#clarivate — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #clarivate, aggregated by home.social.
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#boycottisrael
#ExLibris est une société israélienne de logiciels qui développe des systèmes intégrés de gestion de bibliothèques #SIGB et d'autres logiciels de gestion de #bibliothèques . En octobre 2015, Ex Libris a été rachetée par #ProQuest [3] , elle-même acquise par #Clarivate en décembre 2021
Signez et faites signer la #petition demandant le non renouvellement des contrats avec Ex Libris : https://framaforms.org/boycott-ex-libris-1752580111 -
Sans doute pas mal de Wikimedia dans le projet Orion :
"Avec l’outil de découverte Primo, l’Abes modernise l’accès public au catalogue en misant sur une structuration enrichie des métadonnées, l’apport de sources externes et une mise en valeur forte des ressources en libre accès."
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If you use #AI tools, you probably upload or integrate content you control, and probably make use of real-time internet searches to integrate unpaywalled online content you don't control. What if you could integrate paywalled content licensed by your library? A new #Clarivate tool lets you do just that.
"#NexusConnect…enables users to access university-licensed content and services directly within their #AI chat interface…Clarivate said it is working with leading AI chat agent providers [the article mentions #ChatGPT and #Claude] to develop institutional connectors that address key priorities for universities, including ease of deployment, usage attribution and copyright protection."
https://www.researchinformation.info/news/clarivate-launches-nexus-connect-to-bring-library-resources-into-ai-chat-environments/PS: Lots of power here and lots of questions. To start: when Nexus Connect gives AI tools access to licensed content, can the tools train on it? Always, sometimes, never? Who decides? If users save the unique URLs of their chats, can they share the chats with people outside their institutions? Will users at subscribing institutions have continuing access to those chats even if their libraries later cancel their subscriptions to the integrated content? Even if the publishers later change their policies on AI tool access and training? Will academic publishers who develop their own AI tools refuse to participate in this program?
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Update. "The University of Groningen (UG) and the University Medical Centre Groningen (UMCG) will cancel their licence for the #WebOfScience database with effect from 1 January 2027."
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And now #Clarivate #WebOfScience says:
"Roaming Access Expiration Notice
Your roaming access to the Web of Science has expired. You are in a free session of the Web of Science and the functionality may be limited. To gain full access to the Web of Science you will need to renew your roaming access by signing in to Web of Science at your institution."They really like to snoop don't they?
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#Clarivate wants me to review 7 publications added to my #WebOfScience profile, so tried to log in. Figured I'd login via my #OrcidID, but Clarivate want permissions to:
* Add/update your research activities (works, affiliations, etc.)
* Add/update information about you (country, keywords, etc.)
* Read your information with visibility set to Trusted partiesNone of those are acceptable to me, denied. Signed in with Google - all they get that way is read access to my name, profile picture and email address.
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A 2020 paper on using jade amulets to cure COVID has had quite some fallout.
Three years on, the first author sued his institution, Pittsburgh, because he said their response was discriminatory: https://retractionwatch.com/2023/08/11/author-of-paper-on-covid-19-and-jade-amulets-sues-employer-for-mental-anguish-discrimination/. He left the same year and has since founded his own institute for "paradigm shifts".
Five years on, this case and other problems led Clarivate to delist the journal, Elsevier's Science of the Total Environment, from the Web of Science. https://english.elpais.com/science-tech/2025-11-28/the-fall-of-a-prolific-science-journal-exposes-the-billion-dollar-profits-of-scientific-publishing.html
#ResearchIntegrity #AbstractingAndIndexing #AcademicJournals #Clarivate #WebOfScience #ScienceOfTheTotalEnvironment
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Update. The French 𝘊𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘦 𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘥𝘦 𝘭𝘢 𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘤𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘧𝘪𝘲𝘶𝘦 (#CNRS) is canceling the #WebOfScience and encouraging its affiliates to use #OpenAlex. It canceled #Scopus last year.
