000-0002-6292-8221. I take a walk and play the piano every day. Opinions my own.
Happy to be quoted in this overview looking at the complex problem of who pays for scientific #publishing.
Appearing with @juancommander@mastodon.social , @csmarcum@sciences.social , and @Samuelmoore@hcommons.social
Engineering & Collection Analysis Librarian at Iowa State University. Research Associate at the ScholCommLab, University of Ottawa. Working on #DataScience in libraries, #bibliometrics, #Python, #OpenAccess, #ScholComm. ORCiD 0000-0002-6292-8221. I take a walk and play the piano every day. Opinions my own.
Very excited to announce that I have been awarded a 3-year grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to study the economics of the academic publishing market!
Analysis will include hybrid journal subscription prices and daily APC price changes.
More to come in 2026.
Engineering & Collection Analysis Librarian at Iowa State University. Research Associate at the ScholCommLab, University of Ottawa. Working on #DataScience in libraries, #bibliometrics, #Python, #OpenAccess, #ScholComm. ORCiD 0000-0002-6292-8221. I take a walk and play the piano every day. Opinions my own.
@csmarcum@sciences.social wow, mind blown! I’ve been daydreaming about all the cool studies that could be done with that data.
Engineering & Collection Analysis Librarian at Iowa State University. Research Associate at the ScholCommLab, University of Ottawa. Working on #DataScience in libraries, #bibliometrics, #Python, #OpenAccess, #ScholComm. ORCiD 0000-0002-6292-8221. I take a walk and play the piano every day. Opinions my own.
@csmarcum@sciences.social is this related to data accessed through an FSRDC? We just got one here at Iowa State.
Engineering & Collection Analysis Librarian at Iowa State University. Research Associate at the ScholCommLab, University of Ottawa. Working on #DataScience in libraries, #bibliometrics, #Python, #OpenAccess, #ScholComm. ORCiD 0000-0002-6292-8221. I take a walk and play the piano every day. Opinions my own.
Engineering & Collection Analysis Librarian at Iowa State University. Research Associate at the ScholCommLab, University of Ottawa. Working on #DataScience in libraries, #bibliometrics, #Python, #OpenAccess, #ScholComm. ORCiD 0000-0002-6292-8221. I take a walk and play the piano every day. Opinions my own.
I sometimes do simple little woodworking projects that teach me every time to just slow down. Do one thing at a time.
Have a bunch of 2x8s to move? Try and rush it with two and you'll hit a wall or knock something over or drop one on your toe. Just one at a time.
Slow is smooth and smooth is fast.
Engineering & Collection Analysis Librarian at Iowa State University. Research Associate at the ScholCommLab, University of Ottawa. Working on #DataScience in libraries, #bibliometrics, #Python, #OpenAccess, #ScholComm. ORCiD 0000-0002-6292-8221. I take a walk and play the piano every day. Opinions my own.
@hauschke@mastodon.social Ah yes, it works for me now as well. It hadn't for two hours prior!
Engineering & Collection Analysis Librarian at Iowa State University. Research Associate at the ScholCommLab, University of Ottawa. Working on #DataScience in libraries, #bibliometrics, #Python, #OpenAccess, #ScholComm. ORCiD 0000-0002-6292-8221. I take a walk and play the piano every day. Opinions my own.
Engineering & Collection Analysis Librarian at Iowa State University. Research Associate at the ScholCommLab, University of Ottawa. Working on #DataScience in libraries, #bibliometrics, #Python, #OpenAccess, #ScholComm. ORCiD 0000-0002-6292-8221. I take a walk and play the piano every day. Opinions my own.
@hauschke@mastodon.social Lots of things having problems. I have a script that runs every morning at 9am that suddenly started giving me errors, ex. mdpi.com/apc also down.
Engineering & Collection Analysis Librarian at Iowa State University. Research Associate at the ScholCommLab, University of Ottawa. Working on #DataScience in libraries, #bibliometrics, #Python, #OpenAccess, #ScholComm. ORCiD 0000-0002-6292-8221. I take a walk and play the piano every day. Opinions my own.
I'm proud to report that after a 2nd place finish last year, WE WON this year's Cy's House of Trivia competition!! 🎉
100 teams of 8 on the floor of Hilton Coliseum, answering 80 questions (with a heavy lean toward Cyclone athletics). I join a family friend's team and chip in more general knowledge.
