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Category: Wrongly selling OA articles

  • 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…

  • ESA moves to Wiley and predictably there are problems already

    TL;DR summary: ESA data papers should be free to read but Wiley (ESA’s new publishing ‘partner’) just charged me $45.60 yesterday to access one of them. They have done this kind of ‘accidental’ profit-generation before, as have other big publishers. John Wiley & Sons (whom I will refer to as ‘Wiley’ from now on) is not…

  • I’m saying NO to Wiley

    [Update 2015-09-19: since writing this, I notice my open access article has now been unpaywalled at Wiley’s site. No-one from Wiley has reached out to me to explain how, why, or when this happened. No compensation has been offered, nor any apology. I note that all the other articles in the special section, which should also…

  • Springer admits wrongdoing in selling open access article

    Roughly ten days after I first blogged about this (see: Springer caught red-handed selling access to an Open Access article), Springer have now made a curious public statement acknowledging this debacle: Statement on Annals of Forest Science article Berlin, 6 May 2015 A number of tweets posted by Prof. Luis Apiolaza on 27 April, and by…