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

Thu Mar 26 17:26:03 UTC 2015

Well done Ross, this is absolutely unacceptable.
It would be interesting to know whether Wiley also has sold 
subscriptions to this journal, although it is much harder to find that out.

Antonin

On 26/03/2015 18:23, Peter Murray-Rust wrote:
> 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
> <mailto: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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