Librarian @ISU_Library, Research Associate #ScholCommLab. Off Twitter. @eschares@scholar.social or @eschares.bsky.social

Joined March 2009
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Eric Schares @eschares@scholar.social retweeted
We are thrilled to share our second white paper publication from our ‘Reasonable Costs’ project: “The Cost and Price of Public Access to Scholarly Publications: A synthesis”. Read our summary here: investinopen.org/the-cost-an…

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$2.5B in APCs paid in 2023 alone. Proud to have been part of this team. Preprint at arxiv.org/abs/2407.16551

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Congrats to the group on another great preprint! OpenAlex's document type classification is one of my last major reservations. Would have liked to see Dimensions compared too.
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Eric Schares @eschares@scholar.social retweeted
New datapaper on journal's APC by @LeighkButler, @maddtrics, @eschares, @juancommander, @stefhaustein! Wow good job! arxiv.org/abs/2406.08356 You can see below the increase of APCs overtime and the highest APCs for hybrid vs. gold OA journals for publishers providing both types...
An open dataset of article processing charges from six large scholarly publishers (2019-2023) arxiv.org/abs/2406.08356
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>36,000 APC data points, 8,712 individual journals, across five years 2019-2023.
Open dataset of annual Article Processing Charges (APCs) of gold and hybrid journals published by Elsevier, Frontiers, MDPI, PLOS, Springer-Nature and Wiley 2019-2023 - ScholCommLab's Dataverse ift.tt/jaEQ4mL
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To continue this train of appreciation, SUB Gottingen has been a major source of inspiration to me. Seeing what’s possible when using and combining open data sources at scale makes me realize how much I need to learn SQL!
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Just published: Inconsistent Hybrid OA rates when re-running the same analysis. Why is Hybrid coming back twice as high as it did before? doi.org/10.31274/b8136f97.b2…
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Good to see that based on feedback that I (and I'm sure many others) gave to @OpenAlex_org , a new document type of "libguide" has been added to the data structure. Was previously grouped in the "article" type. I've found the team to be v responsive and appreciative of feedback!
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Happy to announce that my paper, "Impact of the 2022 OSTP memo" has been recognized with the 2024 Best Publication Award from the American Society for Engineering Education, Engineering Libraries Division (@asee_eld)! doi.org/10.1162/qss_a_00237
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Just published: Comparing Funder Metadata in OpenAlex and Dimensions doi.org/10.31274/b8136f97.cc…
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Eric Schares @eschares@scholar.social retweeted
Pleased and delighted to report a fantastic new resource to help navigate the murky world of academic publishing. This shiny app pagoba.shinyapps.io/strain_e… puts vital data at your fingertips about journal performance. All building of our 'Strain' paper: arxiv.org/abs/2309.15884

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Looks to be an absolute masterpiece. Big congrats to @najkoja!
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At the end of last year, I was finding inconsistent counts of Gold and Hybrid articles between WoS and Dimensions. I tracked it down to Unpaywall classifying articles as Hybrid when they age out of embargo. This is inconsistent with their own definitions and should be Bronze.
Rethinking Hybrid Open Access Labels for Post-Embargo Articles - open ISU ift.tt/RVnUAXq
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Eric Schares @eschares@scholar.social retweeted
Today, we have a big announcement: The new Leiden Ranking Open Edition has been launched! 🎉 The new ranking is completely based on OpenAlex data and provides an open and transparent alternative to traditional rankings. open.leidenranking.com
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OSTP released "Report to the U.S. Congress on Financing Mechanisms for Open Access Publishing of Federally Funded Research" and heavily cited my analysis! They use it to compare to their own analysis with Web of Science and the two agree for the most part whitehouse.gov/wp-content/up…

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Includes a good list of limitations and an accounting of where data is scarce, but they do apply an average of 2023 APC prices by type (Gold/Hybrid) to older years and calculate an (over)estimate of fees paid.
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Terrific article (and dataset) showing just how much publishers made from APCs over three years and how different publishers pursue different strategies. Congrats!
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(Oops, I guess it's actually over 4 years. )
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