The process of turning shared science into private resources with limits and paywalls.
Science should be a public library. Then someone puts a padlock on the door and rents out the keys.
Papers, data, and tools become harder to get. This slows teamwork and fact-checking, especially for small labs.
Copyright
Copyright can limit copying and sharing of scientific knowledge.
Closed AI Research
Closed AI Research is one form of scientific commons enclosure.
AI Data Lockdown
AI Data Lockdown makes research harder to reuse and check.