If you are gonna nitpick authors about an arbitrary overlap percentage in Crossref reports, then don’t run the report including the affiliations, author list, references, standard disclosures, and mandatory statements in the cover letter (not even part of the manuscript!) all counting toward the overlap.
So annoying. Authors are stuck dealing with manuscripts that obviously do not have problems with text borrowing
#Elsevier is a publisher with a lot of experience. You would think they would understand DOIs. They do not. As if they don't care about references and citations. If you see a "10/gh3n5k" about where you could expect a DOI, it probably was supposed to be a DOI. Maybe try to add some publisher value and work with the authors to fix that? Then you can also check if the author list is actually correct (no, it was not). Is this a N=1? No, it is not. It is a routine #fail in #publishing
Aufpassen müsst ihr weiterhin, wenn ihr ausvershen auf #Telegram seid.
Auf keinen Fall diesen Bot anschreiben: https://t.me/scihubot
Nicht, dass ihr noch ausversehen hinter die #Paywall kommt!
Wichtig noch zu wissen: Da ja #scihub jetzt sicher ist, da in Deutschland die DNS einträge umleiten.
Geht bitte auf keinen Fall auf http://libgen.is/ um hinter eine #Paywall für Wissenschaftsartikel zu schauen.
Libgen ist nämlich gebauso schlecht wie scihub, denn es Spiegelt die Datenbank.
Denkt doch mal an uns Autor*innen!
Denkt immer daran, wie viel wir bekommen, wenn wir bei #Elsevier & Co. veröffentlichen: 0(!) €!
Wollt ihr uns das wegnehmen???
Reminder: MIT Libraries have been out of contract with Elsevier for four years now.
Bravo MIT!
More like this please. Paying the ransom only encourages the robber-barons to crank-up the ransom price the next year. We need to break the cycle. Don't feed the monster.
@rmounce Perhaps we need to copy the methods of other racket-fighting initiatives. Like the incentives to SEC whistleblowers or the first cartel member to report their own cartel to the European Commission.
Perhaps a reverse subscribe to open where universities and consortia can get cash in return for cancelling any and all #Elsevier subscriptions and APC for at least 10 years? FIFO, when a quorum is reached you get 50 % of your former expenditure, to be spent on [pre-approved list of things].
Core competencies are something I think about a lot. I love to dig into what makes companies or ecosystems or social groups tick. Especially when that core competency enables what they do:
McDonald's, for example, is a real estate company that happens to make burgers.
Walmart is a shipping logistics company that also sells things.
What other examples can you think of where the core competency of the company is such that the "thing" a company does falls out naturally as a consequence?
There have been a lot of posts about #AI chatbot content finding its way into papers in #Elsevier journals.
This raises a lot of questions about the journals’ peer review and production quality
It also suggests the possibility of author misconduct. But I’d caution against assuming every case is fraud. Authors can use these tools for more than just “make up a paper for me”. They can be used to translate or rephrase author’s original text, for example. Doing that is not a good idea… 🧵 1/3
#ScienceDirect and #Elsevier clearly didn't review this #chemistry paper about #batteries. The intro starts with "Certainly, here is a possible introduction for your topic:".
This lack of oversight erodes #trust in #science. The paper needs to be retracted and the authors sanctioned immediately.
Folks this #LexisNexis risk assessment product that vacuums up all automotive data and uses it to raise your insurance rates is none other than the offspring of #RELX, parent of #Elsevier. Far from being an isolated product unrelated to scholarly publishing, year after year in their promotional material they boast how these are integrated systems at both a technical and operational level - your prestige publications fund this, and your professional metrics sold via SciVal are part of the same pool of data.
Who wants to bet that funders wont blink at an "aggregated funding risk score that draws from our proprietary analytics data for a whole-researcher productivity profile." We're beyond surveillance conspiracy theories, these products are here today, and every prestige publication makes us complicit and digs the grave for our own profession.
Heute war das Webinar der @dfg_public zum #ScienceTracking und so gut es war, dass die AG des #AWBI sich dieser Arbeit unterzogen hat, so seltsam war es doch, dem jetzt am Bildschirm zu folgen.
Zwei von drei #DEAL-Verträgen sind also "a bit fishy", wie der Engländer sagt. Weder #Wiley noch #Elsevier arbeiten rechtskonform und sie haben auch keinerlei Absicht, das zu tun. Unterschrieben hat man in vollem Bewusstsein der Tatsachen trotzdem, so wie 2019 auch. (1/x)
New study: "The current level of implementation of transformative agreements is insufficient to bring about a large-scale transition to fully #OpenAccess. A key finding…is that TAs maintain market concentration…The three largest commercial publishers #Elsevier, #SpringerNature & #Wiley dominate, particularly with regard to OA provided through TAs. Together, the 3 publishers accounted for 3/4 of OA articles through TAs." https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.18255
Alright, so many companies are using user or customer data for training #AI without consent that I think I'm going to have to make an ongoing thread to document them all. 🤖
Here we go! 1/x
Starting out with #Reddit who have sold user data to another company, that will use it to train AI:
Here's one from last year that just came to my attention: #Elsevier have packaged up millions of scientific papers and author profiles for anyone to use for "AI and digital transformation" (their words from https://www.elsevier.com/solutions/datasets).
One question asked which social-media platforms I use, and offered a list of platforms with checkboxes. The list included #GooglePlus. It omitted #Mastodon and #Bluesky.
For #Elsevier / #RELX and other massive industrial publishers, increase in paper volume in #APC-driven open access is the main source of growth that is presented to investors. More papers needed to stay afloat in always-increasing proprietary bibliometric sea, bigger profits. On the other end of the business, surveillance backed analytics tools to insurance companies and law enforcement is the biggest growth driver.
These are the companies we have paid billions in public money to over a generation. Another 13% hike in profits, now £3 billion annually. When will we find the courage to say enough is enough?
Its so profitable because they do so little and are able to extort from so many. They were only able to develop into these surveillance driven profit megaliths because academics unconditionally paid for the privilege of prestige with public funds. Anyone who participates in this system needs to reckon with their role in propping up the core informatics platform used in ICE's deportation machine, in the new generation of biomedical surveillance tech used to opaquely deny coverage, and in the plunder and privatization of what should be the shared, global attempt to understand our reality.
Its not just about the papers, though thats the easiest thing to solve by an immediate unconditional boycott: nothing of value would be lost. We've spawned an industry that now squeezes the life out of the rest of what our research touches, medicine, law, energy, and the rest. Have we no courage, have we no shame? #RELX#Elsevier
Can anyone explain what's going on with the boycott of Elsevier/Springer? I finally got around to submitting the paper on partitions I posted about yesterday, and I figured that the Elsevier Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series A, would be a reasonable choice. A friend then pointed out to me that many Americans would be upset about this, so it might hurt my future job opportunities. A similar comment was made about the Journal of Algebraic Combinatorics, which I have reviewed for.
Does anyone know the details of these boycotts? I see that people like Tim Gowers and @johncarlosbaez are signatories, but how can I have a career in math without publishing in these journals? I don't like the existing system either, but I don't have enough money or presitge to just disregard it.
It's reporting season for UK academics funded by #UKRI. UKRI mandates use of #ResearchFish, a commercial product that was originally spun out (maybe from #MRC?) and is now owned by #Elsevier 🙃. For the first time IIRC, I will have to accept Elsevier #privacy policy when I upload my #research outcomes.
Oligopoly and massive vertical integration in this sector: in medium term, most likely to benefit #investors.
Change.org petition to update the out of date chapter on ME/CFS in an upcoming medical textbook from Elsevier. (chng.it)
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