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Today in how #Elsevier ruins my mood: Pure repositories pollute #Unpaywall with garbage data.
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T396127
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@douginamug so cool! And very happy to see the article also got minor contributions from @nemobis and #OAbot, yay!
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@rmounce How sad though, «Our findings show that 42.3% (716,278) of the citations and 39.1% (450,277) publications were OA (i.e., not closed)».
60 % of citations going to paywalled journals, likely to be unreliable chasers of harmful metrics. :|
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5826185/So much work left to do. And it might be even worse elsewhere in #Wikipedia, as this is only about the English Wikipedia. (Where at least the #OAbot and other initiatives are quite active.)
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You can help add more links to open access content with #OAbot: https://oabot.toolforge.org/