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Nemo_bis 🌈Today in how <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/Elsevier" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Elsevier</a> ruins my mood: Pure repositories pollute <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/Unpaywall" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Unpaywall</a> with garbage data. <a href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T396127" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T396127</a> <a href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T396126" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T396126</a><a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/OAbot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OAbot</a> <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/GreenOA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GreenOA</a> <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/OpenAccess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OpenAccess</a>

Nemo_bis 🌈Why does <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/DOAJ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DOAJ</a> have abstracts for articles which are closed access (nonfreely licensed and paywalled)?<a href="https://doaj.org/article/13b03a41fdac43c0b6772f0d7be22ccb" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://doaj.org/article/13b03a41fdac43c0b6772f0d7be22ccb</a> (doi:10.1016/j.nbd.2016.07.010, <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/GreenOA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GreenOA</a> at <a href="http://hdl.handle.net/10138/311483" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">http://hdl.handle.net/10138/311483</a>)This is an article published in 2017 in an <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/Elsevier" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Elsevier</a> journal which in 2020 professed to turn "<a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/OpenAccess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OpenAccess</a>". <a href="https://doaj.org/toc/1095-953X" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://doaj.org/toc/1095-953X</a>

Craig Aaen Stockdale<a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/EltonJohn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EltonJohn</a> is right about <a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AI</a>, but for scientists it’s already too late because <a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/Elsevier" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Elsevier</a> and <a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/SpringerNature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SpringerNature</a> have already used our original works to train <a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/ScopusAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ScopusAI</a> and <a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/Curie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Curie</a> (Marie Sklodowska-Curie is also presumably turning in her grave about her name being stolen too).<a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/scholarlyPublishing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#scholarlyPublishing</a>

Calishat<a href="https://researchbuzz.masto.host/tags/Elsevier" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Elsevier</a> <a href="https://researchbuzz.masto.host/tags/research" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#research</a> <a href="https://researchbuzz.masto.host/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#science</a> <a href="https://researchbuzz.masto.host/tags/publishing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#publishing</a> 'Scopus indexed Science of Law in July 2024. According to its profile in the database, the journal is published by the “Editorial Team of SoL.” However, “the editorial team” and many members of the editorial board are fake names and that such individuals do not actually exist. '<a href="https://retractionwatch.com/2025/05/16/scopus-indexed-journal-science-of-law-fake-editorial-board-sham-archive/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://retractionwatch.com/2025/05/16/scopus-indexed-journal-science-of-law-fake-editorial-board-sham-archive/</a>

Ross MounceRafael Luque in the news again... <a href="https://cen.acs.org/people/Russia-honors-chemist-suspended-Spain/103/web/2025/05" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://cen.acs.org/people/Russia-honors-chemist-suspended-Spain/103/web/2025/05</a> No mention of Elsevier's role in his prodigious output 🤷‍♂️ <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Elsevier" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Elsevier</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ScienceFraud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ScienceFraud</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Russia</a>

Zelestian PhD memes<a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/scihub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#scihub</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/elsevier" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#elsevier</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/papers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#papers</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/articles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#articles</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/phdstudent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#phdstudent</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/doctoratestudent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#doctoratestudent</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/phd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#phd</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/doctorate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#doctorate</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/motivation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#motivation</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/meme" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#meme</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/memes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#memes</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/phdmotivation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#phdmotivation</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/phdmeme" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#phdmeme</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/phdmemes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#phdmemes</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/phdlife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#phdlife</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/phdstudentlife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#phdstudentlife</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/phdtroll" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#phdtroll</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/doctoratemotivation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#doctoratemotivation</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/doctoratememe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#doctoratememe</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/doctoratememes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#doctoratememes</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/doctoratelife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#doctoratelife</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/doctoratestudentlife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#doctoratestudentlife</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/doctoratetroll" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#doctoratetroll</a>

Ross MouncePublish with Elsevier at your peril...“Williams-Hoffman was surprised to discover that the online version of the paper contained an AI-generated question and answer section immediately below the abstract. She was even more surprised to read its claim that the paper was based on just three measurements, not 51. “<a href="https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/ai-summary-trashed-authors-work-and-took-weeks-be-corrected" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/ai-summary-trashed-authors-work-and-took-weeks-be-corrected</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Elsevier" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Elsevier</a>

