Bianca KramerNov 21, 2024

We are seeing increased commodification of abstracts - perhaps not surprising given their importance in GenAI.

In 2022, SpringerNature had abstracts from
'their' non-open access articles removed from @OpenAlex

Now Elsevier appears to have done the same.

https://github.com/ourresearch/openalex-guts/commit/b85b3bc77cf9c0f3bd162426a2ba0dacdc951065

Needless to say, neither provide abstracts for these articles to @crossref either: https://i4oa.org/#:~:text=The%20following%20figure.

Is this how open we want research abstracts to be?

#openmetadata #openabstracts
#barcelonadeclaration

do not store closed elsevier abstract · ourresearch/openalex-guts@b85b3bc

The guts for computing data for OpenAlex. For more, see https://openalex.org/. - do not store closed elsevier abstract · ourresearch/openalex-guts@b85b3bc

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Show threadEric ScharesNov 21, 2024
@MsPhelps @OpenAlex @crossref Does this affect the “inverted abstract” that OpenAlex offers? That’s at least a way for papers to be found when doing a keyword search.
Show threadChristof Schöch

@eschares @MsPhelps @OpenAlex @crossref That is a very good question.

And the whole thing is a tale to teach us not to provide all that data to publishers anymore other than in a Diamond Open Access context (or if need be in APC-based Open Access, but with an irrevocable open licence in any case)!

Nov 21, 2024 at 2:09pmWeb
Show threadTanguy FardetNov 21, 2024
@christof
Exactly! And for that we need science institutions and well established researchers to help push this trend forward, since, as for so many other things, we cannot put that burden on individuals who may not be able to afford doing so for career or financial reasons.
@eschares @MsPhelps @OpenAlex @crossref
Show threadBianca KramerNov 21, 2024

@christof @eschares @OpenAlex @crossref

To answer Eric's question: yes, it's about the inverted abstract index in OpenAlex.

That was a clever way Microsoft Academic also used to present abstracts as only separate words and word order.