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Der Physiker Prof. Dr. Dieter Neher von der Universität Potsdam zählt weiter zur Spitzengruppe der meistzitierten Forschenden seines Fachs weltweit. Die Liste der „Highly Cited Researchers“ führt ihn inzwischen das fünfte Jahr in Folge unter den einflussreichsten Wissenschaftlern ihrer Fachgebiete: https://www.uni-potsdam.de/de/nachrichten/detail/2025-11-13-wissenschaftler-der-universitaet-potsdam-unter-den-meistzitierten-forschenden-weltweit
#HighlyCited2025 #HighlyCitedResearchers #Clarivate #Forschung #Physik #Potsdam
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Herzlichen Glückwunsch an Sabine Sonnentag! Die Professorin für Arbeits- und Organisationspsychologie gehört erneut zu den meistzitierten Forschenden weltweit. 🎉
Dies geht aus der aktuellen Liste #HighlyCitedResearchers hervor, die das Unternehmen #Clarivate jährlich veröffentlicht. Sonnentag wird in der Kategorie „Cross-Field“ gelistet, die Forschende ehrt, deren Publikationen fachübergreifend besonders einflussreich sind. 📝
In ihrer Forschung beschäftigt sich die Psychologin mit der Frage, wie Arbeit gestaltet werden kann, sodass sie die Leistungsfähigkeit der Mitarbeitenden fördert und gleichzeitig gesundheitliche Belastungen minimiert. 🔍
👉🏻 https://www.uni-mannheim.de/news/sabine-sonnentag-unter-den-meistzitierten-forschenden-weltweit/
📸 Elisa Berdica
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Félicitations à la professeure Andrea Ablasser, qui a été nommée Clarivate Citation Laureate en «physiologie ou médecine» pour ses contributions dans le domaine de l'immunité innée. Ce prix récompense les scientifiques dont les travaux ont ouvert de nouveaux horizons et profondément influencé leur discipline.
En savoir plus: https://go.epfl.ch/afff30
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Congratulations to professor Andrea Ablasser, who has been named a Clarivate Citation Laureate in Physiology or Medicine in recognition of her pioneering contributions to innate immunity. The distinction honors scientists whose research has opened new fields and profoundly shaped their discipline.
Read more: https://go.epfl.ch/1cad91
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ProQuest Ebook Central is bad in a number of ways, and I just found a new one: how it confounds Zotero by its awfulness.
Full-text DRM-free PDFs or EPUBs is the way to go, not this junk.
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How to Fight Fraudulent Publishing
Photo by Tima Miroshnichenko on Pexels.comThere’s a short article on arXiv with the title How to Fight Fraudulent Publishing in the Mathematical Sciences: Joint Recommendations of the IMU and the ICIAM which is well worth reading. The abstract is not useful but the prelude reads:
Prelude. In November 2023, Clarivate announced that it had excluded the entire field of mathematics from the latest edition of its influential list of ‘highly cited researchers’. This prompted the IMU and the ICIAM to conduct a more thorough investigation into the problem of fraudulent publishing in the mathematical sciences (see [1]). Understanding the problem is one thing; finding a way out and regaining control is another. With the recommendations given below, we would like to start the discussion on how, as a global community, we can achieve this. We are all concerned. It affects the very core of the science we love so much. I.A.
arXiv:2509.09877
The paper correctly identifies predatory journals and citation cartels as two consequences of the effort to quantify and rank the quality of research through scientific ‘performance indicators’, in the form of bibliometric measures and suggests some possible remedies.
Many of the recommendations are already included in the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (SFDORA). Many also apply beyond the mathematical sciences (which is why I dropped the Mathematical Sciences bit in the title of the paper from the title of this blog post) and it’s not a long paper so I suggest you read it.
In my view one of the most important steps to take is to ditch the reliance on such companies as Scopus and Clarivate, who have deliberately constructed a system that is so easy to game. All higher education institutes should follow the examples of the Sorbonne University in Paris and, more recently, Utrecht University in the Netherlands. The academic publishing racket is inherently fraudulent. Too many universities, and indeed researchers employed by them, are willing participants in the system.
#arXiv250909877 #CitationCartels #Clarivate #DORA #PredatoryPublishers #SanFranciscoDeclarationOnResearchAssessment #SCOPUS #SFDORA
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I understand the concern around #Clarivate #Proquest buying #ERIC database. They might begin to charge for access (However, I have some doubts that they'll do that).
Nevertheless, were there alternatives? Yes, the government should have never defund it, but they did.
And, unless there were any better alternatives of acquisition that I'm unaware of, the buying by Clarivate at least give some expectative that the resource could survive
https://boletinscielomx.blogspot.com/2025/08/admon-trump-desfondo-al-indice-eric-el.html
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Damian Pattinson of @eLife (and my former boss at PLOS ONE) at The Royal Society's Future of Scientific Publishing conference describes the devastating effect on their submissions of Clarivate removing their Impact Factor due to their change in peer review model, then asks why other journals, including Science, don't renounce their own IFs.
