mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06The Leibniz Strategy Forum Open Science examines the effects of participatory tools and Open Science on the scholarly system
Data Protection: http://zbw.to/OfNVS
Imprint: http://zbw.to/JDMxO
Hidden prompts can manipulate AI-generated peer reviews: "Positive steering, refusal, and external-site redirection exceed 98% success on both systems; watermarking remains high but less reliable, reaching 94.27% on ChatGPT and 88.17% on Gemini."
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11192-026-05695-x
Scholarly communication as a collective responsibility https://www.leidenmadtrics.nl/articles/scholarly-communication-as-a-collective-responsibility
"Wie viel KI ist zu viel KI? Dieser Frage hat sich nun auch die englischsprachige Ausgabe der Wissens-Enzyklopädie Wikipedia gestellt, und die Antwort ist eindeutig: Von KI erstellte Artikel werden mit sofortiger Wirkung vollständig verboten. Gewisse Einsätze für spezifische Aufgaben bleiben hingegen erlaubt."
Making scientific knowledge free for all https://theconversation.com/making-scientific-knowledge-free-for-all-286857
"This summer, arXiv is taking a big leap. On July 1, 2026, after decades of growth and productive collaboration with Cornell University, arXiv is branching out and becoming an independent nonprofit."
https://blog.arxiv.org/2026/04/02/arxiv-is-becoming-an-independent-nonprofit/
"Adrian Treves und Kollegen von der University of Wisconsin–Madison präsentieren in Research Integrity and Peer Review den 'Vampir-Artikel'. Damit meinen sie die Veröffentlichung eines Befunds, der nachweislich nicht reproduzierbar ist, der aber trotzdem weiterhin zustimmend zitiert wird. Anders als Zombies wurden Vampire nie offiziell für tot erklärt – und treiben gerade deshalb weiterhin ihr Unwesen."
Join us at Barcamp #OpenScience 2026! It is open to everybody interested in connecting with like-minded people embracing Open Science, unlocking new perspectives and networking on Open Science, and thriving Open Science together! #oscibar
📅 10 June 2026 at @wikimediaDE@social.wikimedia.de (Berlin)
👉 Register here (participation is free): https://barcamp-open-science.eu
#oscibar #OpenAccess #OpenData #OpenCode #OpenPeerReview #OER
"Analysing 60,608 retracted publications from 2009 to 2024, the article traces how retraction patterns have shifted alongside the expansion of OA, with gold OA surpassing closed access as the dominant modality among retracted articles by 2023."
Under the motto "Meet. Share. Inspire. Care.", the Open Science Festival (18 and 19 March 2027) brings together researchers, early-career scientists, students, citizen scientists, and staff from service and research institutions – to exchange ideas, network, and learn from one another.
The Call for Proposals has just started:
https://www.uni-bamberg.de/en/university/events/translate-to-english-open-science-festival-2027/translate-to-english-call-for-proposals/
HAW Hamburg: "Was ist in der Lehrveranstaltung erlaubt und wo liegen die rechtlichen Grenzen? Der Code of Conduct bietet Lehrenden und Studierenden Orientierung in einem zunehmend komplexen Hochschulalltag und schafft Klarheit in zentralen Rechtsfragen rund um Lehre, Kommunikation und Verhalten in Lehrveranstaltungen."
"The scholarly publishing system is, undeniably, not in the best of health. It is beset by a whole range of pressures. It carries on, but it is limping. The well-meaning use of AI to help speed things up might, in this analogy, be the fever that ends up sending the whole thing to its sickbed, opening the door for much more damaging illnesses—in the form of intentional and malicious disinformation—to take root and do real harm."
"Through an inductive analysis of the 50 distinct terms identified, we propose a classification consisting of nine categories: mis-citation, citation distortion, uncritical citation, irrelevant citation, excessive self-citation, citation manipulation, selective citation, coercive citation, and bibliographic plagiarism."
"In today’s scholarly communication ecosystem, transparency risks becoming exposure. It’s time to rethink our approach to openness in the face of integrity threats."
