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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> goal-bounces@eprints.org [mailto:goal-bounces@eprints.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Ross Mounce<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 15 February 2017 08:06<br>
<b>To:</b> Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci) <goal@eprints.org><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [GOAL] Elsevier selling access to open access articles... again<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.5pt">It is with sadness that I report here that they appear to be doing this again in 2017:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.5pt"><a href="http://rossmounce.co.uk/2017/02/14/elsevier-selling-access-to-open-access-again/" target="_blank">http://rossmounce.co.uk/2017/02/14/elsevier-selling-access-to-open-access-again/</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.5pt">As a reminder, they were caught doing this in:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.5pt"><a href="https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/elsevier-bumps-on-road-to-open-access/2012238.article" target="_blank">https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/elsevier-bumps-on-road-to-open-access/2012238.article</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.5pt">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.5pt">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
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