Craig Aaen StockdaleRest in Power <a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/VirginiaGiuffre" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#VirginiaGiuffre</a> - It took some guts to take on the people you accused and win.Remember that <a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/ghislainemaxwell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ghislainemaxwell</a> who helped <a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/jeffreyepstein" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#jeffreyepstein</a> sell Virginia into slavery moved in such rarified circles (that included scum like <a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/PrinceAndrew" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PrinceAndrew</a> and <a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/DonaldTrump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DonaldTrump</a>) because of her dad’s insanely profitable business in <a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/scholarlyPublishing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#scholarlyPublishing</a>. Pergamon Press is now owned by <a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/Elsevier" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Elsevier</a><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pergamon_Press" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pergamon_Press</a>

Robert W. GehlThis from a company making billions off the free labour of academics:<a href="https://ukrant.nl/magazine/elseviers-stranglehold-on-academia-how-publishers-get-rich-from-our-data/?lang=en" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://ukrant.nl/magazine/elseviers-stranglehold-on-academia-how-publishers-get-rich-from-our-data/?lang=en</a>2/2<a href="https://aoir.social/tags/academicChatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#academicChatter</a> <a href="https://aoir.social/tags/elsevier" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#elsevier</a>

Stefan Müller :verified:<a href="https://climatejustice.social/@thorsten4future" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@thorsten4future</a> Wenn der Kapitalismus allen die Luft abschnührt, merken vielleicht doch manche was.Ich erinnere mich noch an eine Mail des Bibliothek-Chefs in Bremen aus dem Jahr 2003 mit der Betreffzeiel: Das <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Elsevier" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Elsevier</a>-Trauma.Seit dem ist alles nur noch schlimmer geworden.

Stefan Müller :verified:Ganz genau! Macht einfach nicht mehr mit. Gründet die Zeitschriften neu und macht alles eigenverantwortlich. Dafür braucht man kein <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Elsevier" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Elsevier</a> oder <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Springer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Springer</a> oder <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Wiley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Wiley</a> mehr. Arbeitet nicht für die, weder als Autor*innen noch als Gutachter*innen.<a href="https://www.faz.net/aktuell/wissen/geist-soziales/die-wissenschaft-und-das-publikationswesen-tretet-zurueck-110288404.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.faz.net/aktuell/wissen/geist-soziales/die-wissenschaft-und-das-publikationswesen-tretet-zurueck-110288404.html</a>Die <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Linguistik" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Linguistik</a> hat das zum Teil schon geschafft.<a href="https://www.faz.net/aktuell/wissen/geist-soziales/die-wissenschaft-und-das-publikationswesen-tretet-zurueck-110288404.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.faz.net/aktuell/wissen/geist-soziales/die-wissenschaft-und-das-publikationswesen-tretet-zurueck-110288404.html</a>

