Good summary of how much influence #Elsevier has on the entire academic ecosystem:
fediscience.org/@WiseWoman/113…

"Publishing is no longer the main focus for RELX and its competitors; instead, they have become data brokers. They sell data to insurance companies for risk analysis, to banks for fraud detection, to universities to assess their performance, and, especially egregious, to the US Immigration Service to target illegal immigrants. "

(RELX is the parent company of Elsevier)
Thank you @WiseWoman for sharing!
#Academia #Publishers

Debora Weber-Wulff

2024-11-09 12:32:50

Publishers exploit our data: Elsevier's stranglehold on acadamic publishing:

ukrant.nl/magazine/elseviers-s…

#AcademicChatter

Elsevier’s stranglehold on academia: How publishers get rich off our data

Academic publishers get rich collecting and then selling data from researchers. That is extremely concerning, say UG researchers.

^UKrant.nl