[GOAL] Re: When Gold OA isn't free to non-subscribers!!

[Richard Poynder]

There is also an article in the Times Higher:
http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/news/elsevier-bumps-on-road-to-open-ac
cess/2012238.article



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From: goal-bounces at eprints.org [mailto:goal-bounces at eprints.org] On Behalf
Of Dana Roth
Sent: 26 March 2014 19:48
To: Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci)
Cc: Robert C Michaelson
Subject: [GOAL] When Gold OA isn't free to non-subscribers!!

Forwarded from:
https://blogs.ch.cam.ac.uk/pmr/2014/03/26/elseviergate-elsevier-is-still-cha
rging-for-open-access-even-after-i-have-told-them-wellcome-should-take-them-
to-court/
Elseviergate;
Elsevier is STILL charging for Open Access even after I have told them.
Wellcome should take them to court

Someone needs to take formal action against Elsevier. Like taking them to
court. In this case Wellcome.


Two days ago I posted
https://blogs.ch.cam.ac.uk/pmr/2014/03/24/today-at-elseviergate-more-pothole
s-and-bumps-on-the-shared-journey-please-help-us-find-paywalled-openaccess-e
lsevier/ where  I mentioned an APC-paid Open Access article behind a
paywall. In response to this Elsevier lifted the paywall.

Prompted by a tweed from Ross Mounce I looked again. Now they have put the
article back behind the paywall. Requiring non-subscribers to pay for Open
Access.  Unethical, Immoral and I suspect a clear breach of contract law.


UPDATE: I've checked the earlier paywalled Open Access articles and they are
not accessible to anyone ("we are experiencing technical difficulties");


Dana L. Roth
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