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Book Talk: Data Cartels

by: Internet Archive

Publication date: 2022-11-30
Topics: webinar, zoom, book talk, author
Language: English
Item Size: 2.0G

Join SPARC’s Heather Joseph for a chat with author Sarah Lamdan about the companies that control & monopolize our information.

In our digital world, data is power. Information hoarding businesses reign supreme, using intimidation, aggression, and force to maintain influence and control. Sarah Lamdan brings us into the unregulated underworld of these “data cartels”, demonstrating how the entities mining, commodifying, and selling our data and informational resources perpetuate social inequalities and threaten the democratic sharing of knowledge.

Resources shared during the discussion:

Session chat
Purchase your copy of Data Cartels from The Booksmith https://www.booksmith.com/book/9781503633711 or Stanford University Press https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=33205
Authors Alliance: https://www.authorsalliance.org/
Up-to-date (Wolters Kluwer): https://www.abim.org/media-center/press-releases/abim-open-book-assessments-will-feature-access-to-uptodate.aspx
Good review of how Elsevier/RELX has come to dominate the academic publishing landscape through both horitzontal and vertical integration: https://knowledgegap.org/index.php/sub-projects/rent-seeking-and-financialization-of-the-academic-publishing-industry/preliminary-findings/
See also (on background to how big publishing became big publishing): https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/jun/27/profitable-business-scientific-publishing-bad-for-science
LexisNexis’s Role in ICE Surveillance and Librarian Ethics: https://ripslawlibrarian.wordpress.com/2017/12/05/lexisnexiss-role-in-ice-surveillance-librarian-ethics/
Analysis from SPARC: Clarivate-ProQuest merger (https://sparcopen.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/SPARC-FTC-Letter-in-Opposition-to-the-Clarivate-ProQuest-Merger.pdf); Elsevier acquisition of Interfolio (https://infrastructure.sparcopen.org/interfolio-acquisition)

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