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  1. Waldenpond (waldenpond@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 02-Oct-2017 19:52:05 EDT Waldenpond Waldenpond

    Elsevier Launching Rival to Wikipedia [...a commercial outfit mines what are often publicly-funded texts... is deeply hypocritical, since Elsevier's own policy on text and data mining forbids other companies from doing the same. It's an...example of how Elsevier uses its near-monopolistic stranglehold over academic publishing for... competitive advantage. Maybe it's time anti-trust authorities around the world took a look at what is going on here.]
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    https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20170928/02375038300/elsevier-launching-rival-to-wikipedia-extracting-scientific-definitions-automatically-authors-texts.shtml#comments

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      Elsevier Launching Rival To Wikipedia By Extracting Scientific Definitions Automatically From Authors' Texts
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      Elsevier is at it again. It has launched a new (free) service that is likely to undermine open access alternatives by providing Wikipedia-like definitions generated automatically from texts it publishes. As an article on the Times Higher Education...
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