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Month: February 2017

  • Seeking Justice for Readers

    I am highly curious as to why Elsevier do not seem to be responding to emails at the moment: Four days ago, continuing an existing thread on the public GOAL mailing list, I wrote to Dr Alicia Wise (Director of Access and Policy at Elsevier), about how Elsevier’s paywall systems are wrongly defrauding readers across the world by…

  • Remarkable ongoing chaos at OUP

    Just a quick post tonight. Yet another paywalled open access article. It’s becoming a daily occurrence! The total chaos that has been ongoing at Oxford University Press journals over the pass month is still ongoing would you believe it? Readers are being incorrectly blocked from one of our #OA papers https://t.co/Y3NT5K7LCG. So we've put it…

  • Hybrid open access is unreliable

    The TL;DR summary: In February 2017, when Elsevier were accused of selling one paid-for hybrid open access article, at first they sowed doubt about it, then three days later admitted it to be true. In their admission they state that it is the only wrongly paywalled open access article “affected” at their websites. They have apparently checked their…

  • Elsevier selling access to open access again

    TL;DR Elsevier are selling access to open access articles again I saw this humorous tweet today: Not all #OA is openUnbelievable, I knowWhen you publish with ElsevierSometimes open is faux#ElsevierValentines for @rmounce https://t.co/lnPzkfJI3p — Nick Shockey (@nshockey) February 14, 2017 This tweet references the fact that Elsevier have been caught selling access to paid-for “open access”…

  • Checking Wellcome Trust funded Open Access articles

    Yesterday I published a blog post calling for ongoing monitoring of ‘hybrid’ open access articles and academic publisher services in general. Today I want to share with you some highlights from my brief checks on 2 years worth of Wellcome Trust ‘open access’ article processing charge (APC) supported published research outputs. Source data Robert Kiley…

  • Monitoring publishing services

    In a recent series of posts I’ve become fascinated with how unnecessarily fragile the scholarly communications system seems to be in 2017: Oxford University Press have failed to preserve access to the scholarly record (23-01-2017) Documenting the many failures across OUP journals (24-01-2017) Comparing OUP to other publishers (25-01-2107) As a reminder, academics literally invented the internet,…