<div dir="ltr">Thanks for looking into this Alicia.<div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>[1] <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3919210/">https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3919210/</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div><br></div><div>Ross</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 15 February 2017 at 09:21, Wise, Alicia (ELS-OXF) <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:A.Wise@elsevier.com" target="_blank">A.Wise@elsevier.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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We’ll have a little look to make sure all the metadata is correct.<u></u><u></u></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"> <a href="mailto:goal-bounces@eprints.org" target="_blank">goal-bounces@eprints.org</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:goal-bounces@eprints.org" target="_blank">goal-bounces@eprints.<wbr>org</a>]
<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) <<a href="mailto:goal@eprints.org" target="_blank">goal@eprints.org</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [GOAL] Elsevier selling access to open access articles... again<u></u><u></u></span></p><div><div class="h5">
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