[Open-access] How to Block Readcube and Why

Fri Mar 20 09:55:43 UTC 2015

could somebody send me some examples of this please, especially if the
papers are definitely open access?  I'd like to dig deeper...

thanks

On 20 March 2015 at 09:52, Peter Murray-Rust
<peter.murray.rust at googlemail.com> wrote:
> This is appalling.
>
> You/we should send an account to RLUK and LIBER and SPARC at least.
>
> On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 9:45 AM, Ross Mounce <ross.mounce at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> This has nothing to do with hybrid open access-ness per se - although,
>> importing hybrid open access CC BY rights-unencumbered articles into a DRM
>> system is pretty sinister re-enclosure IMO.
>>
>> All articles via the "get PDF" link -> Readcube whether they are closed
>> access, fauxpen access or hybrid open access.
>>
>
> Does this mean that subscribers now cannot print or save the paper by
> default?
>
>>
>> I fear some readers will now be tricked into using Readcube, not realising
>> the rights they are giving-up, and that their reading habits & annotations
>> may now be tracked.
>
>
> Yes. Snoop and Control.
>>
>>
>> Wiley have basically rolled-out Readcube as the default for 'PDF' across
>> 1100 of their journals (all?). Readers did not ask them to do this and I
>> suspect were not properly consulted.
>
>
> Nor librarians who sign the contract. But they probably signed a contract
> which says "the publishers can make any changes they like at any time"
>>
>>
>> They use JavaScript to re-write all "Get PDF" links displayed on article
>> landing pages to direct to Readcube rather than actual PDF. If you have the
>> rights to, you can download PDF, but only from within the Readcube system.
>> One is effectively forced to go through Readcube to access PDF.
>>
>> But if you turn off JavaScript the "get PDF" links revert back to going
>> directly to real PDF.
>
>
> But now you have found this loophole they'l close iy
>>
>>
>>
>> Non-consenting coercion of Readcube-use is just plain wrong. Not to
>> mention false advertising - "get PDF" -> Readcube is not anyone's definition
>> of "get PDF".
>
>
> Agreed.
>
> It's time to make a stand.
>
>>
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Ross
>>
>>
>> On 20 March 2015 at 09:33, Peter Murray-Rust
>> <peter.murray.rust at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Does this apply to all papers or only to hybrid Open Access? In either
>>> case I would expect that it is a change in the conditions of the contract -
>>> that the publisher is sending an unacceptable substandard product.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 10:34 PM, Ross Mounce <ross.mounce at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Dear Friends,
>>>>
>>>> You may have noticed recently that at some, all(?) Wiley journals, the
>>>> "get PDF" links have been forcibly, non-consentingly redirecting readers to
>>>> the Readcube version of the article, NOT the PDF file.
>>>>
>>>> I have written a practical guide on 'How to Block Readcube and Why' to
>>>> explain how to get the direct, one-click link to the real PDF back again (by
>>>> disabling JavaScript on site). Please share this with friends if you know
>>>> they are similarly inconvenienced by this issue:
>>>>
>>>> http://rossmounce.co.uk/2015/03/19/how-to-block-readcube-and-why/
>>>>
>>>> I have also cross-posted to The Winnower, at which you can download a
>>>> copy of this post in PDF format to enable easy offline sharing with others:
>>>> https://thewinnower.com/papers/how-to-block-readcube-and-why
>>>>
>>>> Best,
>>>>
>>>> Ross
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>> Ross Mounce, PhD
>>>> Fossils, Phylogeny and Macroevolution Research Group
>>>> University of Bath, 4 South Building, Lab 1.07
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>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Peter Murray-Rust
>>> Reader in Molecular Informatics
>>> Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry
>>> University of Cambridge
>>> CB2 1EW, UK
>>> +44-1223-763069
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> --
>> -/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-
>> Ross Mounce
>> Fossils, Phylogeny and Macroevolution Research Group
>> University of Bath, 4 South Building, Lab 1.07
>> http://about.me/rossmounce
>> -/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-
>
>
>
>
> --
> Peter Murray-Rust
> Reader in Molecular Informatics
> Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry
> University of Cambridge
> CB2 1EW, UK
> +44-1223-763069

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