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jonny (good kind)

The Law360 union, editors at LexisNexis and RELX owned publication Law360, are on a ULP strike. They've been bargaining since November 2022, management has refused a proposal that would give the union control over health insurance, and has illegally laid off unionized workers.
newsguild.org/law360-journalis

The NewsGuild - CWA · Law360 journalists go on strike | The NewsGuild - TNG-CWA
#Law360#LexisNexis#RELX
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Björn Brembs

Unfortunately behind a paywall, but a former #Elsevier #RELX employee has sued the corporation for greenwashing:

news.bloomberglaw.com/esg/dutc

law360.com/employment-authorit

some quotes:

According to the complaint, Lyall discovered in 2020 that the companies were "actively supporting fossil fuel expansion while they pledged to protect the climate as part of their public-facing marketing."

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news.bloomberglaw.com · Dutch Publisher Sued by Ex-Employee Over Greenwashing ConcernsBy Clara Hudson
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RenkeSiems

2/ Was das Besondere der wissenschaftlichen Infrastrukturen in diesem Überwachungswahn ist: sie sind Teil der Vorgeschichte. In dem Moment, als die Wissenschaft sich mit Verbreitung des Internets rasant digitalisierte, suchten die großen Player wie Reed Elsevier (heute ) und nach Alternativen – sie fürchteten, abgehängt zu werden.

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Albert Cardona

@jni @brembs

If given the amount of data out there on #RELX (and Springer Nature) the authors remain intent on submitting to their journals, there’s not much you can do. At this point throwing data at such authors doesn’t work anymore. Instead, you could try telling them about Robert Maxwell theguardian.com/science/2017/j , about how journals don’t have to be expensive to be respectable archive.blogs.harvard.edu/pamp and drop some shade, with comments like “do you think your grant funder will be happy to see the work published there?”. It’s not like they don’t know – they can’t not know –, it’s that they are still calculating impact towards career advancement as a function of journal impact factor. And sadly, for many institutions, they aren’t wrong.

At least try to get them to send to Science or PNAS, which are meant to be societies for scientists rather than an unapologetically exploitative business.

The Guardian · Is the staggeringly profitable business of scientific publishing bad for science?By Stephen Buranyi
#ScientificPublishing
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RenkeSiems

Da auch im Bereich aktiv ist und z.B. in England für den die -Plattform betreibt, dürfte somit die Infrastruktur verfügbar sein, die braucht, um die Nutzungsrechte an den Forschungsdaten, die sie sich auf Basis des -Vertrags einräumen, auch umzusetzen. , damals noch Reed Elsevier, war einer der ersten Investoren bei Palantir, die Firmen arbeiten bis heute eng zusammen.

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jonny (good kind)

Folks this #LexisNexis risk assessment product that vacuums up all automotive data and uses it to raise your insurance rates is none other than the offspring of #RELX, parent of #Elsevier. Far from being an isolated product unrelated to scholarly publishing, year after year in their promotional material they boast how these are integrated systems at both a technical and operational level - your prestige publications fund this, and your professional metrics sold via SciVal are part of the same pool of data.

Who wants to bet that funders wont blink at an "aggregated funding risk score that draws from our proprietary analytics data for a whole-researcher productivity profile." We're beyond surveillance conspiracy theories, these products are here today, and every prestige publication makes us complicit and digs the grave for our own profession.

mastodon.social/@kashhill/1120

MastodonKashmir Hill (@kashhill@mastodon.social)Attached: 2 images My story about how telematics data from people's cars unexpectedly raised their insurance rates is on the front page today... https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/11/technology/carmakers-driver-tracking-insurance.html?unlocked_article_code=1.b00.DzhQ.GXkvg-kgWebx&smid=url-share ... and this is where it started: me lurking on car forums and seeing comments like this. If this story doesn't convince lawmakers we need a strong federal privacy law, I'm not sure what will.
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jonny (good kind)

If anyone wants to talk about "predatory publishers," youre looking at em. #Frontiers is nothing, they just play the game set up by the larger publishers. The call is coming from inside the house - #RELX is the one pushing higher article volumes every year. RELX is the one building the research intelligence platforms that set the value of research and researchers. Blaming #MDPI and #Hindawi and others not only misses the dynamics of the market, it plays directly into the big publisher's ad copy where they claim only they can protect Truth.

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jonny (good kind)

3 billion profit on 9 billion revenue is an absolutely monstrous profit margin. Higher than banks (JPMorgan: 28%), tech (Apple: 27%, Alphabet: 21%, Meta: 20%), fossil fuels (chevron: 15%, exxon: 13%) fintech, weapons manufacturers (Lockheed martin: 10%), prescription drugs (Merck: 24%).

