Das #Datentracking durch wissenschaftliche Großverlage wie #Elsevier ist ein Riesengeschäft und gleichzeitig ein massives Problem für die #Wissenschaftsfreiheit.

Yuliya Fadeeva setzt sich intensiv mit dem Datentracking auseinander. Sie sagt: Elsevier arbeitet an einer „End-to-End-Plattformisierung der Wissenschaft“.

Für @irightsinfo habe ich Yuliya Fadeeva interviewt: Was weiß Elsevier über uns? ...und was wissen wir über Elsevier?

https://irights.info/artikel/datentracking-elsevier-yuliya-fadeeva-interview/32777

#Sciencetracking #Spionage #AkaPub

The 5 stages of the enshittification of academic publishing

https://theconversation.com/the-5-stages-of-the-enshittification-of-academic-publishing-269714

cc @pluralistic

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RE: https://openbiblio.social/@georgfischer/115662215251779061

Das wissenschaftliche Publikationswesen lockt nun auch die #Bitcoin Bubble an.

#AkaPub #OpenAccess

"In this article, we show that the relationships that have developed between researchers, their
funders and commercial publishers are draining the research system, despite (sometimes even, due to) recent efforts to embrace Open Access publishing models. The drain is four-fold, depriving the research system of Money, Time, Trust and Control."

The Drain of Scientific Publishing, by Beigel, F. et al., arXiv: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2511.04820

#AkaPub #OpenAccess

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„Why do I insist on the word pernicious? It is because the publication target puts the cart of publication before the horse of writing. It makes the academic want to publish before they have something to say or contribute to the body of knowledge in their field. It pushes the academic to hurry the process of study and research. It pushes young scholars to aim for publications when they are not yet confident of their own writing ability [...]“

Probably the first time that I read the term "onionising" in the context of open infrastructures and #OpenAccess publishing

Why @copim goes Tor (spoiler: because of commercial platforms like Adobe, Microsoft or Amazon and their terrible digital #surveillance of academic practices) https://copim.pubpub.org/pub/copim-intellectual-privacy-and-open-access/release/1

#Datentracking #AkaPub

Gibt es eigentlich einen guten Text, in dem das Konzept der "Tragik der Allmende" / "tragedy of the commons" in Bezug auf #OpenAccess und #KuenstlicheIntelligenz diskutiert wird?

#OAxAI #AkaPub

#Payola gibt's auch in der Wissenschaft:

Google Scholar is (still) doing nothing about citation manipulation
https://reeserichardson.blog/2025/05/06/google-scholar-is-still-doing-nothing-about-citation-manipulation/

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Offenbar ist das die neue Tauschbörse von Alexandra Elbakyan, der Gründerin von #SciHub: https://sci-net.xyz/ (mir fehlt es an einem invite code um auszuprobieren)

„When someone struggles to access paywalled research article, they can post a request on Sci-Net. The other member who have access through university subscription will solve the request by uploading a PDF file.“

Erinnert an #ICanHazPDF – und das Tokensystem an die Belohnungsmechanismen aus früheren Warez Groupz

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This is a really fascinating example for a digital "mumpsimus", an error that keeps on spreading – and a real epistemic and methodological challenge for research.

The term “vegetative electron microscopy” is a nonsense phrase that keeps popping up in scientific articles. Researchers from Australia have now identified its origin. It comes from a false OCR scan of literature from the 1950s that continues to spread undetected due to AI tools.
https://theconversation.com/a-weird-phrase-is-plaguing-scientific-papers-and-we-traced-it-back-to-a-glitch-in-ai-training-data-254463

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