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

Thu Mar 26 22:00:21 UTC 2015

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From: Subbiah Arunachalam <subbiah.arunachalam at gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 3:23 AM
Subject: Re: [Open-access] Wiley have been caught incorrectly paywalling &
selling thousands of articles
To: Peter Murray-Rust <peter.murray.rust at googlemail.com>
Cc: Ross Mounce <ross.mounce at gmail.com>, madhan muthu <mu.madhan at gmail.com>,
Heather Morrison <hgmorris at gmail.com>

Some time ago, if I remember right, it was reported that Elsevier was
indulging in such practice. Now it is Wiley. Should we approach the
Consumer International (or similar organizations) seeking justice and
punishment for the offenders?

Arun

On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 10:53 PM, Peter Murray-Rust <
peter.murray.rust at googlemail.com> 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>
> 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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