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

[Andrew A. Adams]

> https://blogs.ch.cam.ac.uk/pmr/2014/03/26/elseviergate-elsevier-is-still-charging-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.

This is yet another reason to prefer the Green route to Open Access. Hybrid 
Open Access depends on the publisher actually making the paper freely 
available, while their infrasutrcture is set up, and the incentives are in 
place, for them to default technically to closed access if they have any 
doubt or difficulty about the status ofthat article. Even Gold OA can have 
its problems. I published a paper in the then-new then-OA journal Policy and 
Internet in 2010. Last year I happened to follow the link on my own website 
to find that the link was broken, the journal had moved to Wiley and had 
become toll access. Until that point, I had not been properly depositing my 
OA journal papers in a repository,butinstead was trusting that OA papers 
would stay OA. Foolish me. It appears that even when one has paid for an 
article to be made openly accessible, it does not always appear so, 
permanently. So, wemust take responsibility ourselves for ensuring access to 
our articles, which means repositories, and agreements between repositories 
to provide distributed cross-archiving of content.


-- 
Professor Andrew A Adams                      aaa at meiji.ac.jp
Professor at Graduate School of Business Administration,  and
Deputy Director of the Centre for Business Information Ethics
Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan       http://www.a-cubed.info/