We could applaud #TaylorAndFrancis for pausing submissions at a journal that seems to be publishing a lot of fraudulent papers. Or we could ask why it waited until now.
https://www.science.org/content/article/journal-plagued-problematic-papers-likely-paper-mills-pauses-submissions
(#paywalled)
"Out of a sample of nearly 900 papers _Bioengineered_ published from 𝟮𝟬𝟭𝟬 through 2023, one-quarter showed signs of image manipulation or duplication." (Emphasis added.)
AI Translation Sparks Backlash from Translators and Authors: Self-Publishing News with Dan Holloway
Another week, more AI angst. While the Meta AI scandal is not going away any time soon, this week it is AI translation that’s causing the issues—specifically, academic publishing giant Taylor & Francis’s decision to use AI translation…
https://selfpublishingadvice.org/ai-translation/
#AITranslation #copyrightconcerns #ElonMuskxAI #OpenAIimagegenerator #TaylorAndFrancis
@indieauthors
"Between 2019/20 and 2022/23, the University [of Cambridge] paid £12.6M to seven major commercial #publishers: #Elsevier, #Wiley, Taylor & Francis, #Springer, #Sage, Oxford University Press (#OUP), and Cambridge University Press (#CUP). This was the highest expenditure among 21 UK #universities that provided data."
We care about your privacy!
At Taylor & Francis, we really do! That's why we have no less than 874 partners that just need to get notified when you want to read one of our journal articles!
#privacy #cookies #partners #TaylorAndFrancis #scammers #AcademicPublishing
2/ Here's the legal complaint.
https://www.lieffcabraser.com/pdf/AcademicPublicationsComplaintFinal.pdf
The plaintiff is Lucina Uddin (@lucinauddin), a professor of psychology at #UCLA.
The six publisher defendants are #Elsevier, #Sage, #SpringerNature, #TaylorAndFrancis, #Wiley, and #WoltersKluwer. Another defendant is the #STM_Association, a publisher trade organization.
There are also 50 individual defendants ("John Does 1 through 50”) whose names will be revealed later.
#Microsoft just might have purchased access to your research to train their #genAI models.
Msc, MA, or else, you just joined our friends, the artists, in becoming some soup without agency producing raw material for some factory to suck up and pollute everywhere, as T&F sold your work to Microsoft. Enjoy.
If you're a researcher you are used to pay for gold OA. You are used to do reviews for free and of course the papers you write are free, too. To pass editorial selection you basically need to connect to already published papers of the outlet. You always have to go all in for some publisher to profit off of your work, basically stealing public money. So that is just another lovely flower in the garden of academic publishing.
I would say: go green OA but whatever license you use they are going steal your work anyway.
Latest #FOSSAcademic, in which I talk a bit more about #TaylorAndFrancis selling off academic work to #Microsoft, and I share a link to my #IETF presentation on #ActivityPub:
https://fossacademic.tech/2024/07/25/ASM-update.html
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Nothing major this month, but I do want to note two things. First, I wrote a post on the fediverse that must have hit a nerve. It’s about corporations selling off academic work to AI companies. Second, I presented research to a panel at the IETF, talking about the development of ActivityPub by the W3C’s Social Web Working Group. The presentation is based on my forthcoming book.
I said it before, I'll say it again and again: I don't consent to this. I get nothing, absolutely nothing for it, while corporations make bank on my work and the work of my colleagues.
I will never ever use whatever dumbass tool Microsoft or #TaylorandFrancis will make. I won't learn anything from their tools, which will only ever be derivative garbage, and now my work is fuelling the climate crisis all the more so my kid will suffer, too.
(to say I'm angry about this is an understatement.)
TIL: ethics are yet again demonstrated to be a low priority for large academic publishers when there’s money to be made by looking the other way... 😔
“Are Academic Publishers Ignoring the Theft of Ukrainian Fossils?” https://undark.org/2024/04/25/opinion-academic-publishers-ukrainian-fossils-theft/
#SpringerNature #TaylorAndFrancis #academicchatter
#fossils
#WheresTheValueAddHere
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