So Elsevier is selling abstracts to be used in third-party discovery services (this is me assuming there is a monetary transaction)
https://www.sspnet.org/community/news/cactus-and-elsevier-join-hands-to-bring-19m-elsevier-research-abstracts-to-researchers-mobile-devices
The same Elsevier that, unlike many other publishers*, does not make abstracts publicly available through @crossref
Some great strides have been made 2023 in providing abstracts through Crossref #openabstracts
In this @crossref
blogpost, I am highlighting some publishers (large and small) who contributed to this: I4OA Hall of Fame - 2023 edition
https://www.crossref.org/blog/i4oa-hall-of-fame-2023-edition/
The Initiative for Open Abstracts (I4OA) was launched in September 2020 to advocate and promote the unrestricted availability of the abstracts of the world’s scholarly publications, particularly journal articles and book chapters, in trusted repositories where they are open and machine-accessible. I4OA calls on all scholarly publishers to open the abstracts of their published works and, where possible, to submit them to Crossref.
Abstract coverage in @OpenAlex per year as a little étude in #Python.
The advantage of having an open and performant API with #OpenResearchinformation for quick investigations like can really not be overstated.
Bianca Kramer
hauschke
Nemo_bis 🌈