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Ross MouncePublish with Elsevier at your peril...“Williams-Hoffman was surprised to discover that the online version of the paper contained an AI-generated question and answer section immediately below the abstract. She was even more surprised to read its claim that the paper was based on just three measurements, not 51. “<a href="https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/ai-summary-trashed-authors-work-and-took-weeks-be-corrected" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/ai-summary-trashed-authors-work-and-took-weeks-be-corrected</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Elsevier" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Elsevier</a>

Robert W. GehlThis from a company making billions off the free labour of academics:<a href="https://ukrant.nl/magazine/elseviers-stranglehold-on-academia-how-publishers-get-rich-from-our-data/?lang=en" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://ukrant.nl/magazine/elseviers-stranglehold-on-academia-how-publishers-get-rich-from-our-data/?lang=en</a>2/2<a href="https://aoir.social/tags/academicChatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#academicChatter</a> <a href="https://aoir.social/tags/elsevier" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#elsevier</a>

tschenkelI appreciate the irony in my university inviting me to a workshop on Ethics in Scientific Publishing, hosted by Elsevier.<a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/publishing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#publishing</a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#science</a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/elsevier" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#elsevier</a>

Mario AngstWe've got a new annual report by RELX (the company running <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Elsevier" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Elsevier</a>). <a href="https://www.relx.com/media/press-releases/year-2025/annual-report-2024" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.relx.com/media/press-releases/year-2025/annual-report-2024</a>The profit margins continue to be absurd. It just escapes how we can be fine as researchers with throwing public money at these companies.<a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/scientificpublishing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#scientificpublishing</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#academia</a>

Djoerd Hiemstra 🟥Three British universities (including the University of Sheffield ) have decided not to continue their <a href="https://idf.social/tags/Elsevier" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Elsevier</a> read-and-publish deals! <a href="https://idf.social/tags/OpenAccess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OpenAccess</a> <a href="https://www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?story=20250211161002365" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?story=20250211161002365</a>

petersuberPeter Barr explains why three UK <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/universities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#universities</a> recently cancelled their <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Elsevier" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Elsevier</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/ReadAndPublish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ReadAndPublish</a> agreements and why these deals are unsustainable. <a href="https://www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?story=20250211161002365" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?story=20250211161002365</a>PS: My own objections to these deals overlap significantly with Barr's. See the <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/BOAI20" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BOAI20</a> Recommendation 4 ("Move away from read-and-publish agreements"). <a href="https://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/boai20/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/boai20/</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Cancellations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Cancellations</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/OpenAccess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OpenAccess</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/ScholComm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ScholComm</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Academia</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/academicchatter" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@academicchatter</a>

Stephen RoyleFunder email: “Information entered on Researchfish is collected on behalf of the funders and cannot be used for commercial purposes.”Good to clarify this since <a href="https://biologists.social/tags/Researchfish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Researchfish</a> is a product from Interfolio, who were acquired by the RELX company <a href="https://biologists.social/tags/Elsevier" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Elsevier</a> in 2022. As such they have a unique market advantage in handling data which is potentially commercially sensitive and that has been disclosed by grantees under mandate.

Journal of Political EcologyLyall, A., Ortiz, M. & Billo, E., (2025) “Greenwashing at Elsevier: A political ecology of corporate publishing”, Journal of Political Ecology 32(1): 6276. doi: <a href="https://doi.org/10.2458/jpe.6276" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.2458/jpe.6276</a><a href="https://sciences.social/tags/politicalecology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#politicalecology</a> <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/radicalOA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#radicalOA</a> <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/elsevier" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#elsevier</a>

small circle 🕊 in calmness<a href="https://social.coop/tags/Showerthought" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Showerthought</a> 🤔1. <a href="https://social.coop/tags/Business" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Business</a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/paywall" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#paywall</a>? 😫2. <a href="https://social.coop/tags/CommercialScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CommercialScience</a> wall 🤢3. <a href="https://social.coop/tags/OpenScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OpenScience</a> delight 😍<a href="https://delightful.club/delightful-open-science" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://delightful.club/delightful-open-science</a>"Commercial science" is a good term to denounce this shady practice that withholds knowledge and wisdom discovered with public money in order to use it for <a href="https://social.coop/tags/HyperCapitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HyperCapitalism</a> and its greed fests.Yes, you <a href="https://social.coop/tags/Elsevier" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Elsevier</a> & co.

