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#taylorandfrancis

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François Renaville 🇺🇦🇪🇺

"Between 2019/20 and 2022/23, the University [of Cambridge] paid £12.6M to seven major commercial #publishers: #Elsevier, #Wiley, Taylor & Francis, #Springer, #Sage, Oxford University Press (#OUP), and Cambridge University Press (#CUP). This was the highest expenditure among 21 UK #universities that provided data."

varsity.co.uk/news/29280

Varsity OnlineCambridge spends over £12M on academic journal accessCambridge has spent more than any other UK university on academic journal subscriptions
#science#journals#publishing
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petersuber

2/ Here's the legal complaint.
lieffcabraser.com/pdf/Academic

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.

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Peter Kahlert

#Microsoft just might have purchased access to your research to train their #genAI models.

Msc, MA, or else, you just joined our friends, the artists, in becoming some soup without agency producing raw material for some factory to suck up and pollute everywhere, as T&F sold your work to Microsoft. Enjoy.

If you're a researcher you are used to pay for gold OA. You are used to do reviews for free and of course the papers you write are free, too. To pass editorial selection you basically need to connect to already published papers of the outlet. You always have to go all in for some publisher to profit off of your work, basically stealing public money. So that is just another lovely flower in the garden of academic publishing.

I would say: go green OA but whatever license you use they are going steal your work anyway.

thebookseller.com/news/academi

The BooksellerAcademic authors 'shocked' after Taylor & Francis sells access to their research to Microsoft AIAuthors claim they have not been told about the AI deal, were not given the opportunity to opt out and are receiving no extra payment.
#TaylorAndFrancis#academia
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Robert W. Gehl

Latest #FOSSAcademic, in which I talk a bit more about #TaylorAndFrancis selling off academic work to #Microsoft, and I share a link to my #IETF presentation on #ActivityPub:

fossacademic.tech/2024/07/25/A

[Replies to this post will appear as comments on my blog, unless you set privacy to followers-only or DM. CWs will work]

FOSS Academic · Hitting a Nerve and Presenting at IETFNothing major this month, but I do want to note two things. First, I wrote a post on the fediverse that must have hit a nerve. It’s about corporations selling off academic work to AI companies. Second, I presented research to a panel at the IETF, talking about the development of ActivityPub by the W3C’s Social Web Working Group. The presentation is based on my forthcoming book.
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Robert W. Gehl

I said it before, I'll say it again and again: I don't consent to this. I get nothing, absolutely nothing for it, while corporations make bank on my work and the work of my colleagues.

I will never ever use whatever dumbass tool Microsoft or #TaylorandFrancis will make. I won't learn anything from their tools, which will only ever be derivative garbage, and now my work is fuelling the climate crisis all the more so my kid will suffer, too.

(to say I'm angry about this is an understatement.)

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petersuber

Props to the African Journal of Herpetology for criticizing its publisher, #TaylorAndFrancis, for setting an exorbitantly high #APC.
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10

"Indeed, African Journal of Herpetology APC is set by its publisher, Taylor & Francis, and is beyond the control of the Herpetological Association of Africa. The APC makes this the most expensive herpetology subject journal globally, resulting in potential authors seeking other venues for their work."

#Africa#APCs#SocietyJournals
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JulietJFall

The tense negotiations between Swiss universities & major private academic publishers continues, with a no-deal situation between SwissUniversities, Elsevier and Taylor&Francis starting from 1st January. The budgets involved are insane and we urgently need new models for sharing public-funded research results. It’s just nuts.

