[Open-access] How to Block Readcube and Why

[Jan Velterop]

One may, of course, sell open access articles that are covered by CC-BY. (Not the CC-BY-NC ones, obviously). 

However, if you do in the manner Elsevier seems to have done, I wonder if you’d fall foul of the stipulation "You may not apply legal terms or technological measures <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/#> that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.” (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/>) – Particularly the technological measures. I wonder if charging online before you can see the article is an unwarranted technological restriction. 

Charles? Your views on this?

Jan Velterop

> On 20 Mar 2015, at 12:42, Bjoern Brembs <b.brembs at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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