Albert CardonaLatest horror from Elsevier: published scientific manuscripts littered with links whose ALT text says:"Learn more about common descent from ScienceDirect's AI-generated Topic Pages"Like trying to discredit published research papers by pointing to AI-generated drivel?<a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Elsevier" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Elsevier</a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/RELX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RELX</a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#academia</a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/ScientificPublishing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ScientificPublishing</a>

Walled CulturePublisher’s cost cutting, including the botched use of AI, pushes editors of top journal to resignWalled Culture has noted previously the fabulous levels of profit that many academic publishers have achieved, largely through the abuse of copyright, as explained in Walled Culture the book (free digital versions). And yet those levels are apparently not enough for perhaps the most successful of the academic publishers, Elsevier. A story on the site Retraction Watch reports on the mass […]<a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://walledculture.org/tag/academic-publishing/" target="_blank">#academicPublishing</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://walledculture.org/tag/access-to-knowledge/" target="_blank">#AccessToKnowledge</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://walledculture.org/tag/accessibility/" target="_blank">#accessibility</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://walledculture.org/tag/ai/" target="_blank">#ai</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://walledculture.org/tag/apc/" target="_blank">#apc</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://walledculture.org/tag/copyediting/" target="_blank">#copyediting</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://walledculture.org/tag/editing/" target="_blank">#editing</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://walledculture.org/tag/elsevier/" target="_blank">#elsevier</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://walledculture.org/tag/journals/" target="_blank">#journals</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://walledculture.org/tag/open-access/" target="_blank">#openAccess</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://walledculture.org/tag/production/" target="_blank">#production</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://walledculture.org/tag/profits/" target="_blank">#profits</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://walledculture.org/tag/resignations/" target="_blank">#resignations</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://walledculture.org/tag/retractions/" target="_blank">#retractions</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://walledculture.org/tag/subscriptions/" target="_blank">#subscriptions</a><a href="https://walledculture.org/publishers-cost-cutting-including-the-botched-use-of-ai-pushes-editors-of-top-journal-to-resign/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://walledculture.org/publishers-cost-cutting-including-the-botched-use-of-ai-pushes-editors-of-top-journal-to-resign/</a>

petersuberThe U of Surrey just cancelled its <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/ReadAndPublish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ReadAndPublish</a> agreement with <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Elsevier" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Elsevier</a>, less than one month after the U of Sheffield did the same. <a href="https://www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-universities-2025-1-uk-university-drops-elsevier-deal/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-universities-2025-1-uk-university-drops-elsevier-deal/</a><a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Academia</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Journals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Journals</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/OpenAccess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OpenAccess</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/ScholComm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ScholComm</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/academicchatter" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@academicchatter</a>

Manuel 'HonkHase' Atug"Höchst peinliche" Einführung von <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/KI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#KI</a>: Redaktion von <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Wissenschaftsmagazin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Wissenschaftsmagazin</a> kündigt"Ein renommiertes Forschungsmagazin verliert fast die komplette Redaktion. Die kritisiert unter anderem eine nicht abgestimmte, problematische Einführung von KI.Das Vorgehen des Wissenschaftsverlags <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Elsevier" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Elsevier</a>, der das JHE herausgibt, widerspreche fundamental dessen Ethos, schreibt die Redaktion dort. Außerdem kritisiert sie die hohen Abogebühren des Magazins..." <a href="https://www.heise.de/news/Hoechst-peinliche-Einfuehrung-von-KI-Redaktion-von-Wissenschaftsmagazin-kuendigt-10223994.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.heise.de/news/Hoechst-peinliche-Einfuehrung-von-KI-Redaktion-von-Wissenschaftsmagazin-kuendigt-10223994.html</a>

Christian Pietsch<a href="https://social.heise.de/@heiseonline" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@heiseonline</a> <a href="https://fedifreu.de/tags/Elsevier" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Elsevier</a> mal wieder.

