#i4oa — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #i4oa, aggregated by home.social.
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So Elsevier is selling abstracts to be used in third-party discovery services (this is me assuming there is a monetary transaction)
https://www.sspnet.org/community/news/cactus-and-elsevier-join-hands-to-bring-19m-elsevier-research-abstracts-to-researchers-mobile-devices
The same Elsevier that, unlike many other publishers*, does not make abstracts publicly available through @crossref -
Some great strides have been made 2023 in providing abstracts through Crossref #openabstracts
In this @crossref
blogpost, I am highlighting some publishers (large and small) who contributed to this: I4OA Hall of Fame - 2023 editionhttps://www.crossref.org/blog/i4oa-hall-of-fame-2023-edition/
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Abstract coverage in @OpenAlex per year as a little étude in #Python.
The advantage of having an open and performant API with #OpenResearchinformation for quick investigations like can really not be overstated.