Friendly reminder: Mendeley has also been purchased by Elsevier and has locked its data to prevent Zotero, the academic, nonprofit citation manager, from being able to import its data. Don’t use predatory for-profits. Avoid Mendeley.
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Elsevier rhymes with sci-hub.
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Zeynep, I deeply respect your writings on the implications of technology, but, as we discussed in the context of the Mendeley acquisition, there are no actual cases of this happening since Mendeley, which is as far back as I go.
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Did you ever get to the bottom of why Mendeley started encrypting users' local databases in the end? You promised to find out what the story was and get back to us, but never did.
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Doesn't need to be bought to be weaponized. A creative commons paper was copied to Elsevier servers and then used when repeatedly spamming
#TimHunt. https://twitter.com/search?f=tweets&q=%23timhunt%20brouhaha%20until%3A2015-08-29&src=typd … -
Motivation appears to have been keeping the topic active in the run-up to a conference. https://twitter.com/i/moments/856391715313274880 …
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