Ralf StockmannDie Spezialexperten (nicht gegendert) bei <a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/elsevier" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#elsevier</a> machen Sachen mit <a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/ki" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ki</a> und wirklich niemand ist über die Ergebnisse überrascht:<a href="https://www.heise.de/news/Hoechst-peinliche-Einfuehrung-von-KI-Redaktion-von-Wissenschaftsmagazin-kuendigt-10223994.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.heise.de/news/Hoechst-peinliche-Einfuehrung-von-KI-Redaktion-von-Wissenschaftsmagazin-kuendigt-10223994.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon</a>

David Hull 胡大衛"When the board expressed the need for a copy editor, Elsevier's response, they said, was "to maintain that the editors should not be paying attention to language, grammar, readability, consistency, or accuracy of proper nomenclature or formatting.""<a href="https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/12/journal-editors-resign-to-protest-ai-use-high-fees-and-more/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/12/journal-editors-resign-to-protest-ai-use-high-fees-and-more/</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HigherEducation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HigherEducation</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Elsevier" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Elsevier</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AcademicJournals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AcademicJournals</a>

petersuberThe editorial board of the 52-yr old _Journal of Human Evolution_ just resigned to protest <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Elsevier" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Elsevier</a>'s interference with editorial practices, reducing journal quality, and insistence on a high <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/APC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#APC</a> ($3990), reducing its affordability to authors in the field. "We all care deeply about the journal, our discipline, and our academic community; however, we find we can no longer work with Elsevier in good conscience." <a href="https://retractionwatch.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Social-Media-Statement-re-JHE-Resignations.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://retractionwatch.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Social-Media-Statement-re-JHE-Resignations.pdf</a>There's no sign yet that the editors will launch a new <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/OpenAccess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OpenAccess</a> journal somewhere else. So I've not yet added it to the <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/OAD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OAD</a> list of journal <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/DeclarationsOfIndependence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DeclarationsOfIndependence</a> <a href="https://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/Journal_declarations_of_independence" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/Journal_declarations_of_independence</a><a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Resignations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Resignations</a>

Craig Aaen Stockdale<a href="https://archaeo.social/@mrundkvist" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@mrundkvist</a> In other news: sky blue. The use of the phrase “gone bad” implies, as other commentators here have mentioned, that there existed some fantastical era when <a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/Elsevier" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Elsevier</a> wasn’t the most despicable, parasitic, rapacious company ever to have set foot on a campus. Such a time does not, to my mind, exist.

Martin RundkvistMass resignation of the editorial board of the Journal of Human <a href="https://archaeo.social/tags/Evolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Evolution</a>. <a href="https://archaeo.social/tags/Elsevier" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Elsevier</a> has gone bad. Very bad, in fact.<a href="https://archaeo.social/tags/academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#academia</a> <a href="https://archaeo.social/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#science</a> <a href="https://archaeo.social/tags/publishing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#publishing</a> <a href="https://archaeo.social/tags/paleoanthropology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#paleoanthropology</a>

Universitätsbibliothek TUHH“You reap what you sow. On average, publications from <a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/MDPI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MDPI</a> may be less complex, but there is also a lot of nonsense from the other publishers (<a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/Elsevier" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Elsevier</a>, <a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/Wiley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Wiley</a>, <a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/Springer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Springer</a>, etc.) MDPI is unbeatably fast. When you consider that feedback from other publishers sometimes takes over 12 months (not because there are so many iterations, but because there is no feedback) and we are constantly forced to publish quickly […], MDPI simply takes advantage of the system we have created.”

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