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

Thu Mar 26 17:27:22 UTC 2015

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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