Creative Commons just released the report "Licensing Best Practices for Sharing Scientific Data": This report builds on our 2023 report Recommended Best Practices for the Better Sharing of Climate Data with the goal of extending the open data practices originally designed for climate data to other disciplines."
https://creativecommons.org/2026/04/20/licensing-best-practices-for-the-sharing-of-scientific-data/
“Judge Rakoff of the Southern District of New York — addressing “a question of first impression nationwide” — ruled that written exchanges between a criminal defendant and generative AI platform Claude were not protected by attorney-client privilege or the work product doctrine.“
https://harvardlawreview.org/blog/2026/03/united-states-v-heppner/
"FORRT is excited to launch the Open Research Games Portal – a crowdsourced, pedagogically informed database of games and interactive activities for teaching open and reproducible research practices."
"Modeled on the widely-used Nutrition Facts label, its goal is to quickly and easily share facts about a research article with whoever is reading it, whether that’s another researcher, a journalist, a policy-maker, a member of the public, or anyone else."
https://blog.doaj.org/2026/04/22/introducing-the-publication-facts-label-another-tool-in-your-research-integrity-toolkit/
"Whether AI ultimately narrows or expands scientific imagination will depend on how the feedback loops it triggers are shaped and governed across the scientific ecosystem. These dynamics are neither fixed nor inevitable, but contingent on institutional choices about what is valued, rewarded, and sustained."
"NeuroLibre is a powerful preprint server for reproducible neuroscience notebooks that seamlessly integrate data, code, runtime, text and (preferably interactive) figures."
ℹ️ We are excited that this year’s Ignition Talk at #oscibar is given by Melanie Bartos (University of Innsbruck) on the very timely topic: "Breaking Up with Big Tech: #OpenScience Needs Open Science Communication"
👉 Register here: https://www.barcamp-open-science.eu/
👉 Don't hesitate to already propose barcamp sessions
"The Dutch publisher Wolters Kluwer has scrapped some of its citation and study-registration requirements at a top-ranked surgery journal founded by the U.K. plastic surgeon Riaz Agha, Retraction Watch has learned."
https://retractionwatch.com/2026/04/07/wolters-kluwer-international-journal-surgery-changes-citation-registration-policies/
Die Bibliothek der Rutgers University (New Jersey, USA) hat kürzlich ein Symposium zum Thema "Research Reimagined: AI's Transformative Power at Rutgers" organisiert. Der komplette Videomitschnitt ist nun im Netz: https://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/news/watch-recent-symposium-explores-ai-research
"These findings provide the first large-scale evidence based on full-text publications and multiple databases that some LLM-associated terms are now being used much more frequently and together in academic writing. However, the results do not provide direct causal evidence and cannot distinguish between LLM-generated text, LLM-edited text, or broader adoption of LLM-associated writing or publishing styles."
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11192-026-05601-5
"We present Paper Copilot, a system that creates durable digital archives of peer reviews across a wide range of computer-science venues, an open dataset that enables researchers to study peer review at scale, and a large-scale empirical analysis of ICLR reviews spanning multiple years."
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.13201
"Die Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Berlin (HTW) hat Erfreuliches zu berichten: Seit kurzem sind an der HTW vier Ambassadors für Open Science benannt."
https://blogs.fu-berlin.de/open-research-berlin/2026/03/25/htw-berlin-ambassadors-open-science/
"The ORION dashboard enables easy exploration of CWTS OpenAlex data on BigQuery, letting users analyse institutions, funders, and research topics via interactive visualisations and reproducible SQL queries without any coding skills required."
https://www.leidenmadtrics.nl/articles/orion-dashboard-bringing-open-research-data-within-reach
"Österreichische Universitäten sind ab sofort über den oa.atlas zu finden, weitere Institutionen sollen folgen. Das Redaktionsteam arbeitet derzeit daran, die Inhalte kontinuierlich auszubauen. Beschäftigte an österreichischen Universitäten sind eingeladen, die Einträge ihrer Einrichtungen zu prüfen und bei Bedarf über das Reviewformular zu ergänzen oder zu korrigieren."
👉 https://open-access.network/services/news/artikel/oesterreich-im-oaatlas
"The global diamond open access community gathered in Bengaluru for conversation over kaapi and chai. Malavika Legge reports."
https://katinamagazine.org/content/article/open-knowledge/2026/abcs-of-diamond-oa-third-global-summit
"This study analyzes the cognitive dissonance displayed by authors at research intensive institutions in the United States (U.S.) regarding the scholarly publishing of Open Access (OA) publications. A qualitative analysis of 154 open-ended responses was conducted."
