#elsevier — Public Fediverse posts

Yuliya Fadeeva hat gerade ihre Studie zum #Wissenschaftstracking bei den ehemaligen Wissenschaftsverlagen, heute #DataAnalytics Companies wie #Elsevier veröffentlicht:

Fadeeva, Yuliya. Wissenschaftstracking und Lock-in-Effekt. Ein Deal gegen digitale Souveränität. Melusina Press, 2026. Text/html. https://doi.org/10.26298/1981-5920

@melusinapress
#ScienceTracking #DEAL

Yuliya Fadeeva hat gerade ihre Studie zum #Wissenschaftstracking bei den ehemaligen Wissenschaftsverlagen, heute #DataAnalytics Companies wie #Elsevier veröffentlicht:

Fadeeva, Yuliya. Wissenschaftstracking und Lock-in-Effekt. Ein Deal gegen digitale Souveränität. Melusina Press, 2026. Text/html. https://doi.org/10.26298/1981-5920

@melusinapress
#ScienceTracking #DEAL

'Applying an identical rule to unequal starting points does not produce a fair outcome. It simply reproduces existing advantage and calls it consistency.'

'We asked him to reconsider, and set out why a flat, one-size-fits-all deadline disadvantages researchers with caring responsibilities, disabilities, medical needs, limited institutional support, heavy teaching or administrative loads, or field-based roles without reliable internet access or even those who might be on annual leave. The response we received defended the policy as consistent and, in the editor’s words, “fair”.'

Released by @AdriftLab: https://adriftlab.org/news/equality-is-not-equity-why-we-have-withdrawn-our-manuscript-from-marine-environmental-research/

#consistency #Elsevier #revision #reviews #publishing #journals #equality #equity #research #NZ #sea #academicChatter

'Applying an identical rule to unequal starting points does not produce a fair outcome. It simply reproduces existing advantage and calls it consistency.'

'We asked him to reconsider, and set out why a flat, one-size-fits-all deadline disadvantages researchers with caring responsibilities, disabilities, medical needs, limited institutional support, heavy teaching or administrative loads, or field-based roles without reliable internet access or even those who might be on annual leave. The response we received defended the policy as consistent and, in the editor’s words, “fair”.'

Released by @AdriftLab: https://adriftlab.org/news/equality-is-not-equity-why-we-have-withdrawn-our-manuscript-from-marine-environmental-research/

#consistency #Elsevier #revision #reviews #publishing #journals #equality #equity #research #NZ #sea #academicChatter

News Summary: Hachette, Cengage, and Elsevier Sue Google over Gemini AI Copyright Infringement

There is a new AI lawsuit in town. It raises some very interesting questions. It's also seeking to establish a class action, and the class would almost certainly contain a lot of indie titles, which is why I am heading back to the AI lawsuit well once more.
The post News Summary: Hachette, Cengage, and Elsevier Sue Google over Gemini AI Copyright Infringement appeared first on The Self-Publishing Advice Center.
https://selfpublishingadvice.org/gemini-ai-copyright-infringement/

#cengage #copyrightinfringement #Elsevier #FairUse #GeminiAI

News Summary: Hachette, Cengage, and Elsevier Sue Google over Gemini AI Copyright Infringement

There is a new AI lawsuit in town. It raises some very interesting questions. It's also seeking to establish a class action, and the class would almost certainly contain a lot of indie titles, which is why I am heading back to the AI lawsuit well once more.
The post News Summary: Hachette, Cengage, and Elsevier Sue Google over Gemini AI Copyright Infringement appeared first on The Self-Publishing Advice Center.
https://selfpublishingadvice.org/gemini-ai-copyright-infringement/

#cengage #copyrightinfringement #Elsevier #FairUse #GeminiAI

#Hachette Book Group, #Cengage Learning, #Elsevier, and author #ScottTurow are suing #Google for #copyrightinfringement. The lawsuit alleges Google used millions of #copyrightedbooks without permission to train its #Gemini #AImodels, potentially harming authors and the publishing industry. The plaintiffs are seeking damages, an injunction, and the destruction of unauthorised copies. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/jul/14/publishers-sue-google-gemini-ai-training?AIagents.at #AIagent #AI #ML #NLP #LLM #GenAI

