AI and the Enclosure of the Scientific Commons
A technical submission regarding the impact of AI on the scientific commons, focusing on the accessibility and indexing of research papers. The article provides links to various academic tools and repositories for tracking scientific citations and data.
Why it matters
It addresses the critical issue of how AI-driven platforms might gatekeep or transform the open-access nature of scientific research.
Focus to learn more arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite (pending registration) Submission history From: Peter Williams [ view email ] [v1] Mon, 19 Oct 2026 20:22:54 UTC (110 KB) Full-text links: Access Paper: View a PDF of the paper titled AI and The Enclosure of the Scientific Commons, by P. K. G. Williams (Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian) View PDF HTML (experimental) TeX Source view license Current browse context: astro-ph.IM < prev | next > new | recent | 2026-10 Change to browse by: astro-ph cs cs.CY References & Citations SciX Google Scholar Semantic Scholar export BibTeX citation Loading... BibTeX formatted citation loading... Data provided by: Bookmark Bibliographic Tools Bibliographic and Citation Tools Bibliographic Explorer Toggle Bibliographic Explorer ( What is the Explorer? ) Connected Papers Toggle Connected Papers ( What is Connected Papers? ) Litmaps Toggle Litmaps ( What is Litmaps?
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