Librarians Are Waging a Quiet War Against International “Data Cartels” – The Markup

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Companies that got their start as academic publishers have spent the last several decades transforming themselves into hugely profitable data analytics firms. Elsevier, for example, owns ScienceDirect, the premier database of peer-reviewed journals. It is a subsidiary of RELX, a global data broker that also owns LexisNexis and collects massive databases of personal information it then sells to government agencies and businesses to use in algorithms for things like policing, insurance, and banking. There are concerns the company could add library data directly to that mix.

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Mathewson, T. G. (2024, May 18). Librarians Are Waging a Quiet War Against International “Data Cartels.” The Markup. https://themarkup.org/hello-world/2024/05/18/librarians-are-waging-a-quiet-war-against-international-data-cartels

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