Its so profitable because they do so little and are able to extort from so many. They were only able to develop into these surveillance driven profit megaliths because academics unconditionally paid for the privilege of prestige with public funds. Anyone who participates in this system needs to reckon with their role in propping up the core informatics platform used in ICE's deportation machine, in the new generation of biomedical surveillance tech used to opaquely deny coverage, and in the plunder and privatization of what should be the shared, global attempt to understand our reality.

Its not just about the papers, though thats the easiest thing to solve by an immediate unconditional boycott: nothing of value would be lost. We've spawned an industry that now squeezes the life out of the rest of what our research touches, medicine, law, energy, and the rest. Have we no courage, have we no shame?
#RELX #Elsevier

Adjusted operating margin for RELX: Risk: 37% Science, technical, medical: 38% Legal: 21% Exhibitions: 28% Total: 33%
Revenue Risk: 3.1B STM: 3B Legal: 1.8B Exhibitions: 1.1B RELX: 9.1B
Adjusted operating profit: Risk: 1.1B STM: 1.1B Legal: 400m Exhibitons: 319m Total: 3B
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jonny (good kind)

For #Elsevier / #RELX and other massive industrial publishers, increase in paper volume in #APC-driven open access is the main source of growth that is presented to investors. More papers needed to stay afloat in always-increasing proprietary bibliometric sea, bigger profits. On the other end of the business, surveillance backed analytics tools to insurance companies and law enforcement is the biggest growth driver.

These are the companies we have paid billions in public money to over a generation. Another 13% hike in profits, now £3 billion annually. When will we find the courage to say enough is enough?

relx.com/~/media/Files/R/RELX-

Yeah, hi, good morning. Thanks for taking the questions too from me. Firstly on STM, can you give us some metrics on the journals business for this year? Submissions, articles published, growth in number of paid‐to‐publish articles? That would be very helpful just to understand the dynamics there. Thanks. Erik Engstrom: On STM, in the journal business, as you know, the main driver of that business is the long‐term volume growth in the industry. The long‐term driver, of course, is the increase in number of researchers in the world that continues to grow and we expect to continue to grow. But how that then impacts their research activity and submission to us is a key driver, and the number of article submissions to us increased significantly last year. back to very strong growth, even if you take a two‐year average, not just the very strong one we had last year. When it comes to the submission to pay‐to‐ publish, that grew even faster. We're talking now at, depending on how you define some of the ones where they opt later, we're talking about submission growth rates in the 30% plus category, and we're talking about number of articles published in pay‐to‐publish, growing at 20 or 20‐30% range in the past year. So it's very continued, very strong growth and that looks very healthy to us.
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petersuber

"Elsevier parent reports 10% hike in profits for 2023"
researchprofessionalnews.com/r

"The parent company of scholarly publishing giant #Elsevier reported a 10% increase in its profitability in 2023… As in previous recent years, #Relx again flagged that evolution of the payment model in scholarly publishing remains a risk for the company."

Research Professional News · Elsevier parent reports 10% hike in profits for 2023 - Research Professional NewsRelx made 2023 net profit of £1.79 billion on revenue of £9.16bn
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George Macgregor

Navigating Risk in Vendor Data Privacy Practices: An Analysis of #Elsevier's #ScienceDirect

[ScienceDirect deploy] "a variety of data #privacy practices that directly conflict with library #privacy standards, and raises important questions regarding the potential for personal data collected from academic products to be used in the data brokering and #surveillance products of #RELX's #LexisNexis subsidiary."

Good to see @sparc giving this wider attention.

zenodo.org/records/10078610

ZenodoNavigating Risk in Vendor Data Privacy Practices: An Analysis of Elsevier's ScienceDirectNavigating Risk in Vendor Data Privacy Practices: An Analysis of Elsevier's ScienceDirect documents a variety of data privacy practices that directly conflict with library privacy standards, and raises important questions regarding the potential for personal data collected from academic products to be used in the data brokering and surveillance products of RELX's LexisNexis subsidiary.By analyzing the privacy practices of the world's largest publisher, the report describes how user tracking that would be unthinkable in a physical library setting now happens routinely through publisher platforms. The analysis underlines the concerns this tracking should raise, particularly when the same company is involved in surveillance and data brokering activities. Elsevier is a subsidiary of RELX, a leading data broker and provider of "risk" products that offer expansive databases of personal information to corporations, governments, and law enforcement agencies. As much of the research lifecycle shifts to online platforms owned by a small number of companies, the report highlights why users and institutions should actively evaluate and address the potential privacy risks as this transition occurs rather than after it is complete.
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