#SciComm #JournalPublishing #ImpactFactor #Clarivate #WebOfScience #PeerReview #TheRoyalSociety #FutureOfScientificPublishing #Citations #Bibliometrics #ResearchImpact #ResearchAssessment
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This is the web page of release notes for Clarivate's library platform Alma. If you hover over a box, it shows you up to six links labelled by month. You may need to click to reveal more. If you click on a month, you load a page that has a link to a page with the release notes.
My place of work spends about $400,000 a year to rent this system.
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Clarivate and CRKN (Canadian Research Knowledge Network) Announce Multi-Year Partnership https://clarivate.com/news/clarivate-partners-with-crkn-to-further-canadas-research-goals/ #clarivate #crkn #webofscience
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DATE: April 23, 2025 at 07:30AM
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DATE: April 22, 2025 at 05:30PM
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Sky Labs seeks global expansion of world’s first BP monitor ring
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NYU Information for Practice puts out 400-500 good quality health-related research posts per week but its too much for many people, so that bot is limited to just subscribers. You can read it or subscribe at @PsychResearchBot
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Since 1991 The National Psychologist has focused on keeping practicing psychologists current with news, information and items of interest. Check them out for more free articles, resources, and subscription information: https://www.nationalpsychologist.com
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A Master Class in Destroying Trust
For (hopefully) obvious reasons, I’m taking the liberty of republishing, with permission, the following article, originally published here, about the egregious behaviour of the company Clarivate which, among other activities, is responsible for assigning Journal Impact Factors. Please read it if you want to understand why nothing Clarivate does should be trusted. The author, Sunshine Carter, is director of collection strategy and e-resource management at the University of Minnesota. The article represents the author’s personal views, not those of her employer.
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Clarivate’s “transformative subscription-based strategy” caught the library world flat-footed. How did this happen? And where do we go from here?
By Sunshine Carter
03.19.2025On February 18, 2025, Clarivate announced that as part of its “transformative strategy and following changes in demand from libraries” it would “phase out one-time perpetual purchases of print books” and ebooks on ProQuest’s Ebook Central platform. It would also end new perpetual archive license purchases of digital collections.
The removal of perpetual purchases from Clarivate’s sales models runs counter to library values of long-term preservation and access to information. Subscriptions might work for some libraries, but perpetual purchases are important for the preservation of the written record, especially at research institutions.
In the weeks that followed the announcement, librarians (including Siobhan Haimé and Isaac Wink) lamented the end of ownership; the loss of stable access; and the loss of a primary supplier for shelf-ready print books. They shared concerns about their ability to afford new subscriptions, the need to shift collection development strategies, and Clarivate’s fast timeline. Many pointed to Clarivate’s February 19, 2025 earnings call for 2024 Q4, which clearly articulated their goal to increase the bottom line. This was the “value creation plan (VCP)” Clarivate announced in late 2024 coming to fruition. Library and higher education consortia sent letters to Clarivate; libraries met with Clarivate, and with each other. EBSCO, a direct competitor, quickly reaffirmed its commitment to offering a variety of purchase options for libraries.
On March 4, two weeks after the initial announcement, Clarivate’s CEO, Matti Shem Tov, and president for academia and government, Bar Veinstein, issued an open letter to the library community in which they apologized that “the absence of community consultation created frustration, during already challenging times for libraries and higher education.” They also announced that Clarivate would delay the implementation date for the planned changes and guarantee perpetual access for previously purchased materials.
This response—a delay in implementation that ignores the library community’s deeper critique of the plan—rings hollow.
As we plan our next steps, we should reflect on how we got here.
Building a Community
In June 2007, I found myself in Spearfish, South Dakota at my first Ex Libris Users of North American (ELUNA) conference.
Formed in 2006 from the merger of two previous user groups, ELUNA is a not-for-profit organization representing Ex Libris customers in the Americas. Ex Libris develops and sells library software and management solutions like Alma, an integrated library management system used by over 2,500 libraries worldwide.
ELUNA members test and advocate for improvements to the Ex Libris products and have created a community of support for each other. ELUNA has a steering committee, eighteen working groups, four advisory groups, and seven communities of practice composed of staff from subscribing institutions; they interact directly with staff from Ex Libris. Over the past 20 years, through my institutions’ involvement in ELUNA, I’ve improved, conceptualized, and developed features for Ex Libris products.
