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

[Peter Murray-Rust]

Yes, I know individual librarians care, but the publishers have to be
*publicly challenged*. Taken to court by universities. Or seriously and
effectively boycotted. It can't be left to Ross and Mike Taylor and Tim
Gowers and a few others and me to make a fuss. We get almost no public
support.

On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 5:27 PM, Y.Nobis <yn235 at cam.ac.uk> wrote:

> Hi  Peter,
>
> I would just like to say many academic librarians really *do* care and are
> extremely frustrated by the current situation,
>
> Yvonne
>
>
>  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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>>> University of Bath, 4 South Building, Lab 1.07
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>>
>>
>>
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>
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Peter Murray-Rust
Reader in Molecular Informatics
Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry
University of Cambridge
CB2 1EW, UK
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