More info here: swissuniversities.ch/en/themen

Screenshot from email sent to colleagues in the University of Geneva about the ongoing situation. See link for readable text.
#openAccess#Elsevier#scientificpublishing
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petersuber

Update. Here are some of my own past calls (2018-2020) for the EC specs to require that #OpenResearchEurope (#ORE) be #OpenSource.
twitter.com/petersuber/status/

EC awarded the ORE contract to #F1000 in March 2020.
research-and-innovation.ec.eur

#TaylorAndFrancis had acquired F1000 in January 2020.
newsroom.taylorandfrancisgroup

X (formerly Twitter)Peter Suber (@petersuber@fediscience.org) (@petersuber) on X1/ The EC awarded the contract to build Open Research Europe (#ORE) to @F1000 / @F1000Research. https://t.co/B91o4ALaQ4
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petersuber

The #EuropeanCommission is finally considering whether "#OpenSource software (#OSS)…can be used as a foundation for developing the new #publishing platform" for EC-funded #OpenAccess research.
op.europa.eu/en/publication-de

Unfortunately, the new software would merely "underpin" #OpenResearchEurope (#ORE), not replace it. ORE is proprietary software owned by #TaylorAndFrancis. When the EC called for bids on ORE, it did not require open code despite many calls to do so.

Publications Office of the EUAnalysis of the requirements for the Open Source infrastructure of the Open Research Europe Publishing Platform - Publications Office of the EUDetails of the publication
#FLOSS#OpenInfrastructure
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petersuber

Congratulations to the 𝘙𝘦𝘷𝘪𝘦𝘸 𝘰𝘧 𝘈𝘧𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘗𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘌𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘰𝘮𝘺 (#ROAPE) for leaving #TaylorAndFrancis and converting to #OpenAccess.
roape.net/2023/03/21/roape-in-

h/t Leslie Chan.

ROAPE - The Review of the African Political Economy · ROAPE in 2024 – an end and a new beginning - ROAPEThe Review of African Political Economy is delighted to announce that from 2024 all our work will be available on a single platform with no paywalls. There will be equal access for all researchers, activists, and readers, wherever they are based in the world, and for the foreseeable future. We passionately believe that the future for radical publications like ROAPE is genuine open access with no paywalls, or any barriers to access controlled by corporations and giant publishing houses.
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petersuber

All 47 editors of #TaylorAndFrancis' _Critical Public Health_ just resigned to protest the journal's high #APC and launch a new, more affordable #OpenAccess journal.
cphn.net/breaking-news/

T&F required an APC of £2700, "an unsustainable cost for…funders and…libraries in high income countries and an impossible cost for many in less advantaged countries."

See the #OpenAccessDirectory list of similar journal Declarations of Independence.
oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/Journa

#ScholComm

🧵

CPHNBREAKING NEWS – Editorial resignation and new Journal of Critical Public Health establishedBy ewencphn
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Dieter Reinisch

My new #book "Irish Republican Counterpublic: Armed Struggle and the Construction of a Radical Nationalist Community in #northernireland, 1969-1998" (Routledge Taylor & Francis Group), co-edited with the wonderful Anne Kane, and contributions by Lorenzo Bosi, Paddy Hoey, and others), has finally arrived. #BookWorm #booklover #books #buch #Ireland #irland #Nordirland #buecher #buecherwurm #routledge #routledgebooks #tandf #taylorandfrancis #history #socialmovement #socialmovements #sociology

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Craig Aaen Stockdale

4/ To reiterate, none of us believe that #PredatoryPublishing is a useful concept and it is often used as a stick with which to beat #OpenAccess publishers, while subscription dinosaurs like #Elsevier, #Sage, #Wiley, #TaylorAndFrancis and #Springer get a free pass. However, it seemed to us like we had all run out of patience with #MDPI and when @gemmaderrick and @bart announced they were resigning, we stepped down in solidarity with a reminder to publishers that a journal is "simply a name."

Resignation letter from 26 members of the editorial board of the journal Publications.
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Tuomas Tammisto

I have been opposed to the for-profit academic publishing model for a long-time. #Elsevier, #Springer, #TaylorAndFrancis etc. are mere rent-extractors. It is a deeply unethical industry. And that's why I volunteer for a non-profit #OpenAccess journal.

But I did not know Elsevier and T&F were so actively advancing the #FossilFuel industry—in an era of #ClimateCrisis.

All the more reason to #StopElsevier!

Publish in your community managed OA journal instead!
theguardian.com/environment/20

The Guardian · Revealed: leading climate research publisher helps fuel oil and gas drillingBy Amy Westervelt
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