#openabstracts — Public Fediverse posts

🚨 If AI #discovery is the sports car, then #OpenAbstracts are the fuel.

Loss of abstracts from major publishers (Elsevier, SpringerNature…) means:
❌ weaker #AIDiscovery
❌ reduced #searchability
❌ setbacks for #OpenScience & #bibliometrics

At stake: not just tools, but researchers’ ability to scope, filter & save time.

👉 We need advocacy for open #metadata
👉 Researcher awareness of limits & #biases
👉 Higher #OpenAccess rates

https://open.substack.com/pub/aarontay/p/the-petrol-tank-for-ai-discovery

#libraries #AIResearch #scholcomm #AI

🚨 If AI #discovery is the sports car, then #OpenAbstracts are the fuel.

Loss of abstracts from major publishers (Elsevier, SpringerNature…) means:
❌ weaker #AIDiscovery
❌ reduced #searchability
❌ setbacks for #OpenScience & #bibliometrics

At stake: not just tools, but researchers’ ability to scope, filter & save time.

👉 We need advocacy for open #metadata
👉 Researcher awareness of limits & #biases
👉 Higher #OpenAccess rates

https://open.substack.com/pub/aarontay/p/the-petrol-tank-for-ai-discovery

#libraries #AIResearch #scholcomm #AI

🚨 If AI #discovery is the sports car, then #OpenAbstracts are the fuel.

Loss of abstracts from major publishers (Elsevier, SpringerNature…) means:
❌ weaker #AIDiscovery
❌ reduced #searchability
❌ setbacks for #OpenScience & #bibliometrics

At stake: not just tools, but researchers’ ability to scope, filter & save time.

👉 We need advocacy for open #metadata
👉 Researcher awareness of limits & #biases
👉 Higher #OpenAccess rates

https://open.substack.com/pub/aarontay/p/the-petrol-tank-for-ai-discovery

#libraries #AIResearch #scholcomm #AI

🚨 If AI #discovery is the sports car, then #OpenAbstracts are the fuel.

Loss of abstracts from major publishers (Elsevier, SpringerNature…) means:
❌ weaker #AIDiscovery
❌ reduced #searchability
❌ setbacks for #OpenScience & #bibliometrics

At stake: not just tools, but researchers’ ability to scope, filter & save time.

👉 We need advocacy for open #metadata
👉 Researcher awareness of limits & #biases
👉 Higher #OpenAccess rates

https://open.substack.com/pub/aarontay/p/the-petrol-tank-for-ai-discovery

#libraries #AIResearch #scholcomm #AI

🚨 If AI #discovery is the sports car, then #OpenAbstracts are the fuel.

Loss of abstracts from major publishers (Elsevier, SpringerNature…) means:
❌ weaker #AIDiscovery
❌ reduced #searchability
❌ setbacks for #OpenScience & #bibliometrics

At stake: not just tools, but researchers’ ability to scope, filter & save time.

👉 We need advocacy for open #metadata
👉 Researcher awareness of limits & #biases
👉 Higher #OpenAccess rates

https://open.substack.com/pub/aarontay/p/the-petrol-tank-for-ai-discovery

#libraries #AIResearch #scholcomm #AI

We are seeing increased commodification of abstracts - perhaps not surprising given their importance in GenAI.

In 2022, SpringerNature had abstracts from
'their' non-open access articles removed from @OpenAlex

Now Elsevier appears to have done the same.

https://github.com/ourresearch/openalex-guts/commit/b85b3bc77cf9c0f3bd162426a2ba0dacdc951065

Needless to say, neither provide abstracts for these articles to @crossref either: https://i4oa.org/#:~:text=The%20following%20figure.

Is this how open we want research abstracts to be?

#openmetadata #openabstracts
#barcelonadeclaration

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

*see https://i4oa.org/#:~:text=figure

#openabstracts #I4OA

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 edition

https://www.crossref.org/blog/i4oa-hall-of-fame-2023-edition/

#openabstracts #openmetadata #I4OA

OpenCitations is part of the CoARA Working Group Towards Open Infrastructures for Responsible Research Assessment (OI4RRA)

:doi: https://doi.org/10.59350/wpdyk-ad420 #OpenAbstracts #OpenAcademicAnalytics #OpenAccess #OpenScholarship #OpenScience

#OpenAccess is naturally ideal, but being allowed to collect, analyse & publish their abstracts would already help a lot. #OpenAbstracts
https://medium.com/a-academic-librarians-thoughts-on-open-access/why-openly-available-abstracts-are-important-overview-of-the-current-state-of-affairs-bb7bde1ed751

We would be happy to scrape the abstracts from the web. Is there a group with good lawyers in the Open Community willing to stand up to the publisher & publish the abstracts? #PleaseBoost

Some claim abstracts are part of the EU Text & Data Mining exception for research. But the I4OA claims this is not allowed. https://i4oa.org