[Irtalk] Fwd: [GOAL] When Gold OA isn't free to non-subscribers!!

[Hilton Gibson]

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From: "Dana Roth" <dzrlib at library.caltech.edu>
Date: 27 Mar 2014 07:52
Subject: [GOAL] When Gold OA isn't free to non-subscribers!!
To: "Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci)" <goal at eprints.org>
Cc: "Robert C Michaelson" <rmichael at northwestern.edu>

Forwarded from:
https://blogs.ch.cam.ac.uk/pmr/2014/03/26/elseviergate-elsevier-is-still-charging-for-open-access-even-after-i-have-told-them-wellcome-should-take-them-to-court/
Elseviergate;
Elsevier is STILL charging for Open Access even after I have told them.
Wellcome should take them to court

Someone needs to take formal action against Elsevier. Like taking them to
court. In this case Wellcome.


Two days ago I posted
https://blogs.ch.cam.ac.uk/pmr/2014/03/24/today-at-elseviergate-more-potholes-and-bumps-on-the-shared-journey-please-help-us-find-paywalled-openaccess-elsevier/where
 I mentioned an APC-paid Open Access article behind a paywall. In
response to this Elsevier lifted the paywall.

Prompted by a tweed from Ross Mounce I looked again. Now they have put the
article back behind the paywall. Requiring non-subscribers to pay for Open
Access.  Unethical, Immoral and I suspect a clear breach of contract law.


UPDATE: I’ve checked the earlier paywalled Open Access articles and they
are not accessible to anyone (“we are experiencing technical difficulties”);


Dana L. Roth
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