In the DarkResearchFish AgainOne of the things I definitely don’t miss about working in the UK university system is the dreaded Researchfish. If you’ve never heard of this bit of software, it’s intended to collect data relating to the outputs of research grants funded by the various Research Councils. That’s not an unreasonable thing to want to do, of course, but the interface is – or at least was when I last used it several years ago – extremely clunky and user-unfriendly. That meant that, once a year, along with other academics with research grants (in my case from STFC) I had to waste hours uploading bibliometric and other data by hand. A sensible system would have harvested this automatically as it is mostly available online at various locations or allowed users simply to upload their own publication list as a file; most of us keep an up-to-date list of publications for various reasons (including vanity!) anyway. Institutions also keep track of all this stuff independently. All this duplication seemed utterly pointless.I always wondered what happened to the information I uploaded every year, which seemed to disappear without trace into the bowels of RCUK. I assume it was used for something, but mere researchers were never told to what purpose. I guess it was used to assess the performance of researchers in some way.When I left the UK in 2018 to work full-time in Ireland, I took great pleasure in ignoring the multiple emails demanding that I do yet another Researchfish upload. The automated reminders turned into individual emails threatening that I would never again be eligible for funding if I didn’t do it, to which I eventually replied that I wouldn’t be applying for UK research grants anymore anyway. So there. Eventually the emails stopped.Then, about three years ago, ResearchFish went from being merely pointless to downright sinister as a scandal erupted about the company that operates it (called Infotech), involving the abuse of data and the bullying of academics. I wrote about this <a href="https://telescoper.blog/2022/04/19/the-researchfish-scandal/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">here</a>. It <a href="https://telescoper.blog/2022/05/19/the-researchfish-saga-continues/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">then transpired</a> that UKRI, the umbrella organization governing the UK’s research council had been actively conniving with Infotech to target critics. An inquiry was promised but I don’t know what became of that.Anyway, all that was a while ago and I neither longer live nor work in the UK so why mention ResearchFish again, now?The reason is something that shocked me when I found out about it a few days ago. <a href="https://researchfish.com/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Researchfish</a> is now operated by commercial publishing house Elsevier.Words fail. I can’t be the only person to see a gigantic conflict of interest. How can a government agency allow the assessment of its research outputs to be outsourced to a company that profits hugely by the publication of those outputs? There’s a phrase in British English which I think is in fairly common usage: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marking_your_own_homework" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">marking your own homework</a>. This relates to individuals or organizations who have been given the responsibility for regulating their own products. Is very apt here.The acquisition of Researchfish isn’t the only example of Elsevier getting its talons stuck into academia life. Elsevier also “runs” the bibliometric service <a href="https://www.scopus.com/home.uri" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Scopus</a> which it markets as a sort of quality indicator for academic articles. I put “runs” in inverted commas because Scopus is hopelessly inaccurate and unreliable. I can certainly speak from experience on that. Nevertheless, Elsevier has managed to dupe research managers – clearly not the brightest people in the world – into thinking that Scopus is a quality product. I suppose the more you pay for something the less inclined you are to doubt its worth, because if you do find you have paid worthless junk you look like an idiot.A few days ago I posted a piece that include this excerpt from an <a href="https://www.wired.com/story/inside-arxiv-most-transformative-code-science/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">article in Wired</a>:<blockquote>Every industry has certain problems universally acknowledged as broken: insurance in health care, licensing in music, standardized testing in education, tipping in the restaurant business. In academia, it’s publishing. Academic publishing is dominated by for-profit giants like Elsevier and Springer. Calling their practice a form of thuggery isn’t so much an insult as an economic observation. </blockquote>With the steady encroachment of the likes of Elsevier into research assessment, it is clear that as well as raking in huge profits, the thugs are now also assuming the role of the police. The academic publishing industry is a monstrous juggernaut that is doing untold damage to research and is set to do more. It has to stop.<a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://telescoper.blog/tag/bibliometrics/" target="_blank">#bibliometrics</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://telescoper.blog/tag/elsevier/" target="_blank">#Elsevier</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://telescoper.blog/tag/infotech/" target="_blank">#Infotech</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://telescoper.blog/tag/research-assessment/" target="_blank">#ResearchAssessment</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://telescoper.blog/tag/researchfish/" target="_blank">#Researchfish</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://telescoper.blog/tag/scopus/" target="_blank">#SCOPUS</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://telescoper.blog/tag/ukri/" target="_blank">#UKRI</a>

tschenkelI appreciate the irony in my university inviting me to a workshop on Ethics in Scientific Publishing, hosted by Elsevier.<a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/publishing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#publishing</a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#science</a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/elsevier" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#elsevier</a>