#Hachette Book Group, #Cengage Learning, #Elsevier, and author #ScottTurow are suing #Google for #copyrightinfringement. The lawsuit alleges Google used millions of #copyrightedbooks without permission to train its #Gemini #AImodels, potentially harming authors and the publishing industry. The plaintiffs are seeking damages, an injunction, and the destruction of unauthorised copies. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/jul/14/publishers-sue-google-gemini-ai-training?AIagents.at #AIagent #AI #ML #NLP #LLM #GenAI

Book publishers sue Google for copyright infringement over Gemini AI training: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/jul/14/publishers-sue-google-gemini-ai-training

'A group of major publishers have filed a lawsuit against Google, accusing the company of illegally using millions of copyrighted books to help build its Gemini artificial intelligence models, in “one of the most prolific infringements of copyrighted materials in history”.

The case, filed in federal court in New York, has been brought by three publishers – Hachette Book Group, Cengage Learning, and Elsevier – and bestselling American author Scott Turow.'

#ArtificialIntelligence #AI #Google #Hachette #Elsevier #publishing #books #grift #theft

Book publishers sue Google for copyright infringement over Gemini AI training: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/jul/14/publishers-sue-google-gemini-ai-training

'A group of major publishers have filed a lawsuit against Google, accusing the company of illegally using millions of copyrighted books to help build its Gemini artificial intelligence models, in “one of the most prolific infringements of copyrighted materials in history”.

The case, filed in federal court in New York, has been brought by three publishers – Hachette Book Group, Cengage Learning, and Elsevier – and bestselling American author Scott Turow.'

#ArtificialIntelligence #AI #Google #Hachette #Elsevier #publishing #books #grift #theft

And no, I will not give #elsevier my personal email address.

And no, I will not give #elsevier my personal email address.

#ResearchFish (Elsevier's tool for reporting project results to funding agencies) asks me to use a personal email address to sign up, in order to prevent losing access when I change institutions.

Which is ironic, because #elsevier has announced that they'll shut down that service in July 2027.

#ResearchFish (Elsevier's tool for reporting project results to funding agencies) asks me to use a personal email address to sign up, in order to prevent losing access when I change institutions.

Which is ironic, because #elsevier has announced that they'll shut down that service in July 2027.

Preprints are bad because we need peer review to ensure quality and integrity of the scientific record. 🤥😜

🤑🤑🤑 #Elsevier

#ScientificPublishing #SciPub 🧪

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:4x4id4pf2mryakvmphrpi2eb/post/3moph2kceuc2x

📬 WeLib verklagt: Klon von Anna’s Archive im Visier der Verlagsbranche
#EBooks #Rechtssachen #Anna039;sArchive #Elsevier #JohnWileySons #Klage #Pearson #Quellcode #Schattenbibliothek https://sc.tarnkappe.info/6f9d99

📬 WeLib verklagt: Klon von Anna’s Archive im Visier der Verlagsbranche
#EBooks #Rechtssachen #Anna039;sArchive #Elsevier #JohnWileySons #Klage #Pearson #Quellcode #Schattenbibliothek https://sc.tarnkappe.info/6f9d99

Dear researchers,
I am sick of #Elsevier and their antics (ridiculous APCs, inaccessible articles, unauthorised data-mininig, etc.) and want to avoid publishing with them as much as possible.

Can you suggest good journals in the following topics / fields (society journals welcome):

1. #microalgae
2. #molecularbiology
3. #crispr
4. #sustainability

#opensource #openaccess #academicresearch #academia

Please #boost so I can reach other academics.

Dear researchers,
I am sick of #Elsevier and their antics (ridiculous APCs, inaccessible articles, unauthorised data-mininig, etc.) and want to avoid publishing with them as much as possible.

