Elsevier’s stranglehold on academia: How publishers get rich off our data

Academic publishers get rich collecting and then selling data from researchers. That is extremely concerning, say UG researchers.

UKrant.nl
I often find at work I wish I could say: Just let me write a SELECT query against your backend databases. I can make this problem go away and save several FTEs work faffing around manually with spreadsheets... #Databases #SingleSourceOfTruth #AcademicIT

#introduction. This is me.

I'm Eleanor/LNR. Some of you may know me from usenet (#AFP) and Livejournal.

I'm married to Mike with one child (Matthew). I'm #bi, and a trans-inclusive intersectional #FeministKilljoy - #LGBTQ+.

I like to #knit and #crochet but I'm not very good at it. I like #ComputerGames, particularly #Minecraft and #Pokemon at the moment.

I am a cyclist, and #cycling advocate. #ThisMachineFightsClimateChange

I work in #AcademicIT and I'm an active member of #UCU

Hello :)