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@oatp Wenn ich in 1 Bibliothek Entscheidungen über E-Ressourcen und die Anbieter, bei denen ich erwerbe treffen müsste, würde ich genau gar nichts machen.

Sondern zusehen wie die Abschaffung von Perpetual Access bei der Erwerbung von E-Books auf der Plattform #EbookCentral (#ProQuest bzw. #Clarivate) und das alleinige Angebot von befristeten Lizenzen meine Universität/Hochschule/Forschungseinrichtung dazu verleitet bibliotheksunabhängig ins Streaming-Game einzusteigen.

#libraries #databases #ProQuest #Clarivate

"The removal of perpetual purchases from Clarivate’s sales models runs counter to library values of long-term preservation and access to information. Subscriptions might work for some libraries, but perpetual purchases are important for the preservation of the written record, especially at research institutions."

katinamagazine.org/content/art

Katina Magazine | Annual ReviewsA Master Class in Destroying TrustClarivate’s “transformative subscription-based strategy” caught the library world flat-footed. How did this happen? And where do we go from here?
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Update. First see the #SCONUL objections to the #Clarivate model, which I inadvertently failed to put in this thread.
fediscience.org/@petersuber/11

Second, see the Clarivate response to #library objections.
researchinformation.info/news/

"We acknowledge that…ownership [is] essential to libraries’ missions, and is the primary way you acquire content. Subscription models are just one component of your collection and access strategies. Our ebook subscriptions are not designed to replace perpetual front-list and textbook purchases and budgets…We remain unequivocally committed to preserving perpetual access to previously purchased Ebook Central titles."

But only to previously purchased titles, and future books purchased through #Rialto. The atrocious model stands for other #books purchased after June 30, 2026.

FediScience.orgpetersuber (@petersuber@fediscience.org)Kudos to the Society of College, National and University Libraries (#SCONUL) for its open letter opposing the #Clarivate decision to stop letting #libraries buy perpetual access to #books. https://www.sconul.ac.uk/News/View?g=b152a767-3daa-4676-b84a-ca18eb7c2bec&t= "The UK academic and research library community is profoundly concerned and disappointed at Clarivate's recent decision to discontinue the option for perpetual purchase of academic resources, as announced in your new subscription-based access strategy. This decision poses significant challenges to the sustainability and financial stability of academic and research libraries worldwide. Perpetual access to scholarly content – in both physical and electronic forms - is a cornerstone of libraries' mission to provide long-term, reliable access to knowledge." #Academia #Universities @academicchatter@a.gup.pe

Kudos to the Society of College, National and University Libraries (#SCONUL) for its open letter opposing the #Clarivate decision to stop letting #libraries buy perpetual access to #books.
sconul.ac.uk/News/View?g=b152a

"The UK academic and research library community is profoundly concerned and disappointed at Clarivate's recent decision to discontinue the option for perpetual purchase of academic resources, as announced in your new subscription-based access strategy. This decision poses significant challenges to the sustainability and financial stability of academic and research libraries worldwide. Perpetual access to scholarly content – in both physical and electronic forms - is a cornerstone of libraries' mission to provide long-term, reliable access to knowledge."

#Academia #Universities
@academicchatter

www.sconul.ac.ukSCONUL | Society of College, National and University Libraries

#Clarivate stopping the ability to buy books outright "represents a troubling shift in the power dynamics between academic libraries and commercial providers, especially those who hold (near) monopolies. The lack of customer consultation before this announcement demonstrates how this pattern of market consolidation can lead to unilateral decision-making that disregards the needs of libraries."

Yes. They are not out partners. They are out (would-be) masters. Simple as.

uksg.org/newsletter/uksg-enews

UKSGOPINION: A librarian's summary of, and response to, the Clarivate announcement - UKSGSiobhan Haimé takes a look at detail the Clarivate announcement and its practical (and possibly unintentional transformational) effects.

#Clarivate have announced today they will phase out one-time perpetual purchases of digital collections, print and digital books for libraries this year. As of 2026, libraries will only be able to license their content for a limited period of time. This is very bad news for academic and research libraries. Over time, this will force libraries to cancel subscriptions, as the #serials_crisis has made abundantly clear in the past. And they will not even be able to maintain their collections.

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@ORCID_Org
As your website states:

"A key ORCID principle is that you are in control of the data on your ORCID record, including who you share it with. "

But that is not true if deleting my profile in a completely separate company (Clarivate) that I did not originally agree to share my Publons data with ends up deleting my reviews from my orcid record, right?

source: support.orcid.org/hc/en-us/art
#ORCID #Clarivate #Publons

I recently deleted my #Clarivate researcher profile because I don't think I ever agreed to it being created from my #Publons profile in the first place.. And it automatically deleted half of my peer-review record in #Orcid! Without even asking me! Apparently it had writing access to it, but I don't remember agreeing to that either.

Anyone had this problem and managed to recover the deleted records in Orcid? I emailed them but no news so far..

Following up on the #eLife / #Clarivate saga, DORA has posted a statement:
sfdora.org/2024/11/25/clarivat

extracts:

"This development reinforces how a commercial entity such as Clarivate, can, through its ownership of scholarly databases and indices, hold the academic community to ransom. Clarivate’s announcement is disappointing as it both punishes innovation in peer review and disregards the important role of authors in deciding how and where their research should be published."

"As funders and institutions increasingly move away from using single metrics to assess research(ers), the role of Journal Impact Factors is becoming increasingly irrelevant."

"We therefore support eLife and encourage it to continue its innovation and encourage other journals to consider doing the same."

Go #eLife, Go AWAY #ImpactFactor!

DORA · Clarivate's actions regarding eLife: DORA's response | DORAThe Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA) recognizes the need to improve the ways in which the outputs of scholarly research are evaluated.

Published today: 20 years of bibliometric data illustrates a lack of concordance between journal impact factor and fungal species discovery in systematic mycology doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.110.1

cc @eLife

The conclusion section is superb.
(direct quote coming in the next post...)

MycoKeys20 years of bibliometric data illustrates a lack of concordance between journal impact factor and fungal species discovery in systematic mycologyJournal impact factors were devised to qualify and compare university library holdings but are frequently repurposed for use in ranking applications, research papers, and even individual applicants in mycology and beyond. The widely held assumption that mycological studies published in journals with high impact factors add more to systematic mycology than studies published in journals without high impact factors nevertheless lacks evidential underpinning. The present study uses the species hypothesis system of the UNITE database for molecular identification of fungi and other eukaryotes to trace the publication history and impact factor of sequences uncovering new fungal species hypotheses. The data show that journal impact factors are poor predictors of discovery potential in systematic mycology. There is no clear relationship between journal impact factor and the discovery of new species hypotheses for the years 2000–2021. On the contrary, we found journals with low, and even no, impact factor to account for substantial parts of the species hypothesis landscape, often discovering new fungal taxa that are only later picked up by journals with high impact factors. Funding agencies and hiring committees that insist on upholding journal impact factors as a central funding and recruitment criterion in systematic mycology should consider using indicators such as research quality, productivity, outreach activities, review services for scientific journals, and teaching ability directly rather than using publication in high impact factor journals as a proxy for these indicators.

Found a publishing venue where basically @OpenAlex is the only database that indexes it!

Rapid Reviews\Infectious Diseases [ISSN: 2692-4072] aka Rapid Reviews COVID-19

(winner of the 2022 PROSE Award for Innovation in Journal Publishing)

Web of Science ❌
Scopus ❌
DOAJ ❌
Scilit ❌
OpenAlex ✅

Publishing innovation really is challenging the indexers isn't it?

openalex.org/works?filter=prim

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