Can you suggest good journals in the following topics / fields (society journals welcome):

1. #microalgae
2. #molecularbiology
3. #crispr
4. #sustainability

#opensource #openaccess #academicresearch #academia

Please #boost so I can reach other academics.

Yet, the most hilarious thing is that the AoM teamed up with a publisher to launch these journals. And of all the academic publishers out there, AoM chose #Elsevier of all places.

For some background on the current path(s) towards OA publishing, including some of the reasons why Elsevier is problematic, check out @heimstaedt & my article on "The structural transformation of the scientific public sphere". It's OA available over here:
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/01914537231203558

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Yet, the most hilarious thing is that the AoM teamed up with a publisher to launch these journals. And of all the academic publishers out there, AoM chose #Elsevier of all places.

For some background on the current path(s) towards OA publishing, including some of the reasons why Elsevier is problematic, check out @heimstaedt & my article on "The structural transformation of the scientific public sphere". It's OA available over here:
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/01914537231203558

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If you didn't know already, #Elsevier has fucked up #SSRN. #AcademicSky

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:gdj5pzurklijmlknynlpaora/post/3mngbtg4ns22c

If you didn't know already, #Elsevier has fucked up #SSRN. #AcademicSky

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:gdj5pzurklijmlknynlpaora/post/3mngbtg4ns22c

Job Losses at Universities, Huge Profits at Elsevier

The wave of job losses at UK universities is spreading. I recently mentioned Nottingham University and just this week saw an announcement from Sussex University that 200 jobs are on the line (this in addition to 528 already lost in the past year). Higher education in the UK is shrinking.

Meanwhile, one of the leading exponents of the Academic Publishing Racket, Elsevier, announced its profits for 2025:

(Taken from here.) That profit margin is higher than all the Big Tech companies. Higher education may be shrinking but Elsevier’s profits are not.

Despite the dire financial straits of universities in the UK and elsewhere, they continue to surrender money to this parasitic industry which is draining institutions of precious resources. I’m not saying that academic journal costs are the sole reason for the current meltdown but it does say something about the lack of imagination of University leaders that they continue wasting money on the “service” provided by commercial publishers like Elsevier.

Many of us have been boycotting Elsevier as individuals for many years, but it clearly isn’t working. Perhaps now University leaders will finally realise that the status quo is unsustainable and cut their institutional ties with the publishing industry for good. It won’t solve all their financial problems, but it’s the right thing to do.

Job Losses at Universities, Huge Profits at Elsevier

The wave of job losses at UK universities is spreading. I recently mentioned Nottingham University and just this week saw an announcement from Sussex University that 200 jobs are on the line (this in addition to 528 already lost in the past year). Higher education in the UK is shrinking.

Meanwhile, one of the leading exponents of the Academic Publishing Racket, Elsevier, announced its profits for 2025:

(Taken from here.) That profit margin is higher than all the Big Tech companies. Higher education may be shrinking but Elsevier’s profits are not.

Despite the dire financial straits of universities in the UK and elsewhere, they continue to surrender money to this parasitic industry which is draining institutions of precious resources. I’m not saying that academic journal costs are the sole reason for the current meltdown but it does say something about the lack of imagination of University leaders that they continue wasting money on the “service” provided by commercial publishers like Elsevier.

Many of us have been boycotting Elsevier as individuals for many years, but it clearly isn’t working. Perhaps now University leaders will finally realise that the status quo is unsustainable and cut their institutional ties with the publishing industry for good. It won’t solve all their financial problems, but it’s the right thing to do.

