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Publishers Ramp Up Pressure vs. Anna’s Archive, Sci-Hub, Z-Library & Libgen
#ThelatestnewsonAnna'sArchive #PublishersAssociation #SpringerNature #SiteBlocking #Anti-Piracy #Elsevier #sci-hub #libgen
torrentfreak.comPublishers Ramp Up Pressure vs. Anna's Archive, Sci-Hub, Z-Library & Libgen * TorrentFreakThe world’s major publishers claim that unlicensed libraries cast a permanent shadow over authors’ ability to make a living from their work. In common with the movie and movie industry counterparts, site-blocking is one of the weapons of choice, albeit against well-prepared opponents.
#OpenAccess deal between #SpringerNature and low and middle-income countries
https://opensocial.at/display/59c238fc-2067-9a5a-94ba-8be129119249
opensocial.at#OpenAccess deal between #SpringerNature and low and middle-income countriesGreat news in scholarly publishing: #SpringerNature has taken a significant step toward global equity by signing an agreement with low and middle-income coun...
WTF #springernature WTF Are we #scientists insane to keep this degenerated publishing system alive?
Would you pay to have #AI summarize and promote your research? Would you pay to prevent that from happening?
https://futurism.com/springer-nature-ai-media-kit
"#SpringerNature…is approaching the authors of papers in its journals with AI-generated "Media Kits" to summarize and promote their research. In an email to journal authors…Springer told the scientists that its AI tool will "maximize the impact" of their research, saying the $49 package will return "high-quality" outputs for marketing and communication purposes…[But] the tool's "high-quality" outputs can't always be trusted. On an accompanying webpage linked in the email, Springer warns that "even the best AI tools make mistakes" and urges authors to painstakingly review the AI's outputs and issue corrections as needed for accuracy and clarity."
Futurism · The Publisher of the Journal "Nature" Is Emailing Authors of Scientific Papers, Offering to Sell Them AI Summaries of Their Own Work
New study: "User tracking that would be unthinkable in a physical #library setting now happens routinely through #publisher #platforms."
https://zenodo.org/records/13886473
ZenodoNavigating Risk in Vendor Data Privacy Practices: An Analysis of Springer Nature's SpringerLinkNavigating Risk in Vendor Data Privacy Practices: An Analysis of Springer Nature's SpringerLink documents a variety of practices that undermine library privacy standards. SpringerLink provides a case study in the encroachment of the broader surveillance-based data brokering economy into academic systems. Combined with our 2023 report on Elsevier’s ScienceDirect platform, this analysis illustrates the wide range of privacy risks inherent in the business models and practices in the academic scholarship marketplace. Among other findings, the report documents risks related to the 200 named third parties that are allowed to collect information from users of the site (along with what appear to be additional unlisted companies found only in our public website analysis). While the specific privacy concerns posed by SpringerLink are different, our analysis reiterates the findings from our ScienceDirect report: that user tracking that would be unthinkable in a physical library setting now happens routinely through publisher platforms. While this analysis and recommended actions are grounded in the library context, these findings will raise pressing issues for faculty, administrators, and policymakers to consider as well. The report closes with suggested actions that libraries can take over both the short and long term to address vendor privacy risks.
If you ever thought Scientific Reports was a bit of a dodgy cash 
for Springer Nature....
Open letter from fraud sleuths raises concerns over research integrity at Scientific Reports | News | Chemistry World
Chemistry WorldOpen letter from fraud sleuths raises concerns over research integrity at Scientific ReportsSpringer Nature singled out over 'seriously flawed' peer review in journal
Heute hatten wir im Rahmen der 
#openscience Reihe von @dipf_aktuell und @leibnizopenscience die spannende Panel Diskussion zu „Perspektiven für die Finanzierung der #openaccess -Transformation in der #eduresearch“. Danke an das hochkarätige Panel mit den tollen Impulsvorträgen und für die rege Beteiligung. 
Hier liegen die Folien des einführenden Impulsvortrags: https://osf.io/tse9u Klinkhardt #SpringerNature @GeorgKrammer @peDOCS @FachportalPaedagogik #Erziehungswissenschaft
#Publikationsmanagement in der #OnePersonLibrary
Informationen zum #Börsengang von #SpringerNature
"So sollen die Tools etwa mit einer KI-gestützten Suche den gesamten, über 150 Jahre zusammengetragenen Wissensschatz der Verlagsgruppe analysieren können. Eine generative KI soll beim Verfassen wissenschaftlicher Publikationen helfen."