Engineering & Collection Analysis Librarian at Iowa State University. Research Associate at the ScholCommLab, University of Ottawa. Working on #DataScience in libraries, #bibliometrics, #Python, #OpenAccess, #ScholComm. ORCiD 0000-0002-6292-8221. I take a walk and play the piano every day. Opinions my own.
Engineering & Collection Analysis Librarian at Iowa State University. Research Associate at the ScholCommLab, University of Ottawa. Working on #DataScience in libraries, #bibliometrics, #Python, #OpenAccess, #ScholComm. ORCiD 0000-0002-6292-8221. I take a walk and play the piano every day. Opinions my own.
Engineering & Collection Analysis Librarian at Iowa State University. Research Associate at the ScholCommLab, University of Ottawa. Working on #DataScience in libraries, #bibliometrics, #Python, #OpenAccess, #ScholComm. ORCiD 0000-0002-6292-8221. I take a walk and play the piano every day. Opinions my own.
Engineering & Collection Analysis Librarian at Iowa State University. Research Associate at the ScholCommLab, University of Ottawa. Working on #DataScience in libraries, #bibliometrics, #Python, #OpenAccess, #ScholComm. ORCiD 0000-0002-6292-8221. I take a walk and play the piano every day. Opinions my own.
Engineering & Collection Analysis Librarian at Iowa State University. Research Associate at the ScholCommLab, University of Ottawa. Working on #DataScience in libraries, #bibliometrics, #Python, #OpenAccess, #ScholComm. ORCiD 0000-0002-6292-8221. I take a walk and play the piano every day. Opinions my own.
Engineering & Collection Analysis Librarian at Iowa State University. Research Associate at the ScholCommLab, University of Ottawa. Working on #DataScience in libraries, #bibliometrics, #Python, #OpenAccess, #ScholComm. ORCiD 0000-0002-6292-8221. I take a walk and play the piano every day. Opinions my own.
Engineering & Collection Analysis Librarian at Iowa State University. Research Associate at the ScholCommLab, University of Ottawa. Working on #DataScience in libraries, #bibliometrics, #Python, #OpenAccess, #ScholComm. ORCiD 0000-0002-6292-8221. I take a walk and play the piano every day. Opinions my own.
New paper! We develop a #Bayesian statistical model to better predict future publishing counts by an institution w/ a particular publisher and the associated #APCs. This is important because any #OpenAccess negotiation depends heavily on the expected publication output.
Engineering & Collection Analysis Librarian at Iowa State University. Research Associate at the ScholCommLab, University of Ottawa. Working on #DataScience in libraries, #bibliometrics, #Python, #OpenAccess, #ScholComm. ORCiD 0000-0002-6292-8221. I take a walk and play the piano every day. Opinions my own.
Engineering & Collection Analysis Librarian at Iowa State University. Research Associate at the ScholCommLab, University of Ottawa. Working on #DataScience in libraries, #bibliometrics, #Python, #OpenAccess, #ScholComm. ORCiD 0000-0002-6292-8221. I take a walk and play the piano every day. Opinions my own.
New preprint is out! We combine our recent open dataset of #APC prices with the publication counts per journal-year from @OpenAlex@mastodon.social to estimate how much the academic community has paid in APCs over the last five years.
A: $8.349 billion ($8.968 billion in 2023 US dollars) spent on APCs.
$2.5B in 2023 alone.
We also find that median APCs *paid* are higher than median *listed* fees for both gold (paid: $2,450 vs listed: $2,000) and hybrid ($3,600 vs $3,230).
Engineering & Collection Analysis Librarian at Iowa State University. Research Associate at the ScholCommLab, University of Ottawa. Working on #DataScience in libraries, #bibliometrics, #Python, #OpenAccess, #ScholComm. ORCiD 0000-0002-6292-8221. I take a walk and play the piano every day. Opinions my own.
Engineering & Collection Analysis Librarian at Iowa State University. Research Associate at the ScholCommLab, University of Ottawa. Working on #DataScience in libraries, #bibliometrics, #Python, #OpenAccess, #ScholComm. ORCiD 0000-0002-6292-8221. I take a walk and play the piano every day. Opinions my own.
