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Global Campus @globalcampus.ai · 10/08/2026

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Tijmen Altena @tijmen.globalcampus.ai · 14/10/2025

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.

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Tijmen Altena @tijmen.globalcampus.ai · 28/08/2025

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".

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Tijmen Altena @tijmen.globalcampus.ai · 28/08/2025

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?

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Tijmen Altena @tijmen.globalcampus.ai · 07/05/2025

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.

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Tijmen Altena @tijmen.globalcampus.ai · 08/04/2025

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?

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Global Campus @globalcampus.ai · 17/12/2024

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Tijmen Altena @tijmen.globalcampus.ai · 29/11/2024

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.

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Tijmen Altena @tijmen.globalcampus.ai · 28/11/2024

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/...

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olivierpourret.bsky.social @olivierpourret.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

More open abstracts? Comparing abstract coverage in Crossref and OpenAlex by Bianca Kramer bmkramer.github.io/SesameOpenSc...

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More open abstracts? | Sesame Open Science

Comparing abstract coverage in Crossref and OpenAlex

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Tijmen Altena @tijmen.globalcampus.ai · 26/11/2024

Should've tagged the actual Relx Bluesky account: @relxhq.bsky.social

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Tijmen Altena @tijmen.globalcampus.ai · 22/11/2024

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.

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Tijmen Altena @tijmen.globalcampus.ai · 22/11/2024

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...)

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Bianca Kramer (@MsPhelps@akademienl.social)

Attached: 2 images 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...

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Tijmen Altena @tijmen.globalcampus.ai · 21/11/2024

After Springer in 2022, now Elsevier forbids OpenAlex to store abstracts of Closed Access papers. github.com/ourresearch/... We think this is a worrying trend, hindering the discoverability of research. @relx.bsky.social Is this what you mean with 'Empowering Open Science' ?

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