{"id":20875,"date":"2022-10-31T10:05:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-31T08:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/?p=20875"},"modified":"2022-11-01T17:28:37","modified_gmt":"2022-11-01T15:28:37","slug":"surveillance-publisher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2022\/10\/surveillance-publisher\/","title":{"rendered":"Surveillance Publisher"},"content":{"rendered":"

Capitalized value<\/a>? Personalized PDFs<\/a>? DFG warning<\/a>? User tracking?<\/a> Forced marriage<\/a>? It is incredible how scientific publishers are expanding their business. Here is a new paper<\/a><\/p>\n

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This essay develops the idea of surveillance publishing, with special attention to the example of Elsevier. A scholarly publisher can be defined as a surveillance publisher if it derives a substantial proportion of its revenue from prediction products, fueled by data extracted from researcher behavior. … The products\u2019 purpose, moreover, is to streamline the top-down assessment and evaluation practices that have taken hold in recent decades. A final concern\u00a0is that scholars will internalize an analytics mindset, one already encouraged by citation counts and impact factors. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Sure, this already happens as some committees look only at lists of impact factor and grant sums. In the near future, they will switch to Elsevier`s “human ressources” management system Interfolio to compare candidates.<\/p>\n

Founded in 1999, Interfolio supports over 400 higher education institutions, research funders and academic organizations in 25 countries, and over 1.7 million academic professionals and scholars. Theo Pillay, General Manager of Research Institutional Products, Elsevier, said: \u201cInterfolio has a proven track record in supporting the academic community, thanks to its deep understanding of faculty needs, institutional workflows, research assessment and academic careers, combined with its agile technology and experienced leadership.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Back to the original article<\/p>\n

the publishing giants have long profited off of academics and our university employers\u2014by packaging scholars\u2019 unpaid writing-and-editing labor only to sell it back to us as usuriously priced subscriptions or article processing charges (APCs). That\u2019s a lucrative business that Elsevier and the others won\u2019t give up. But they\u2019re layering another business on top of their legacy publishing operations, in the Clarivate mold. The data trove that publishers are sitting on is, if anything, far richer than the citation graph alone.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Data is the new oil, indeed.<\/p>\n\n

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