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0351430
WHO marks 25 years of Research4Life, advancing access to scientific knowledge in more than 120 countries https://www.who.int/news/item/21-07-2026-who-marks-25-years-of-research4life--advancing-access-to-scientific-knowledge-in-more-than-120-countries
Open Science for Sovereignty: the Next Challenge
Introducing the CC Open Heritage Companion https://creativecommons.org/2026/07/16/cc-open-heritage-companion/
Der GEBF-Vortrag von Prof. Markus Gebhardt (LMU München) zum Thema "Open Science in der Bildungsforschung" ist online: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-xSEM-wudc
Internationale Partner – auch aus Deutschland (TIB, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft) haben mit OA Forward eine neue, global koordinierte Initiative gestartet, um Open-Access-Verhandlungen mit Verlagen zu stärken und den Übergang zu einer offeneren wissenschaftlichen Kommunikation strategisch voranzutreiben.
How Often Does the Public Use AI for Humanities Tasks?
"The data reveal that most American adults have not used AI to perform any of the tasks indicated but they were more likely to use AI for humanities-related tasks."
https://www.amacad.org/news/how-often-does-public-use-ai-humanities-tasks
The ZBW invites you to the next Coffee Lecture on Open Science Education. This time, our guest speaker is Lenka Fiala from the Institute for Replication at the University of Ottawa. She will discuss the topic "Replication Games: Promoting Reproducibility with Open-Access and Restricted Data"!
It's free to join:
📅 8 September 2026
💻️ Online presentation
Find out more about the event (the registration is already open):
https://openeconomics.zbw.eu/coffee-lectures-on-open-science-education/
Trajectory modelling of publishing costs using Open Research Information - An open source analytics pipeline https://zenodo.org/records/20957444
"Cancer Research UK estimates that ending APC funding will save around £5.2 million over three years, money it argues can be better spent directly on research."
https://www.samuelmoore.org/2026/04/14/why-funders-shouldnt-withdraw-money-from-open-access-publishing/
"The AFI report showed that, between 2015 and 2025, 50 countries experienced a significant decline across all indicators of academic freedom. Forty-three countries, including countries in Europe and North America such as Poland, the Netherlands, Canada, and the US, saw substantive declines specifically in their schools’ institutional autonomy."
https://cen.acs.org/research-integrity/academic-freedom-declines-university-autonomy/104/web/2026/04
Think preprints are unreliable? Analysis of 70,000 studies might change your mind https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-02167-3
"EMS Press – the publishing house of the European Mathematical Society – has announced that two established mathematics journals will join its portfolio, in what it describes as a significant shift away from commercial publishing models."
At Barcamp Open Science 2026, the focus was mainly on the resilience of Open Science, the labeling of AI use, and longstanding questions about incentives for Open Science and Open Educational Resources. The series “Open Science Success Stories” was continued as well. In the current blog post (ger/eng) from ZBW MediaTalk, readers can now catch up on the day’s key topics, debates, and ideas: https://www.zbw-mediatalk.eu/de/2026/07/barcamp-open-science-2026-herausfordernde-zeiten-meistern/
Who Funds Open Data Sharing? Analysis of data availability statements in biomedical publications https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.07.17.739022v1
Taking Steps Toward Open Data in Motor Control, Learning, and Development https://journals.humankinetics.com/view/journals/jmld/13/1/article-p1.xml
Work Plans: A Tool for Suggesting Implementation Strategies to Improve the FAIRness of Data Repositories https://datascience.codata.org/articles/10.5334/dsj-2026-025
"The freely available calculator computes one’s M-index based on the number of publications senior scientists have with their juniors, offering a new way to evaluate researchers’ academic impact."
https://www.the-scientist.com/the-m-index-a-new-metric-puts-mentorship-in-the-spotlight-74280
Reshaping Research Assessment: Monitoring and Rewarding Openness https://portal.findresearcher.sdu.dk/en/publications/reshaping-research-assessment-monitoring-and-rewarding-openness/
Feminist Metascience, Feminist Open Science? Pain Points and Possibilities - Christin L. Munsch, Daisy Verduzco Reyes, 2026 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/08912432261466769
"Progress around data sharing has improved access, but not equity."
https://www.bmj.com/content/393/bmj-2026-372314
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