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Open archive of social science. Free. Academy owned. Posts by director Philip N. Cohen. Say it: so-SHAR-kive (soʊʃɑrkaɪv). Website: socarxiv.org. New papers post at: https://bsky.app/profile/socarxivbot.bsky.social

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Next week is #OpenAccessWeek! We encourage you to celebrate it by joining the movement that aims to revolutionize the publishing system by moving away from gatekeeping practices to an open, transparent system where dialogue between researchers, reviewers, editors, and readers is encouraged!

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The integration with OSF Projects was a very strong advantage for us, but there are good alternatives now both for the papers and for research materials, and it is not as important for them to be on the same platform anymore. So, yes, considering alternatives.

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Not many people submit that many papers. The main issue is AI-assisted scholars who post many papers at a time (we have seen 50 at once). This policy lets us just reject them based on volume instead of reading them and justifying each rejection.

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SocArXiv now has a limit of two papers per week. If authors submit more than that we assume they are LLM-generated and reject them all. Normal humans who need to upload a batch of papers, which sometimes happens, must make arrangements. Also today, ArXiv set a two papers per month limit.

@pamelaoliver.bsky.socialReposted by @socarxiv.bsky.social

John Levi Martin's detailed methodological critique of the "Rubin report" about sociology probably should be required reading for all sociologists. Well worth your time. One take-away is maybe our internal disciplinary fractiousness has some good sides. 1/
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"A Reader’s Guide To The Rubin Report." John Levi Martin on @ashleytrubin.bsky.social's disciplinary report on sociology: "focused on whether she actually marshaled evidence to support her arguments, and whether she correctly represents her sources."
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Unfortunately (?) it's not our platform and we can't modify it. We have requested a list of high-priority modifications that will probably never happen (eg, automatic ORCID requirement, ability to give R&Rs instead of just rejections, new subject classification, etc) due to resource constraints

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We didn't use to have proper versioning, with a DOI suffix (v1 v2) and new notification for each version. Now that we do, which is good, we have to moderate every version, which is a hassle. The work of comparing versions would be untenable (we have no capacity to automate, no staff, no budget) 😃

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Minor corrections are fine, but we sometimes caution people who submit many versions, which can be deliberate to generate attention (and we may behave erratically - Sorry about that!) Please feel free to resubmit - if you send an email to socarxiv at gmail we'll make sure it goes through.

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We do let you fix minor bugs. But the new version has to go through moderation. If you have a trustworthy, reliable way to classify things as "minor" without requiring review, we're all ears. Absent some advanced system, seems to me the service is either moderated or it's not. Sorry to disappoint.

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Classification testing: A new framework for drawing qualitative conclusions from quantitative estimates
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@socarxiv.bsky.social preprint by @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social Senior Research Fellow @aeggers.bsky.social and recent Junior Visiting Scholar @tzkli.bsky.social

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Important news from our host, COS. Starting in November SocArXiv users will no longer be able to create new OSF Projects. You will need to host research materials in another repository, such as Zenodo, and link out to them. Existing public projects will be preserved. Preprints service will continue.

Center for Open Science@cos.io

COS is announcing important changes to the Open Science Framework (OSF). OSF Projects—used for project collaboration, file mgmt, & storage—is being phased out as an active workspace over the next 6 months. This change does not affect persistence & accessibility of existing public projects. (🧵1/2)

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"Information Shock: How AI Demands An Evolution Of Information Science" Essay links to SocArXiv paper:

R. David Lankes@rdlankes.bsky.social

I've been doing a lot of thinking about how generative AI impacts information science and libraries. Also, trying to figure out why AI literacy is not a satisfying approach. I'd love your thoughts. informationmatters.org/2026/07/ai-i...

informationmatters.orgAI, Information Shock, and a New Information Science - Information MattersWe are living in the early stages of an Information Shock caused by generative AI. Information Shocks are rare, but historically transformative. This one will require a reinvention of information scie...
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"AI slop in the scientific record and generally on the internet is making science less trustworthy ...AI enthusiasts are telling the world that the remedies should all be easy to automate...That’s not the reality for scientific publishing right now or likely in the future."
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science.orgAI in scientific publishing: Slower, worse, and more expensiveThere’s a saying in the management world, popularized by NASA administrator Daniel Goldin in the 1990s, that the goal of technological improvements is to make products faster, better, and cheaper. Alt...
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