TIL #elsevier does not provide perpetual access to purchased ebooks. Purchased ebooks can be downloaded from their website only within two years of the purchase date; you have to repurchase the book if you accidentally lose your local copy 😡

#books

TIL #elsevier does not provide perpetual access to purchased ebooks. Purchased ebooks can be downloaded from their website only within two years of the purchase date; you have to repurchase the book if you accidentally lose your local copy 😡

#books

Due Lipa sues Samsung over her image being used on TV boxes, Zee Entertainment sues JioStar, and Elsevier joins the lawsuit against Meta.

https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2026/05/14/3-count-samstunk/

#Copyright #DuaLipa #Meta #Elsevier

Due Lipa sues Samsung over her image being used on TV boxes, Zee Entertainment sues JioStar, and Elsevier joins the lawsuit against Meta.

https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2026/05/14/3-count-samstunk/

#Copyright #DuaLipa #Meta #Elsevier

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01481-0

"first science publisher sues over scraped research papers"

#Meta vs. #Elsevier - you really don't know who to root for less.

#Llama #AI #Copyright

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01481-0

"first science publisher sues over scraped research papers"

#Meta vs. #Elsevier - you really don't know who to root for less.

#Llama #AI #Copyright

Publishers and Authors Sue Meta, Alleging ‘Massive’ Copyright Infringement Behind Its Llama AI Service

The class action lawsuit, filed in New York, accuses Meta—and its founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg personally—of building its Llama AI service with unauthorized copies knowingly sourced from illegal pirate sites.  
The post Publishers and Authors Sue Meta, Alleging ‘Massive’ Copyright Infringement Behind Its Llama AI Service appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.
https://publishingperspectives.com/2026/05/publishers-and-authors-sue-meta-alleging-massive-copyright-infringement-behind-its-llama-ai-service/

#AI #CengageGroup #Copyright #Elsevier #Hachette

Publishers and Authors Sue Meta, Alleging ‘Massive’ Copyright Infringement Behind Its Llama AI Service

The class action lawsuit, filed in New York, accuses Meta—and its founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg personally—of building its Llama AI service with unauthorized copies knowingly sourced from illegal pirate sites.  
The post Publishers and Authors Sue Meta, Alleging ‘Massive’ Copyright Infringement Behind Its Llama AI Service appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.
https://publishingperspectives.com/2026/05/publishers-and-authors-sue-meta-alleging-massive-copyright-infringement-behind-its-llama-ai-service/

#AI #CengageGroup #Copyright #Elsevier #Hachette

Scandal at Elsevier, *again*:

https://www.chrisbrunet.com/p/third-editor-fired-in-elseviers-citation

As revealed by Chris Brunet.

#ScientificPublishing #RELX #Elsevier

Scandal at Elsevier, *again*:

https://www.chrisbrunet.com/p/third-editor-fired-in-elseviers-citation

As revealed by Chris Brunet.

#ScientificPublishing #RELX #Elsevier

Third Editor Fired in Elsevier's Citation Cartel Crackdown

https://www.chrisbrunet.com/p/third-editor-fired-in-elseviers-citation

#HackerNews #Elsevier #Citation #Cartel #Third #Editor #Fired #Academic #Publishing #News #Integrity

Third Editor Fired in Elsevier's Citation Cartel Crackdown

https://www.chrisbrunet.com/p/third-editor-fired-in-elseviers-citation

#HackerNews #Elsevier #Citation #Cartel #Third #Editor #Fired #Academic #Publishing #News #Integrity

Some weeks ago I accepted a review request from a prestige journal (in a small field). I found the abstract interesting, but had hesitations due to poor experience with editorial process as an author with this journal, and since it was an El$evier journal (which I try to avoid doing free work for).

Now the deadline review is approaching, and the study was less interesting than assumed, has no data available, poor transparency, typos that should have been weeded out in the review process, and I'm regretting my decision. I will fortify my review policy for the future!

#AcademicChatter #AcademicPublishing #PeerReview #elsevier #OpenScience

Some weeks ago I accepted a review request from a prestige journal (in a small field). I found the abstract interesting, but had hesitations due to poor experience with editorial process as an author with this journal, and since it was an El$evier journal (which I try to avoid doing free work for).

Now the deadline review is approaching, and the study was less interesting than assumed, has no data available, poor transparency, typos that should have been weeded out in the review process, and I'm regretting my decision. I will fortify my review policy for the future!

