Data tracking at Elsevier: Yuliya Fadeeva in an interview – iRights.info

From Google's English:  "[Q] Let's talk about the former publisher's data-collecting frenzy. What was the most important lesson you learned regarding Elsevier?

[A] Elsevier pursues an epistemic asymmetry as a business strategy. This means there is an imbalance between science and Elsevier in favor of the corporation. Elsevier collects information about science, scientists, and processes within the scientific sector—and the data flows only in one direction, from science to Elsevier. This gives the corporation a constant advantage. And it continues to work on integrating the various forms of data flow—through applications from the scientific lifecycle, science management, and data tracking— end-to-end , thereby penetrating further levels of the scientific sector. This goes far beyond publications. Elsevier addresses—and this is no secret—scientific institutions, research funders, governments, the healthcare sector, and applications in higher education."