[GOAL] Elsevier selling access to open access articles... again

[Ross Mounce]

Thanks for looking into this Alicia.

I note at NCBI PubMed [1] it is clearly displayed as an "Elsevier Sponsored
Document" which from the word 'sponsored' does rather suggest to me that an
APC was paid. But I welcome any official clarification of the matter from
either Wellcome Trust or Elsevier.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3919210/

Best,

Ross

On 15 February 2017 at 09:21, Wise, Alicia (ELS-OXF) <A.Wise at elsevier.com>
wrote:

> Ross – we are looking into this, but an initial glance at the article
> suggests that the author first decided to publish gold OA and then decided
> against it.  We’ll have a little look to make sure all the metadata is
> correct.
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> Thanks,
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> Alicia
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> Dr Alicia Wise
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> Director of Access and Policy
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> *From:* goal-bounces at eprints.org [mailto:goal-bounces at eprints.org] *On
> Behalf Of *Ross Mounce
> *Sent:* 15 February 2017 08:06
> *To:* Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci) <goal at eprints.org>
> *Subject:* [GOAL] Elsevier selling access to open access articles... again
>
>
>
> Elsevier have a documented track record of selling access to articles that
> should be open access.
>
>
>
> It is with sadness that I report here that they appear to be doing this
> again in 2017:
>
> http://rossmounce.co.uk/2017/02/14/elsevier-selling-access-
> to-open-access-again/
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> As a reminder, they were caught doing this in:
>
>
>
> 2014:
>
> https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/elsevier-bumps-on-road-to-
> open-access/2012238.article
>
>
>
> and
>
>
>
> 2015:
>
> http://rossmounce.co.uk/2015/03/06/elsevier-illegally-sold-
> me-a-creative-commons-non-commercial-licensed-article/
>
>
>
> and
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> 2016:
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> https://twitter.com/RaoOfPhysics/status/740811591084576768
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> Can someone please remind me why we allow researchers to publish hybrid
> open access at Elsevier? For such a large company, and the large sums of
> money paid in the form of hybrid APCs it is simply astonishing that
> Elsevier can't seem to get this right.
>
>
>
> If you know of any other sources of information about articles that have
> been paid-for to be open access at Elsevier journals (aside from Wellcome
> Trust data), please let me know. I and others will do our best to check
> that these articles are actually open access, not for sale behind an
> expensive paywall.
>
>
>
> Happy Valentine's Day,
>
>
>
> Ross
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