#AcademicChatter #AcademicPublishing #PeerReview #elsevier #OpenScience

update: PDF obtained, i love fedi ​:neocat_hyper:​

i saw a few posts in this hashtag so hopefully this is a thing? #ICanHazPDF

Wikipedia Library's ScienceDirect subscription doesn't seem to include Endocrine Practice and I haven't been able to find this article any other way so I would really appreciate if anyone who has access to #ScienceDirect or #Elsevier journals or whatever would include this could see if they can get me a copy of this, because it's actually huge to have a Real Study™ confirming this and I need to see it:

A. L. Misakian, D. Ariel, E. A. Sullivan, et al., "Injectable Estradiol Monotherapy Effectively Suppresses Testosterone in Gender-Affirming Hormone Therapy", Endocrine Practice 31, no. 11: P1462–69, doi:10.1016/j.eprac.2025.07.002

many thanks in advance ​:neocat_sad_reach:​

#FediScience #Endocrinology #FediHelp #Medicine

@agowa338
About charging money:

The reviewers don't charge anything, they don't get paid. Neither do the scientists who write the paper. The big publishers (e.g. #Elsevier) charge so much because they can. They get free work from all sides and charge royally for it. This is one of the main issues with the current system.

Fortunately, things are changing slowly, with some major universities cancelling their subscriptions and are moving to open access.

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@agowa338
About charging money:

The reviewers don't charge anything, they don't get paid. Neither do the scientists who write the paper. The big publishers (e.g. #Elsevier) charge so much because they can. They get free work from all sides and charge royally for it. This is one of the main issues with the current system.

Fortunately, things are changing slowly, with some major universities cancelling their subscriptions and are moving to open access.

3/3

Haters vs lovers: kritisch kletsen over Extinction Rebellion

https://tube.linkse.media/w/iUWSMj4DNtMDFa51LotMC9

Haters vs lovers: kritisch kletsen over Extinction Rebellion

https://tube.linkse.media/w/iUWSMj4DNtMDFa51LotMC9

Update. While the #ThomsonReuters employee letter is not yet public, #Poynter quotes from it: "The detrimental actions of #ICE, and the #DHS’s lack of oversight and direct falsehoods regarding the situation in #Minnesota and other cities, makes us question if our investigative products and services are being used in accordance with our mission and values, as well as in accordance with the law and our nation’s constitution.”
https://www.poynter.org/business-work/2026/law360-reuters-newsrooms-letter-against-ice-dhs/

The same article links to a similar letter from #RELX employees to management about a $22.1 million contract with ICE. RELX is the parent company of #LexisNexis and #Elsevier.
https://www.poynter.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/law360-demand-letter.pdf

That letter is public. From the RELX employee letter: "We are deeply concerned that RELX is directly aiding the separation of families, the removal of children from schools and the death of individuals in detention centers."

RELX deleted a page from its FAQ, posted during the Biden administration, saying that its tools would not be used for these purposes. But here's a copy from the #WaybackMachine.
https://web.archive.org/web/20230307061658/https://risk.lexisnexis.com/government/our-services-for-homeland-security

#Trump #USPol #USPolitics

Update. While the #ThomsonReuters employee letter is not yet public, #Poynter quotes from it: "The detrimental actions of #ICE, and the #DHS’s lack of oversight and direct falsehoods regarding the situation in #Minnesota and other cities, makes us question if our investigative products and services are being used in accordance with our mission and values, as well as in accordance with the law and our nation’s constitution.”
https://www.poynter.org/business-work/2026/law360-reuters-newsrooms-letter-against-ice-dhs/

The same article links to a similar letter from #RELX employees to management about a $22.1 million contract with ICE. RELX is the parent company of #LexisNexis and #Elsevier.
https://www.poynter.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/law360-demand-letter.pdf

That letter is public. From the RELX employee letter: "We are deeply concerned that RELX is directly aiding the separation of families, the removal of children from schools and the death of individuals in detention centers."

