Must-read on surveillance publishing:

"A few companies with dominance over academic publishing have been able to capture and use surplus value created through the publishing lifecycle. This extraction—of academic labour, of data, of information—is reinvested into their proprietary data analytics products."

https://cjal.ca/index.php/capal/article/view/43293

#openscience #libraries

The Citation Economy as a Site of Extraction for Surveillance Publishing | Canadian Journal of Academic Librarianship

@brembs thx for the surveillance pub piece. also not sure i can take more stories like this one right now. 😰

@band

Those are truly evil corporations. I sympathize ❤️