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