It appears the SNSI arguing that universities ought to install publisher spyware on their servers
bjoern.brembs.net/2020/10/is-the…
is just the tip of the iceberg.
bjoern.brembs.net/2020/10/is-the…
is just the tip of the iceberg.
There seems to be a clan of publisher-initiatives and companies that reinforce each other and create a disinformation and surveillance network: PSI, LibLynx etc.
Something is brewing that the #OpenScience community doesn't seem to have on their radar, yet.
Something is brewing that the #OpenScience community doesn't seem to have on their radar, yet.
Again, as so many times before, academics have to organize a defense against the onslaught of corporate interests against the public good.
This time, the corporate publishers seem to be using their relations with libraries to target them with fake security concerns. The goal appears to be to convince institutions that it is in their own interest to install publisher spyware on their servers.
From what little we know at this point, this appears to be the biggest publisher con, yet, dwarfing even PRISM or the RWA.
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