Michael Piotrowski#swissuniversities Negotiations with Springer Nature: No-deal Situation. #BigPub #cartels
https://www.swissuniversities.ch/en/topics/open-science/publisher-negotiations/springer-nature
“Ethical safeguards”!? As if Elsevier knew anything about ethics. I’ve never published with Elsevier, nor will I, I’m not reviewing for you, and I’m most certainly not interested in your !@#$% spam.
The #BigPub cartels can go f✪ck themselves.
Surprise, pas de surprise: The #BigPub cartels are demonstrating once again that they’re as reckless as the drug cartels.
https://scholar.social/@Iris/115020211902735145
https://scholar.social/@Iris/115020211902735145
Iris van Rooij 💭 (@[email protected])
"I thought, Huh?! This is definitely not how we — cognitive scientists — use that term. Then I saw the last sentence, “AI-generated definition”, and I realised what went wrong. This was AI slop. Not only that. It was AI slop on ScienceDirect, a “premier platform for scientific, health and technical literature” (...)" https://irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2025/08/12/ai-slop-and-the-destruction-of-knowledge/
OUP hasn’t suddenly turned evil, this has been going on for years now.
Here’s another reason why not to publish in DSH.
If universities need to cut costs, here’s an easy solution: STOP throwing tax money at the #BigPub cartels.
Once a sufficiently large number of scholars no longer have access to the cartels’ journals, the incentives for publishing in them will also go away, and people will eventually realize that the cartels contribute NOTHING to research.
With “AI deals,” the added value is now below zero.
https://mastodon.social/@leibnizopenscience/114319451953889493
That’s the way!
Stop making “deals” with the #BigPub cartels! Use the money to hire researchers!
https://openbiblio.social/@Lib4RI/114268986539963730
Lib4RI (@[email protected])
Attached: 1 image Our latest #newsletter comes with some #breakingnews. On 31 March, the Swiss negotiations with Wiley were discontinued. We wrap up what happened, how the researchers at our institutes will be affected and provide some recommendations for action, as compiled by swissuniversities. Find more here: https://www.lib4ri.ch/lib4ri-update-39-no-deal-wiley #OpenScience #OpenAccess #AcademicPublishing
You’d think that stuff like this would finally get academics and politicians to rid themselves of the cartels for good.
But no, better a hiring freeze than letting go of the illusion that journals and impact factors and “prestigious publishers” make research quality measurable.
peter purgathofer (@[email protected])
»advanced nanovaccines for cancer immunotherapy« by nanasaheb thorat, a book published by springer, contains the phrase »As an AI language model« on page 25. this raises a couple of significant questions: is this book still trustworthy, if it was written using an AI that we know produces text containing »alternative facts«. what is the actual harm such a book can cause? what are the quality assurance measures at springer actually worth? btw. this book costs $100+.
Way to go! The cartels thrive on the mistaken belief that they’re essential. They aren’t.
#BigPub
https://openbiblio.social/@openwarfare/113961260716267730
Craig Aaen Stockdale (@[email protected])
#Norway has stuck to its guns while negotiatiing a new national publishing agreement with #Wiley. As a result, 57 #research institutions in Norway have lost access to paywalled content indefinitely. #scholarlypublishing #openaccess https://www.openscience.no/en/news/no-agreement-between-wiley-and-sikt-new-publish-and-read-agreement-2025
Cartels doing cartel things.
Mike Taylor 🦕 (@[email protected])
"The following … current SpringerLink practices … conflict with the ALA Code of Ethics, the Library Bill of Rights, and the IFLA Statement on Privacy in the Library Environment: * SpringerLink uses web beacons, cookies, and other invasive web surveillance methods … to track user behavior outside and beyond the SpringerLink website. • 200 third parties—including data brokers, advertisers, and marketing companies … are allowed to collect user information." [Two more]" https://zenodo.org/records/13886473