Forschende & #Informationsinfrastruktur im Kontext #Datatracking, #predatorypublishing, #KI, #OpenScience, #Informationsethik
www.handelsblatt.comHandelsblatt
#TIL Der kräftig verschuldete #SpringerNature-Verlag, der bisher zu 47% genau jener Investmentfirma gehörte, die als #Heuschrecken in den deutschen Sprachgebrauch einging, und der mich zuletzt mit seinem schrottreifen Autor*innen-Frontend in den Wahnsinn trieb, ist seit dieser Woche an der Börse.
Jetzt wird bestimmt alles besser!!1 
Springer Nature: Warum ein Fachverlag an die Börse geht
Ob "Nature" oder die "Ärztezeitung" - Springer Nature gehört mit seinen Publikationen zu den größten Wissenschaftsfachverlagen der Welt. Nun ist das Unternehmen an der Börse. Was will es dort? Von Alina Leimbach,
tagesschau.de · Springer Nature: Warum ein Fachverlag an die Börse geht
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Update. Here's another piece that made it through peer review (#Cureus / #SpringerNature) documenting the real problems of #APCs without mentioning the existence or prevalence of non-APC OA (#DiamondOA) journals.
https://www.cureus.com/articles/276986-increasing-importance-and-costs-associated-with-publishing-for-dermatology-residency-applicants#!/
The editors and peer reviewers also allowed this howler to stand: "The #GreenOA option does not charge an APC and is free for authors to publish but requires a subscription to the journal to read the article."
www.cureus.comIncreasing Importance and Costs Associated With Publishing for Dermatology Residency ApplicantsThe financial costs associated with publishing in academic journals have steadily risen in recent years, reflected by higher publishing fees and the emergence of open access (OA) publishing models. Research remains an essential part of academia and has special significance for residency applicants. Due to recent changes in some objective measures used to rank residency applicants, such as abandoning numerical United States Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE) Step 1 scores and transitioning pre-clinical grades to Pass/Fail, other objective measures have gained significance: in particular, the quality and quantity of research activities including manuscripts, abstracts, and presentations have become more important in residency applications. This has led to a significant increase in the reported number of research experiences and publications to more competitive specialties, including dermatology. Our study analyzes the current financial landscape of publishing in the field of dermatology and the financial burden placed on applicants as well as programs to meet the expected number of research experiences in order to successfully match into a dermatology residency. Through a comprehensive examination of 85 dermatology-based academic journals, we assess the costs and differences of publishing in OA and hybrid OA journals while also exploring potential avenues for mitigating the financial burden of publishing. Our findings indicate that while cost-effective options exist, the financial burden of article processing charges remains substantial.
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springer's assets are 2/3 the ownership of publicly funded information that should have no owner, and 1/3 the 'goodwill' valuation of its oligopoly share of volunteer labor as operationalized by the value of its brands.
it's a company made of nothing but the theft of the commons
Academic Journal #Publishers #Antitrust Litigation
Lieff CabraserAcademic Journal Publishers Antitrust LitigationAcademic Journal Publishers Antitrust Litigation On September 12, 2024, Lieff Cabraser and co-counsel at Justice Catalyst Law filed a federal antitrust lawsuit against six commercial publishers of academic journals, including Elsevier, Springer Nature, Taylor and Francis, Sage, Wiley, and Wolters Kluwer, on behalf of a proposed class of scientists and scholars
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2/ Here's the legal complaint.
https://www.lieffcabraser.com/pdf/AcademicPublicationsComplaintFinal.pdf
The plaintiff is Lucina Uddin (@lucinauddin), a professor of psychology at #UCLA.
The six publisher defendants are #Elsevier, #Sage, #SpringerNature, #TaylorAndFrancis, #Wiley, and #WoltersKluwer. Another defendant is the #STM_Association, a publisher trade organization.
There are also 50 individual defendants ("John Does 1 through 50”) whose names will be revealed later.
2024 is the fifth year after the start of the the Journal of Cheminformatics pilot for annotations using the Citation Typing Ontology. The approach is simple, compatible with the Springer Nature platform. SN could have made it fly. The uptake was promising, but not deemed a success. One problem was (even this year) the problematic production phase, where CiTO annotation is caught in many other problems there.
As early as next week #SpringerNature might file the papers needed to launch a European initial public offering (#IPO) later in the fall.
https://www.reuters.com/markets/europe/springer-nature-could-launch-ipo-soon-next-week-sources-say-2024-09-03/
Please help to prevent the shutdown of un.iversity.org. Since the closure has been announced by #SpringerNature for 1 Sept. 2024, urgent signatures needed
The educational platform un.iversity.org was created with public funds and has been available free of charge until now. Its closure has been announced for 1 September 2024. This needs to be prevented.
openPetitionHands Off the Only Free Teaching and Learning Platform for Students! - Online-PetitionThe educational platform un.iversity.org was created with public funds and has been available free of charge until now. Its closure has been announced for 1 September 2024. This needs to be prevented.