2026-04-25T11:18:42Z https://yabu.me Ross Mounce https://yabu.me/npub1uyr4fgmcwjzs0aeqy8krplpw4s887qaeagcvgx0pczhmq2tn3zlslt240f https://files.mastodon.social/accounts/avatars/108/131/604/772/356/656/original/e32960110f760270.jpg https://files.mastodon.social/accounts/avatars/108/131/604/772/356/656/original/e32960110f760270.jpg https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsgqurfjk22k6h6qmqt77r5ukzxhx3wk4c5zd5mmxg5v38jekpep8szyrssw49r0p6g2plhyqs7cv8u96kqulcrh84rp3qeu8q2lvpfwwyt7z0s425 Given all the news about ICE in the past few weeks, can I kindly remind you all that RELX (owners of Elsevier &amp; LexisNexis) is &#34;mission-critical&#34; to ICE.<br/><br/>ICE pays RELX Group and Thomson Reuters millions of dollars for the personal data it needs to fuel its big data policing program.<br/><br/><a href="https://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2019/ice-surveillance/">https://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2019/ice-surveillance/</a> <br/><br/>see also the book &#39;Data Cartels&#39; (2022) by Sarah Lamdan.<br/><br/>#Elsevier #RELX #ICE #complicity 2026-01-22T09:57:50Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs9ygtzx3jk8mera3tykmhhdlrsq38qmpmg5syey9whg89ujxs76xgzyrssw49r0p6g2plhyqs7cv8u96kqulcrh84rp3qeu8q2lvpfwwyt7a4ndxt Oxford and Harvard libraries now publishing their own diamond open access journals. Love it. ❤️ <br/><br/>Paying hundreds of millions to big commercial publishers isn&#39;t the only way of supporting researchers to publish their research. <br/><br/>Oxford: <a href="https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/shox#collapse5381526">https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/shox#collapse5381526</a><br/><br/>Harvard: <a href="https://library.harvard.edu/about/news/2024-04-23/harvard-library-launching-harvard-open-journals-program">https://library.harvard.edu/about/news/2024-04-23/harvard-library-launching-harvard-open-journals-program</a> <br/><br/>#DiamondOA #OpenAccess 2025-11-10T11:58:25Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsv3skrsv8f7z96d8rnfflxjcgxtf498rqgqwm2w7rwq7y06770t4czyrssw49r0p6g2plhyqs7cv8u96kqulcrh84rp3qeu8q2lvpfwwyt777agta Elsevier &#34;hybrid&#34; journal called _Ecological Modelling_ which charges an APC of USD 3,040 (excluding taxes)...<br/><br/>...publishes THIS abomination as a graphical abstract. 🤣 <br/><br/>Source:<br/>Zhao et al (2025) Designing Ecological Networks to Foster Regional Economic Sustainability: source identification in the Longdong Loess Plateau using self-organizing map and complex network theory. Ecological Modelling, Volume 509, DOI: <a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2025.111211">https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2025.111211</a> <br/> <br/>HT <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub103qpjgf3xvc7whukjandz7mx4nk2tsngdtdnny2lln7mht6m6nzs46sgdm" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>Nadiah Kristensen</span> (<span class="italic">npub103q…sgdm</span>)</a></span><br/> <img src="https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/094/337/913/748/285/original/a1541d816f53281b.jpg"> <br/> 2025-08-26T09:28:50Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs0gwjjrfrug6w255ufm7nq59z75g7mpjp4fphdcgpnk6n3pefy4ugzyrssw49r0p6g2plhyqs7cv8u96kqulcrh84rp3qeu8q2lvpfwwyt78056mk Geographical and disciplinary coverage of open access journals: OpenAlex, Scopus, and WoS<br/><br/><a href="https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0320347">https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0320347</a><br/><br/>&#34;Among the 62,701 active OA journals listed in ROAD, the WoS indexes 6,157 journals, Scopus indexes 7,351, while OpenAlex indexes 34,217. A striking observation is the presence of 24,976 OA journals exclusively in OpenAlex, whereas only 182 journals are exclusively present in the WoS and 373 in Scopus.&#34;<br/><br/>#OpenAccess 2025-04-16T09:02:13Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsxvh2cr6g7j4jjc9p6mleev5flszqrzptatcsr3yvad433rqp8fsczyrssw49r0p6g2plhyqs7cv8u96kqulcrh84rp3qeu8q2lvpfwwyt7wrg8gf Testing out Knowledge Commons by uploading some of my works there...<br/><br/>I like it! Nice to be able to re-use my blog posts that have DOI&#39;s and have a platform that recognises that blog posts _can_ have DOI&#39;s<br/><br/><a href="https://works.hcommons.org/records/z0ktf-ne905">https://works.hcommons.org/records/z0ktf-ne905</a> <br/><br/>What with repositories facing AI-scraper-strain, I figure it&#39;s good to have copies of my research deposited in MULTIPLE locations. #Resilience <br/><br/>#OpenAccess<br/> <img src="https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/341/356/603/345/145/original/26d878deb6633a2d.png"> <br/> 2025-04-15T09:53:49Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsxw3pfpxpavw9fjsd36zjse663lpjez7ejyp6tcjjh60y2jswxjdczyrssw49r0p6g2plhyqs7cv8u96kqulcrh84rp3qeu8q2lvpfwwyt7jnh4ra In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsp2zg4cqy7s4dwgyj54pf4y8yr0hpr3g5k8c065uv0ac96tfxhawq97amms'>nevent1q…amms</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>&#34;The economic value of the outgoing traffic... based on the cost-per-click estimated via the Google Ads platform showed that the owners of external websites linked from Wikipedia infoboxes would need to collectively<br/>pay a total of around $7-13 million per month (or $84-156 million per year) to obtain the same volume of traffic as they receive from Wikipedia for free.