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Month: March 2015

  • Wiley are charging for access to thousands of articles that should be free

    [Update 5.30PM 2015-03-26: Wiley have now ‘freed’ the wrongly-paywalled articles in response to this. It doesn’t change the fact that these articles were wrongly on sale for 2 months and 26 days. They have also wrongly sold access to these articles.] Wiley are currently (3PM 2015-03-26) charging for access to thousands of articles that should…

  • Page View Spikes on Research Articles

    For those that know me as a biologist it might perhaps surprise you to know that my most cited publication so far is on Open Access and Altmetrics (published in April 2013, 25 cites and counting…) — nothing to do with biology per se! So I took great interest in this new publication: Wang, X., Liu, C.,…

  • How to Block Readcube and Why

    Wiley & Readcube have done something rather sneaky recently, and it’s not escaped the attention of diligent readers of the scientific literature. Dear @wileyonlinelib, If I ask for a PDF, don’t shove @readcube HTML at me, give me the PDF! If I wanted HTML, I’d have asked for it! — Gavin Simpson (@ucfagls) March 2,…

  • Wrongly paywalled articles: a recap of what we now know

    Last Friday, I genuinely thought Elsevier had illegally sold me an article that should have been open access. This post is to update you all on what we’ve found out since: The Scale of the Problem No one really knows how many articles are wrongly paywalled at all of Elsevier’s various different sales websites. So far,…

  • A Eulogy for Hybrid OA

    you weren’t much loved in your short existence you weren’t much use to readers or text-miners because we often couldn’t find where you were – hiding amongst shadows. you were significantly more expensive than your ‘full’ open access cousins In March, 2015 ‘hybrid OA’ died after a short-life of neglect. Elsevier put the final nail in…

  • Another day, another Elsevier website illegally selling articles

    Elsevier seem to have responded to my criticism yesterday and have stopped selling the article “HIV infection en route to endogenization: two cases” from their ScienceDirect website. Take what you will from that change, but I infer that they have realised that they are in the wrong. Actually, they are still selling it from the…