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

[Y.Nobis]

I agree (as you know)
Yvonne

>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.
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>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
>>>> http://about.me/rossmounce
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>> Yvonne Nobis
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Yvonne Nobis

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