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yuls
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at home in philosophy and communication studies, familiar with scientific libraries, highly interested in open access, transformation of scientific practices, developments in academic publishing, tracking and surveilance of science, and a lot of other stuff
#openaccess #OpenScience #digitalhumanities #wissenschaftspolitik #ScholarlyCommunication
SPARCAn interoperable network of repositories is an essential component of our national research infrastructure, offering rapid & open access to research. It's critical to transform global research communications, leading to a more open, inclusive & equitable system. Learn more about the work of USRN! https://sparcopen.org/our-work/us-repository-network/
Harold JarcheRE: https://mstdn.ca/@teledyn/116652708401285794
"every single warning that paper made about large language models has now happened at scale"
1. The hallucination problem before anyone had a word for it.
2. Bias amplification
3. Environmental cost
4. Documentation — the training datasets being assembled were too large for anyone to actually audit
SPARC Financial Landscape Analysis 2026: Scholarly Publishing & Research Analytics Companies
The four largest companies in scholarly publishing and research data analytics—RELX, Springer Nature Group, Wiley, and Clarivate—reported strong financial performance between October 2024 and March 2026. Across nearly every measure, revenue grew, margins expanded, and cash flow increased. Yet share prices for all four fell significantly over the same period. When investors pay less per dollar of earnings despite improving results, it generally signals doubt about long-term prospects.SPARC’s analysis indicates that AI is the primary driver of the share price declines each company has seen over the past 18 months, despite strong underlying financial performance. In contrast to the external AI infrastructure providers they now rely on, these companies have kept their capital expenditures flat or reduced them, instead returning capital to shareholders through stock buybacks and dividends. Market analysts expect these companies will face risks related to their reliance on AI providers and the cost pressure that could create.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@bsletten/116681431177425970
🤣 the picture is still too optimistic. the toilet bowl should be transparent, too
Open Access Tracking ProjectCosts of scolarly publishing 2025 | National Library of Sweden https://www.kb.se/for-bibliotekssektorn/eng/news-from-the-national-library/news/2026-06-01-costs-of-scolarly-publishing-2025.html
Costs of scolarly publishing 2025
The National Library of Sweden (Kungliga biblioteket, KB) compiles Swedish higher education institutions’ expenditures for scholarly publishing – that is, costs for subscriptions, publishing research articles, and purchasing scholarly literature. For 2025, these costs amounted to SEK 819 million, an increase of just approximately 1,6 per cent from the previous year.
404 MediaThe API would make IRS data available to any app the agency wishes. The Criminal Investigation arm of the IRS is also modernizing its own systems.
https://www.404media.co/here-is-the-contract-for-palantirs-super-api-for-the-irs/
surprise, surprise - another major step in the "market"-concentration https://newsroom.wiley.com/press-releases/press-release-details/2026/Wiley-Acquires-Emerald-Expanding-Research-Scale-and-Deepening-Proprietary-Content-Across-the-AI-Driven-Knowledge-Economy/default.aspx #openaccess #bigfive #deal
Wiley Acquires Emerald, Expanding Research Scale and Deepening Proprietary Content Across the AI-Driven Knowledge Economy
Meaningfully expands Wiley’s journal portfolio to ~2,500 titles and establishes category leadership across economics, business, finance, and the social sciences All-cash transaction valued at ~7x Adjusted EBITDA (including targeted cost synergies); expected to be accretive to Adjusted EPS in year one Wiley (NYSE: WLY), a global leader in authoritative content and research intelligence, today announced it has acquired Emerald Publishing Limited (“Emerald”) from Cambridge Information Group (CIG) in an all-cash transaction valued at £337 million, or USD 452 million. The acquisition expands Wiley’s journal portfolio to approximately 2,500 titles and establishes it as a leader in the social sciences — particularly economics, business, and finance. In addition to strengthening Wiley's scale advantage in Research, the acquisition deepens Wiley’s proprietary content position for use in AI and data analytics, at a moment when demand for trusted peer-reviewed research content is accelerating
petersuber#LarryEllison on the new #SocialCreditSystem:
"Citizens will be on their best behavior, because we’re constantly recording and reporting everything that is going on."
https://www.techradar.com/pro/quote-of-the-day-by-oracle-co-founder-larry-ellison-citizens-will-be-on-their-best-behavior-because-were-constantly-recording-and-reporting-everything-that-is-going-on-a-dire-warning-on-the-erosion-of-privacy
Ellison is talking about #AI, not necessarily in conjunction with #Oracle. "[The] world that Ellison describes revolves around AI technologies processing huge amounts of video footage from the explosion of cameras in the streets, cars, front doors, and even police officers. AI will, he added, automatically report issues that it detects while it's analyzing footage captured in real time."
Quote of the day by Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison: "Citizens will be on their best behavior, because we’re constantly recording and reporting everything that is going on" — a dire warning on the erosion of privacy
Legendary technologist Larry Ellison has outlined a vision for an increasingly aggressive surveillance state in the 21st century
very dark patterns in US health care system "The privacy notice literally describes “Say No Thanks” as a choice, but doesn’t let me pick it." #privacy #surveillancecapitalism #healthcare #dataProtection