At my first ELUNA conference, I was awed by how many libraries and library staff were users of and experts in Ex Libris tools and systems. I was also struck by how closely ELUNA attendees and member institutions collaborated with Ex Libris staff. Ex Libris leaders, product managers, developers, and customer support and service staff attend the ELUNA conference, where they lead trainings and give presentations.
Over the years, Ex Libris executives (including, during their tenures there, Shem Tov and Veinstein) often used the conference to announce and explain the rationale for new products or other major business decisions. During Q&A sessions, ELUNA members shared opinions—sometimes passionate—directly with Ex Libris staff and executives. There was a high level of collaboration and information-sharing between ELUNA member institutions, their staff, and Ex Libris employees.
The process of collaboration was not always smooth and didn’t always work out as ELUNA members preferred, but we worked with Ex Libris to make things happen and felt like a valued community.
A Shifting Tide
In October 2015, ProQuest, which had its own long history as a key provider of digitized primary materials and aggregator of research databases, ebooks, and streaming videos, acquired Ex Libris. This was a seismic transition for academic libraries. But despite fretting about what the acquisition would mean for both companies and their lines of products, from the outside, things seemed okay: There was some consolidation—for example, of customer support desks—but the products themselves didn’t change. Ex Libris retained its moniker, adding “A ProQuest Company” to its logo and branding. Several Ex Libris executives—including Shem Tov and Veinstein—made their way into ProQuest leadership.
And then, in late 2021, ProQuest was acquired by Clarivate.
Though Clarivate’s current leadership—including Shem Tov and Veinstein—have a strong history of collaborating with their customers, they didn’t consult with libraries or publishers before their February 18 announcement. Clarivate’s failure to involve their customers in this decision, especially those in government and academia, shows that they prioritized profit over relationships.
The exclusion of libraries was intentional, not an oversight. In a moment when university budgets are facing profound and intense technological, financial, and governmental pressures, Clarivate’s fast and furious timeline—even with a slight reprieve—is out of touch.
Vendors and publishers seek to make money. Library professionals promote the freedom to read and unfettered access to content. Of course the goals of vendors and library professionals can be in conflict. And yet, in our work with vendors, as exemplified in my experience with ELUNA—a service provided by libraries and their employees to a corporation, in the form of a nonprofit, which we described as a community—it has at times been easy to feel as if we all share a commitment to libraries and librarianship.
We do not.
Where Do We Go From Here?
Clarivate is omnipresent on academic campuses, although it is not alone. And, like other large content and information services providers, it has shifted its focus. In an article about Elsevier and its parent company, RELX, Christien Boomsma writes, “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.” In addition to a new focus on data, Clarivate is investing heavily in artificial intelligence, an indicator of expected market and revenue gains.
Clarivate’s dismissal of one-time purchases is alarming, but when you consider the company’s larger strategy, it makes sense. On the Q4 earnings call, Shem Tov refers to one-time purchases as “a drain.” He also says that Clarivate has “retained financial advisers to help us in evaluating strategic alternatives to unlock value. This may include divesting business units or an entire segment.” He goes on to say, “There is no guarantee that anything actionable will arise from this process,” but considering Clarivate will no longer sell books, Clarivate’s furthering its investment in data should make us wary.
Going forward, libraries and library staff should approach vendors with absolute clarity about the values governing our respective work and the nature of our relationships. We must:
Increase bibliodiversity in the market and our collections (Haimé) by:
- Purchasing materials directly from smaller and/or more diverse publishers
- Investing in academy-owned open access infrastructure and publishing that is sustainable, equitable, and diverse
- Investigating alternative software, tools, and content providers; consider developing options in-house (or in collaboration with other institutions)
- Divesting from resources that no longer serve our needs or align with our values
Speak up by:
- Sharing concerns with library leadership
- Pushing vendors on issues that conflict with our values
- Requesting meetings with vendor leadership
Use our collective voices to:
- Discuss issues with institutional, system, regional, consortia, or association groups
- Bring shared concerns to vendors, collectively
- Reclaim our space; insist on being at the table (especially concerning the development of AI-integrated tools and the use of data collected about our institutions or our users)
- Set guiding principles for interacting with publishers and vendors
Incorporate limitations into signed agreements. Make sure to:
- Get everything in writing, via a contract
- Limit vendors’ use of the data they collect from our users and institutions
Offer library staff training on:
- Current vendor issues and trends with vendors
- Ethics and conflicts of interest
We should remain open to collaboration but remember that profit drives many of the companies libraries rely on. Even in the face of great challenges and unbelievable changes, we can and should continue to advocate for our core values.
10.1146/katina–031925-1