[Open-access] Wiley have been caught incorrectly paywalling & selling thousands of articles

Thu Mar 26 17:23:20 UTC 2015

I must congratulate Ross on his incredible effort and patience in bringing
to light completely unacceptable practices in scholarly publishing. At best
the crime is "we don't give a **** about readers and libraries". It's more
than incompetence - it's don't-care incompetence at best. and if it's worse
than that ...

There is no regulator for scholpub (IMO there should be) and academic
libraries don't care - it's other people's money, not theirs. That's also
unacceptable.

I don't have a solution, because in UK I think the trading standards office
has been discontinued otherwise we should take these cases there. It's
close to, but not identical to Copyfraud, where people have sued breachers
(though it's a great effort).

On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 4:48 PM, Ross Mounce <ross.mounce at gmail.com> wrote:

> I didn't think we'd find more examples of 'false paywalling' so easily or
> so quickly but here it is:
>
>
> http://rossmounce.co.uk/2015/03/26/wiley-are-charging-for-access-to-thousands-of-articles-that-should-be-free/
>
> Wiley recently (legitimately) took control of a society journal called
> Limnology and Oceanography from the Association for the Sciences of
> Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO). The association makes clear in its
> guidelines for the journal that all articles are placed into Free Access
> after three years:
> http://aslo.org/lo/toc/
>
> Yet for at least 2 months and 25 days, Wiley was selling access to
> articles from Limnology and Oceanography for $45.60 USD (inc. tax). I know
> this because I bought access to an article myself. Volumes 1 (1956) to 41
> (1996), consisting of thousands of articles were on sale at Wiley.
>
> I do not know how many people have bought access to one of these affected
> articles in this period. Clearly a full investigation is needed. Can we
> trust Wiley to self-report how many readers were mistakenly sold access to
> these articles?
>
> I put this in the past tense because they have just 'un-paywalled' these
> articles in the last 30 minutes or so. I still have my receipt from my
> article purchase though, so there is clear evidence that this happened.
>
> Best,
>
> Ross
>
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Peter Murray-Rust
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