I think you're right, but the data to look at availability or historical performance of a potential reviewer isn't really out there, I guess. Some manuscript submission systems will know a lot, but even there it's siloed for particular publishers.
October 14, 2025 at 8:34 AM
I think you're right, but the data to look at availability or historical performance of a potential reviewer isn't really out there, I guess. Some manuscript submission systems will know a lot, but even there it's siloed for particular publishers.
Yeah, I appreciate that it's a primarily a researcher decision driven by a lot of other factors (brand, IF, what researchers know), it just seems to me that this is a second order effect that would ideally be a factor, e.g. "Warning: This journal has limited discoverability".
August 28, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Yeah, I appreciate that it's a primarily a researcher decision driven by a lot of other factors (brand, IF, what researchers know), it just seems to me that this is a second order effect that would ideally be a factor, e.g. "Warning: This journal has limited discoverability".
A bit of an aside - but OpenAlex does get the abstracts to use them for topic modelling etc, and then kicks them out after.
With publishers like Elsevier and Springer kneecapping discovery in this way, shouldn't libraries do more to disincentivize these publishing venues?
With publishers like Elsevier and Springer kneecapping discovery in this way, shouldn't libraries do more to disincentivize these publishing venues?
August 28, 2025 at 8:24 AM
A bit of an aside - but OpenAlex does get the abstracts to use them for topic modelling etc, and then kicks them out after.
With publishers like Elsevier and Springer kneecapping discovery in this way, shouldn't libraries do more to disincentivize these publishing venues?
With publishers like Elsevier and Springer kneecapping discovery in this way, shouldn't libraries do more to disincentivize these publishing venues?
There's actually three locations in OpenAlex:
api.openalex.org/works/W31319...
OSF, HAL and BioHackrXiv. Not sure though why they're in that order.
api.openalex.org/works/W31319...
OSF, HAL and BioHackrXiv. Not sure though why they're in that order.
api.openalex.org
May 7, 2025 at 9:39 AM
There's actually three locations in OpenAlex:
api.openalex.org/works/W31319...
OSF, HAL and BioHackrXiv. Not sure though why they're in that order.
api.openalex.org/works/W31319...
OSF, HAL and BioHackrXiv. Not sure though why they're in that order.
It's a bit rich from Springer Nature to talk about 'Openness' while being the the very first publisher to enforce deletion of abstracts of Closed Access articles in OpenAlex.
Wouldn't that be a good place to start Realising the Benefits of Openness, @schoenenberger.bsky.social?
Wouldn't that be a good place to start Realising the Benefits of Openness, @schoenenberger.bsky.social?
April 8, 2025 at 10:10 AM
It's a bit rich from Springer Nature to talk about 'Openness' while being the the very first publisher to enforce deletion of abstracts of Closed Access articles in OpenAlex.
Wouldn't that be a good place to start Realising the Benefits of Openness, @schoenenberger.bsky.social?
Wouldn't that be a good place to start Realising the Benefits of Openness, @schoenenberger.bsky.social?
There could be just the internal workflow angle for Springer Nature, as they acquired the science division of Slimmer.ai in oct 2023, which had been doing a lot of their internal reviewer identification already.
November 29, 2024 at 12:52 PM
There could be just the internal workflow angle for Springer Nature, as they acquired the science division of Slimmer.ai in oct 2023, which had been doing a lot of their internal reviewer identification already.
Hi James, there was no public announcement as far as I know, there's this git commit in the OpenAlex source code that we noticed:
github.com/ourresearch/...
github.com/ourresearch/...
do not store closed elsevier abstract · ourresearch/openalex-guts@b85b3bc
github.com
November 28, 2024 at 5:02 PM
Hi James, there was no public announcement as far as I know, there's this git commit in the OpenAlex source code that we noticed:
github.com/ourresearch/...
github.com/ourresearch/...
Should've tagged the actual Relx Bluesky account: @relxhq.bsky.social
November 26, 2024 at 9:15 AM
Should've tagged the actual Relx Bluesky account: @relxhq.bsky.social
November 22, 2024 at 7:24 PM
So perhaps the main question is how we convince publishers like Elsevier that the downstream effects of closing abstracts are significant, e.g. fewer citations, opens, and clicks because many tools cannot index the content anymore.
November 22, 2024 at 1:39 PM
So perhaps the main question is how we convince publishers like Elsevier that the downstream effects of closing abstracts are significant, e.g. fewer citations, opens, and clicks because many tools cannot index the content anymore.
I fully agree - but perhaps this is more about protecting discovery tools like Scopus for Elsevier? Bianca Kramer over at Mastodon has suggested it could be related to the value of these abstracts for Generative AI. (akademienl.social/@MsPhelps/11...)
Bianca Kramer (@MsPhelps@akademienl.social)
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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...
akademienl.social
November 22, 2024 at 8:02 AM
I fully agree - but perhaps this is more about protecting discovery tools like Scopus for Elsevier? Bianca Kramer over at Mastodon has suggested it could be related to the value of these abstracts for Generative AI. (akademienl.social/@MsPhelps/11...)