[Open-access] How to Block Readcube and Why

Bjoern Brembs b.brembs at gmail.com
Fri Mar 20 12:42:24 UTC 2015


On Thursday, March 19, 2015, 11:34:24 PM, you wrote:

> 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.

Now that's what I'd call predatory publishing: Elsevier selling OA articles and Wiley forcing ReadCube on misled, unsuspecting readers. Let's just wait for Springer to something analogous, and we can declare the top three worst predatory publishers :-)

Bjoern



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