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

[Wise, Alicia (ELS-OXF)]

Hi Ross, this has taken a little time to bottom out but indeed the article should be OA. In 2013 you may recall we initiated an exercise to add/correct and generally clean up OA license information on articles.  This article was part of that exercise, and a little unusual: we had invoiced the author, and then the institution wanted to receive the invoice but in a different currency, so the original  article invoice was unpaid during the cleaning exercise.

Our normal practice is to publish articles OA, but to move them back behind the firewall if after a grace period the invoice remains unpaid.  So it was picked up as an article with an unpaid APC and moved behind the firewall.  We’ve gone through the system, this is the only article affected. There’s nothing malicious about what happened here, and we’ll be reimbursing the institution’s APC, and your PPV charge.  We will also run a check to see if anyone else paid PPV for this article and if so reimburse them as well.

With best wishes,
Alicia

Dr Alicia Wise
Director of Access and Policy
Elsevier I The Boulevard I Langford Lane I Kidlington I Oxford I OX5 1GB
M: +44 (0) 7823 536 826 I E: a.wise at elsevier.com<mailto:a.wise at elsevier.com>
Twitter: @wisealic


From: Wise, Alicia (ELS-OXF)
Sent: 15 February 2017 18:22
To: Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci) <goal at eprints.org>
Cc: Wise, Alicia (ELS-OXF) <A.Wise at elsevier.com>
Subject: RE: [GOAL] Elsevier selling access to open access articles... again

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.

Thanks,
Alicia

Dr Alicia Wise
Director of Access and Policy
Elsevier I The Boulevard I Langford Lane I Kidlington I Oxford I OX5 1GB
M: +44 (0) 7823 536 826 I E: a.wise at elsevier.com<mailto:a.wise at elsevier.com>
Twitter: @wisealic



From: goal-bounces at eprints.org<mailto: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<mailto: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/


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

2016:
https://twitter.com/RaoOfPhysics/status/740811591084576768


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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