&#34;<br/><br/>!! 2025-01-09T11:19:24Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsp2zg4cqy7s4dwgyj54pf4y8yr0hpr3g5k8c065uv0ac96tfxhawqzyrssw49r0p6g2plhyqs7cv8u96kqulcrh84rp3qeu8q2lvpfwwyt728s8qx In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs94s7x3a4m6uv9z73nszupamtrmfwlgz5pm9muyp2slnth5wa78dckjp6v7'>nevent1q…p6v7</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>&#34;The second most clicked domain is doi.org, the domain for all scholarly articles, reports, and datasets recorded with a Digital Object Identifier (DOI), followed by (mostly liberal) newspapers (The New York Times, The Guardian) and broadcasting channels (BBC)...&#34; 2025-01-09T11:17:34Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs94s7x3a4m6uv9z73nszupamtrmfwlgz5pm9muyp2slnth5wa78dczyrssw49r0p6g2plhyqs7cv8u96kqulcrh84rp3qeu8q2lvpfwwyt7kr3cc6 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsyfa586et5yy4rjyq8n2s97s6avw99dja3wzyqy4kwljatgz67v3g38nt98'>nevent1q…nt98</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>&#34;Most of the traffic from Wikipedia is directed to archive.org (882K clicks), hosting the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine...&#34; 2025-01-09T11:16:47Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsyfa586et5yy4rjyq8n2s97s6avw99dja3wzyqy4kwljatgz67v3gzyrssw49r0p6g2plhyqs7cv8u96kqulcrh84rp3qeu8q2lvpfwwyt7r33qzp Reading:<br/><br/>Navigating Knowledge: Patterns and<br/>Insights from Wikipedia Consumption<br/><br/>by Tiziano Piccardi &amp; Robert West<br/><br/><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.00939">https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.00939</a><br/><br/>&#34;Google returns Wikipedia articles on the first page of results for 67%-85% of the queries, depending on the type of searched content...&#34;<br/><br/>#WikiResearch 2025-01-09T11:14:31Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsr7dty48leyx9ksps0hu6errjxa4j56r9av7wtpaflheug5ywte7qzyrssw49r0p6g2plhyqs7cv8u96kqulcrh84rp3qeu8q2lvpfwwyt7djx7lj Lovely to learn more about University of Ljubljana Press (Slovenia) <a href="https://journals.uni-lj.si/">https://journals.uni-lj.si/</a><br/><br/>It publishes 56 international scientific journals, most follow the diamond open access diamond model.<br/><br/>It is one of the largest academic publishers in Slovenia and Central Europe<br/><br/>#OpenAccess #DiamondOA #Slovenia 2024-11-21T14:38:02Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsz8hzvc5pm0jjsly6fhzw4mh7xekfgl7h79fknxku0vn7z49hd76qzyrssw49r0p6g2plhyqs7cv8u96kqulcrh84rp3qeu8q2lvpfwwyt79deh0y Thanks Clarivate. Making it even easier for people to choose to support <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub10qx3mde543xkyzc5zvnds4mf0hyac65hcfdveqk4l68hy7wwsg7qfckwm3" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>OpenAlex</span> (<span class="italic">npub10qx…kwm3</span>)</a></span> now 😉 <br/><br/>If Clarivate de-indexes eLife (where the scientific community _rightly_ chooses to publish great research), Clarivate will propel itself toward becoming the next Encyclopaedia Britannica. Keep digging Clarivate, the grave is nearly deep enough now!<br/><br/><a href="https://www.science.org/content/article/web-science-index-puts-elife-hold-because-its-radical-publishing-model">https://www.science.org/content/article/web-science-index-puts-elife-hold-because-its-radical-publishing-model</a> <br/><br/>#OpenResearchInformation 2024-10-26T19:24:43Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs2zmc0na8vrclv773gn28a72kaal4gtr86t37l4r7qr2t60ww3reczyrssw49r0p6g2plhyqs7cv8u96kqulcrh84rp3qeu8q2lvpfwwyt7h6frms Elsevier selling access to an open access article, again (2024 edition) <a href="https://rossmounce.co.uk/2024/09/24/elsevier-selling-access-to-an-open-access-article-again-2024-edition/">https://rossmounce.co.uk/2024/09/24/elsevier-selling-access-to-an-open-access-article-again-2024-edition/</a><br/><br/>article that I believe to be &#39;mistakenly&#39; on sale is here: <a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.comtox.2017.10.001">https://doi.org/10.1016/j.comtox.2017.10.001</a><br/><br/>the version at PMC clearly states it&#39;s an open access article 🤷‍♂️ <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5695905/">https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5695905/</a> <br/><br/>#OpenAccess #Ethics #NotIllegalButSketchy #ElsevierDoesItAgain #PaywallWatch 2024-09-24T21:39:36Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqspkp859tc3txjple2y6ztrz447elwg4ezj2sxdtj846y297z22uxgzyrssw49r0p6g2plhyqs7cv8u96kqulcrh84rp3qeu8q2lvpfwwyt7x7htgh Friendly warning for those seeking to fill out the UNESCO survey &#34;Consultation on a Global Diamond Open Access Framework&#34; ... it takes a long long time to fill out if you&#39;re trying to answer each question properly :S <br/><br/>Like, schedule at least 30-45mins for yourself to get it done!<br/><br/>#OpenScience #OpenAccess 2024-09-23T10:26:25Z