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Till Grallert<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fedihum.org/@christof" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>christof</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fediscience.org/@ElenLeFoll" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>ElenLeFoll</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://hcommons.social/@proghist" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>proghist</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@creativecommons" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>creativecommons</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://scholar.social/@dingemansemark" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>dingemansemark</span></a></span> </p><p>This is getting worse by the minute. I followed <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fedihum.org/@christof" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>christof</span></a></span>|s hint concerning the reproduction of articles from <a href="https://digitalcourage.social/tags/DHQ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DHQ</span></a> / <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://hcommons.social/@DHQuarterly" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>DHQuarterly</span></a></span> looking for one of my own papers (<a href="https://digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/16/2/000593/000593.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/</span><span class="invisible">16/2/000593/000593.html</span></a>). </p><p>In this case <a href="https://digitalcourage.social/tags/ProQuest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ProQuest</span></a> blatantly violates the CC BY-ND license (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">http://</span><span class="ellipsis">creativecommons.org/licenses/b</span><span class="invisible">y-nd/4.0/</span></a>) by</p><p>- not mentioning the license<br>- producing a derivative<br>- not linking to the original</p><p>I am very much in favour of <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://adho.org/@adho.org" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>adho.org</span></a></span>, as the publisher of <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://hcommons.social/@DHQuarterly" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>DHQuarterly</span></a></span>, following the path outlined by <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://scholar.social/@dingemansemark" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>dingemansemark</span></a></span>. I will also log a complaint with <a href="https://digitalcourage.social/tags/ProQuest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ProQuest</span></a> through my employer.</p><p><a href="https://digitalcourage.social/tags/AcademicPublishing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AcademicPublishing</span></a> <a href="https://digitalcourage.social/tags/Licensing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Licensing</span></a> <a href="https://digitalcourage.social/tags/Piracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Piracy</span></a> <a href="https://digitalcourage.social/tags/PlatformCapitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PlatformCapitalism</span></a> <a href="https://digitalcourage.social/tags/PredatoryPublishing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PredatoryPublishing</span></a></p>
Till Grallert<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fedihum.org/@christof" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>christof</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fediscience.org/@ElenLeFoll" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>ElenLeFoll</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://hcommons.social/@proghist" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>proghist</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@creativecommons" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>creativecommons</span></a></span> </p><p>After reading through the CC BY license I am none the wiser whether one has to clearly indicate that the material in question had been originally published somewhere else. The DOI as provided by <a href="https://digitalcourage.social/tags/ProQuest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ProQuest</span></a> reveals this fact but only after manually parsing the string with a resolver. Readers unfamiliar with the Programming Historian are made to believe that ProQuest is the original publisher or the platform officially hosting the original content. </p><p>However, ProQuest clearly violates the attribution requirements by modifying the layout and removing images. The CC BY license explicitly states that “You must […] indicate if You modified the Licensed Material”.</p><p><a href="https://digitalcourage.social/tags/AcademicPublishing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AcademicPublishing</span></a> <a href="https://digitalcourage.social/tags/PredatoryPublishing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PredatoryPublishing</span></a> <a href="https://digitalcourage.social/tags/OpenLicenses" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenLicenses</span></a> <a href="https://digitalcourage.social/tags/CreativeCommons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CreativeCommons</span></a> <a href="https://digitalcourage.social/tags/DigitalHumanities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DigitalHumanities</span></a></p>
Christof Schöch<p><a href="https://fedihum.org/tags/ProQuest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ProQuest</span></a> + <a href="https://fedihum.org/tags/GoogleScholar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GoogleScholar</span></a> = scam? Exhibit #123: </p><p>- Researcher publishes article in journal, using <a href="https://fedihum.org/tags/CC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CC</span></a> BY. <br>- ProQuest republishes article, with author, title, date, DOI, licence. Also, with terrible layout, but without images. <br>- Their DOI doesn't link anywhere. You need to type "https:/doi.org/", add the DOI, paste URL, to find the actual publication. Grey zone of CC BY requirements? <br>- GS indexes the publication and provides the ProQuest link instead of the proper URL. </p><p>Aaargh.</p>
petersuber<p>"As <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/ProQuest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ProQuest</span></a> exits the print book market, will we see a new era of <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/bigdeals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bigdeals</span></a> for <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/ebooks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ebooks</span></a>?"<br><a href="https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2025/02/21/as-proquest-exits-the-print-book-market-will-we-see-a-new-era-of-big-deals-for-ebooks/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocial</span><span class="invisible">sciences/2025/02/21/as-proquest-exits-the-print-book-market-will-we-see-a-new-era-of-big-deals-for-ebooks/</span></a></p><p>"Commercial publishers prefer institutions to sign up to a leasing <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/subscription" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>subscription</span></a> model, as they offer little in the way of perpetual rights. This means that if a <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Library" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Library</span></a> decides to cancel, they have no owned content to show for their expenditure."</p><p>PS: I hope <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/libraries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>libraries</span></a> steer clear of this atrocious model. It uses their real need for access against them. If they're desperate enough to buy a subscription, they're letting their desperation lead them into a trap.</p><p><a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a></p>
petersuber<p><a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Clarivate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Clarivate</span></a> will support conversational <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> in its tools and allow an AI company to train on its <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/paywalled" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>paywalled</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/data" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>data</span></a>. <br><a href="https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/clarivate-announces-partnership-with-ai21-labs-as-part-of-its-generative-ai-strategy-to-drive-growth-301857301.html" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">prnewswire.com/news-releases/c</span><span class="invisible">larivate-announces-partnership-with-ai21-labs-as-part-of-its-generative-ai-strategy-to-drive-growth-301857301.html</span></a></p><p>Or at least that's my plain-language summary of a pretty opaque press release.</p><p>Note that Clarivate owns or controls the <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/WebOfScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WebOfScience</span></a>, <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/JournalImpactFactor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JournalImpactFactor</span></a> (<a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/JIF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JIF</span></a>) data, <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Publons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Publons</span></a>, <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/EndNote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EndNote</span></a>, <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/ScholarOne" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ScholarOne</span></a>, and <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/ProQuest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ProQuest</span></a>.</p>
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