RELX deleted a page from its FAQ, posted during the Biden administration, saying that its tools would not be used for these purposes. But here's a copy from the #WaybackMachine.
https://web.archive.org/web/20230307061658/https://risk.lexisnexis.com/government/our-services-for-homeland-security

#Trump #USPol #USPolitics

i wonder how true this is… #elsevier is shitty in a billion other ways so it’s entirely plausible 😶

i wonder how true this is… #elsevier is shitty in a billion other ways so it’s entirely plausible 😶

Today in a new low for Elsevier, the infamous academic publisher:

"Elsevier, the company that makes a lot of the compulsory textbooks for University, commissioned scientists to develop a new book binding glue designed to fail after 3 years, as they hated that there was a second hand market."

Planned obsolescence to quell the second hand market ... if confirmed – it's the sort of thing this company would do –, may they be hacked to oblivion.

https://old.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/1rqk6m8/what_secret_can_you_reveal_now_that_your_nda_has/o9uegoz/

#Elsevier

Today in a new low for Elsevier, the infamous academic publisher:

"Elsevier, the company that makes a lot of the compulsory textbooks for University, commissioned scientists to develop a new book binding glue designed to fail after 3 years, as they hated that there was a second hand market."

Planned obsolescence to quell the second hand market ... if confirmed – it's the sort of thing this company would do –, may they be hacked to oblivion.

https://old.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/1rqk6m8/what_secret_can_you_reveal_now_that_your_nda_has/o9uegoz/

#Elsevier

TorrentFreak: Major Publishers Sue Anna’s Archive Over ‘Staggering’ Copyright Infringement, Seek Injunction. “A coalition of thirteen major publishers, including Penguin Random House, Elsevier, and HarperCollins, filed a new lawsuit against Anna’s Archive. The publishers allege the shadow library is facilitating “staggering” levels of piracy. While the site’s owners are not likely to […]

TorrentFreak: Major Publishers Sue Anna’s Archive Over ‘Staggering’ Copyright Infringement, Seek Injunction. “A coalition of thirteen major publishers, including Penguin Random House, Elsevier, and HarperCollins, filed a new lawsuit against Anna’s Archive. The publishers allege the shadow library is facilitating “staggering” levels of piracy. While the site’s owners are not likely to […]

Und genau das ist es, was die Ex-Verlage charakterisiert, die Umkehr des Datenflusses:

"die Daten fließen nur in eine Richtung, nämlich von der Wissenschaft zu Elsevier."

Als diese Überwachungskonzerne noch Verlage waren, war das noch die andere Richtung.

"#Datentracking bei Elsevier: Yuliya Fadeeva im Interview"

https://irights.info/artikel/datentracking-elsevier-yuliya-fadeeva-interview/32777

Mittlerweile macht, nach eigener Aussage, die Verlagstätigkeit nur noch einen Bruchteil des Umsatzes bei #Elsevier aus:

https://bjoern.brembs.net/2023/03/should-you-trust-elsevier/#comment-5670

Und genau das ist es, was die Ex-Verlage charakterisiert, die Umkehr des Datenflusses:

"die Daten fließen nur in eine Richtung, nämlich von der Wissenschaft zu Elsevier."

Als diese Überwachungskonzerne noch Verlage waren, war das noch die andere Richtung.

"#Datentracking bei Elsevier: Yuliya Fadeeva im Interview"

https://irights.info/artikel/datentracking-elsevier-yuliya-fadeeva-interview/32777

Mittlerweile macht, nach eigener Aussage, die Verlagstätigkeit nur noch einen Bruchteil des Umsatzes bei #Elsevier aus:

https://bjoern.brembs.net/2023/03/should-you-trust-elsevier/#comment-5670

Here's another article that made it through peer review (at #Elsevier) with the false claim that all #OpenAccess journals charge #APCs. www.journalofsurgicalresearch.com/article/S002... #ScholComm