<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Elsevier have a documented track record of selling access to articles that should be open access.</span><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">It is with sadness that I report here that they appear to be doing this again in 2017:</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><a href="http://rossmounce.co.uk/2017/02/14/elsevier-selling-access-to-open-access-again/" target="_blank">http://rossmounce.co.uk/2017/<wbr>02/14/elsevier-selling-access-<wbr>to-open-access-again/</a> <div><br></div><div><br></div><div>As a reminder, they were caught doing this in:</div><div><br></div><div>2014: </div><div><a href="https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/elsevier-bumps-on-road-to-open-access/2012238.article" target="_blank">https://www.<wbr>timeshighereducation.com/news/<wbr>elsevier-bumps-on-road-to-<wbr>open-access/2012238.article</a></div><div><br></div><div>and</div><div><br></div><div>2015: </div><div><a href="http://rossmounce.co.uk/2015/03/06/elsevier-illegally-sold-me-a-creative-commons-non-commercial-licensed-article/" target="_blank">http://rossmounce.co.uk/2015/<wbr>03/06/elsevier-illegally-sold-<wbr>me-a-creative-commons-non-<wbr>commercial-licensed-article/</a></div><div><br></div><div>and</div><div><br></div><div>2016: </div><div><a href="https://twitter.com/RaoOfPhysics/status/740811591084576768" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/<wbr>RaoOfPhysics/status/<wbr>740811591084576768</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>Happy Valentine's Day,</div><div><br></div><div>Ross</div></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">-- <br>-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-<span style="font-size:12.8px">/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-</span><span style="font-size:12.8px">/-/-</span><br>Ross Mounce, PhD</div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Software</span><span style="font-size:12.8px"> </span><span style="font-size:12.8px">Sustainability</span><span style="font-size:12.8px"> Institute Fellow 2016</span><br><span></span>Dept. of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge<br><a href="http://rossmounce.co.uk/" target="_blank">www.rossmounce.co.uk</a><br>-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-<span style="font-size:12.8px">/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-</span><span style="font-size:12.8px">/-/-</span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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