Engineering & Collection Analysis Librarian at Iowa State University. Research Associate at the ScholCommLab, University of Ottawa. Working on #DataScience in libraries, #bibliometrics, #Python, #OpenAccess, #ScholComm. ORCiD 0000-0002-6292-8221. I take a walk and play the piano every day. Opinions my own.
Engineering & Collection Analysis Librarian at Iowa State University. Research Associate at the ScholCommLab, University of Ottawa. Working on #DataScience in libraries, #bibliometrics, #Python, #OpenAccess, #ScholComm. ORCiD 0000-0002-6292-8221. I take a walk and play the piano every day. Opinions my own.
Terrific article (and dataset) out now @QSS_ISSI@scicomm.xyz showing just how much the Big 5 publishers made from #APCs over four years - $1.06 Billion!
Also clearly lays out how different publishers pursue different strategies - "Elsevier and Wiley mak[e] most APC revenue from hybrid fees and others focus on gold."
Big congrats to the team! @stefhaustein@fediscience.org @leighbutler@mastodon.social https://doi.org/10.1162/qss_a_00272
Engineering & Collection Analysis Librarian at Iowa State University. Research Associate at the ScholCommLab, University of Ottawa. Working on #DataScience in libraries, #bibliometrics, #Python, #OpenAccess, #ScholComm. ORCiD 0000-0002-6292-8221. I take a walk and play the piano every day. Opinions my own.
It was great to attend the @sti2023@social.cwts.nl conference last week. The whole experience was fantastic, but one of the highlights was getting to meet @LudoWaltman@social.cwts.nl in person!
Here you see our "Sweatshirt Diplomacy" based on this summer's USA-NED Women's World Cup game. Ended in a tie, so we both had to wear the other's shirt.
Engineering & Collection Analysis Librarian at Iowa State University. Research Associate at the ScholCommLab, University of Ottawa. Working on #DataScience in libraries, #bibliometrics, #Python, #OpenAccess, #ScholComm. ORCiD 0000-0002-6292-8221. I take a walk and play the piano every day. Opinions my own.
A nice shoutout from Digital Science today on my #OSTP article:
Shoutout to Eric Schares
@eschares@scholar.social for using
@DSDimensions
data in his paper on the Nelson #OSTP Memo! 🤩🙌
We've summarized Eric's paper on the Dimensions site: https://ow.ly/wXZz50OUK77 👈
See the full paper on
@themitpress@mastodon.mit.edu
@QSS_ISSI@scicomm.xyz here: https://doi.org/10.1162/qss_a_00237 👈
Engineering & Collection Analysis Librarian at Iowa State University. Research Associate at the ScholCommLab, University of Ottawa. Working on #DataScience in libraries, #bibliometrics, #Python, #OpenAccess, #ScholComm. ORCiD 0000-0002-6292-8221. I take a walk and play the piano every day. Opinions my own.
Engineering & Collection Analysis Librarian at Iowa State University. Research Associate at the ScholCommLab, University of Ottawa. Working on #DataScience in libraries, #bibliometrics, #Python, #OpenAccess, #ScholComm. ORCiD 0000-0002-6292-8221. I take a walk and play the piano every day. Opinions my own.
Engineering & Collection Analysis Librarian at Iowa State University. Research Associate at the ScholCommLab, University of Ottawa. Working on #DataScience in libraries, #bibliometrics, #Python, #OpenAccess, #ScholComm. ORCiD 0000-0002-6292-8221. I take a walk and play the piano every day. Opinions my own.
Engineering & Collection Analysis Librarian at Iowa State University. Research Associate at the ScholCommLab, University of Ottawa. Working on #DataScience in libraries, #bibliometrics, #Python, #OpenAccess, #ScholComm. ORCiD 0000-0002-6292-8221. I take a walk and play the piano every day. Opinions my own.
Engineering & Collection Analysis Librarian at Iowa State University. Research Associate at the ScholCommLab, University of Ottawa. Working on #DataScience in libraries, #bibliometrics, #Python, #OpenAccess, #ScholComm. ORCiD 0000-0002-6292-8221. I take a walk and play the piano every day. Opinions my own.