Stefan Müller :verified:<a href="https://machteburch.social/@tomkalei" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@tomkalei</a> Du hast die <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Linguistik" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Linguistik</a> vergessen. Die sind fast ok. Wir haben Teile, die wie Mathe ohnehin selbst LaTeX machen, weshalb das einfacher ist als in den restlichen Geisteswissenschaften.Wir haben einen großen Verlag, der Diamond OpenAccess ist (weder Leser*innen noch Autor*innen zahlen) und wir haben die ganzen Journals von den Societies, die OA anbieten oder OA sind.Zum Beispiel die Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft von der <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/DGfS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DGfS</a> ist auch DiamondOA, <a href="https://hcommons.social/@glossa" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@glossa</a> gibt es international. Die haben sich vom <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Elsevier" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Elsevier</a>-Zeitschrift <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Lingua" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Lingua</a> neu gegründet.Ihr müsst nur die Herausgeber-Boards dazu bringen, die Zeitschriften neu zu gründen. Scholar-owned. Die Marken müssen bei uns bleiben. Verstehe auch nicht, wieso Mathematiker*innen sich für diese Boards hergeben. Die <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Mathematik" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Mathematik</a> war ja Vorreiter.„Ganz am Ende (manchmal Jahre später) hat man dann seinen Verlagsbienchenstempel "Dein Paper wurde bei Famous Journal akzeptiert" und dann posten die das nochmal nur mit hässlicherem Typesetting, neu eingebauten Tippfehlern und ganz und gar nicht accessible unter einer URL die sich jederzeit ändern kann. Von Permalinks hat da noch nie jemand was gehört, da muss dann die DOI her.“Du, die haben Jahrhunderte Erfahrung!Aber genau so ist es. Was da für Zeit verplämpert wird für Proofreading usw. Die schicken das nach Indien, wo alle Symbole kaputt gemacht werden. Die Menschen vom Handbuch <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Semantik" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Semantik</a> können Lieder davon singen. Das sind enorme Kosten, die wir tragen (bzw. die Steuerzahler*innen), damit die Verlage sich das einstecken können.

Ankur Sinha "FranciscoD"If you're using a <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/QT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#QT</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Webengine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Webengine</a> based browser like me (<a href="https://fosstodon.org/@qutebrowser" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@qutebrowser</a> or <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Falkon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Falkon</a>), <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Elsevier" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Elsevier</a> 's <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/ScienceDirect" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ScienceDirect</a> website may cause issues because they "only support the last 3 releases" of most browsers. Luckily, they use the user agent to detect the browser. So, a workaround is to use something like this, with a new enough version for the <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Chrome" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Chrome</a> version:Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) QtWebEngine/6.8.2 Chrome/132.0.0.0 Safari/537.36<a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/AcademicChatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AcademicChatter</a>

Mario AngstWe've got a new annual report by RELX (the company running <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Elsevier" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Elsevier</a>). <a href="https://www.relx.com/media/press-releases/year-2025/annual-report-2024" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.relx.com/media/press-releases/year-2025/annual-report-2024</a>The profit margins continue to be absurd. It just escapes me how we can be fine as researchers with throwing public money at these companies.<a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/scientificpublishing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#scientificpublishing</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#academia</a>

John LeonardThe use of AI to create bogus scientific papers is becoming an increasingly serious problem, researchers say, threatening life-saving medical research as well as the integrity of academic publishing.<a href="https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2025/ai/ai-enabled-fakery-has-infiltrated-academic-publishing-say-researchers" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2025/ai/ai-enabled-fakery-has-infiltrated-academic-publishing-say-researchers</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/technews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#technews</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/vegetativeelectronmicroscopy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#vegetativeelectronmicroscopy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ai</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fraud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fraud</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/elsevier" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#elsevier</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/springer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#springer</a>

Jorge SaturnoJust refused another review request for <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Elsevier" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Elsevier</a>. The company is actively collaborating with the fossil fuel industry. This is something we cannot tolerate any longer. <a href="https://stopelsevier.wordpress.com/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://stopelsevier.wordpress.com/</a>

Jonathan TownsonI’ve used Mendeley since I was an undergrad, but the bugs have worn me down and I want to switch. I think Zotero looks to be the best place to go next?Now I just need to overcome the rage (and effort barrier) that I can’t transfer the library structure from Mendeley in one go, thanks for that Elsevier…<a href="https://biologists.social/tags/Academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Academia</a> <a href="https://biologists.social/tags/ReferenceManager" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ReferenceManager</a> <a href="https://biologists.social/tags/Mendeley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Mendeley</a> <a href="https://biologists.social/tags/Zotero" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Zotero</a> <a href="https://biologists.social/tags/Elsevier" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Elsevier</a>

Djoerd Hiemstra 🟥Three British universities (including the University of Sheffield ) have decided not to continue their <a href="https://idf.social/tags/Elsevier" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Elsevier</a> read-and-publish deals! <a href="https://idf.social/tags/OpenAccess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OpenAccess</a> <a href="https://www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?story=20250211161002365" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?story=20250211161002365</a>

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