#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

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