[open-science] Elsevier are telling "mis-truths" about the extent of paywalled open access

Thu Feb 23 14:52:21 UTC 2017

Keep up fighting: The exploitation of sciences by the publishing monopoly cannot be tolerated.
http://www.relx.com/mediacentre/pressreleases/2015/Pages/reed-elsevier-2014-results.aspx
Adjusted operating profit 2015: 1,739£ M or 30.1% that is up from 29% in 2014 – all at the costs of us taxpayers, that is from each tax dollar 30.1% is straight into the Elsevier pocket. Would be better spent in our education and research infrastructure.

Cheers
Donat

From: open-science [mailto:open-science-bounces at lists.okfn.org] On Behalf Of Ross Mounce
Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2017 3:14 PM
To: Christoph Broschinski <broschinski at uni-bielefeld.de>
Cc: open-science <open-science at lists.okfn.org>
Subject: Re: [open-science] Elsevier are telling "mis-truths" about the extent of paywalled open access

FYI

I have checked with Dr Arthur Smith from the open access team at Cambridge.

For the University of Cambridge article:

Edmonds, M. 2015. Partitioning of light lithophile elements during basalt eruptions on earth and application to martian shergottites. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 411:142-150. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2014.11.034<https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdoi.org%2F10.1016%2Fj.epsl.2014.11.034&data=01%7C01%7Cagosti%40amnh.org%7Cabca3593ff9b42b0c78608d45bf750a2%7Cbe0003e8c6b9496883aeb34586974b76%7C0&sdata=B5etYRnnBuk2bKKqOEBJdwJguh21b4cazzGzRRUVTCw%3D&reserved=0>

The payment to Elsevier of £1,664.45 (€2294.44) was for page & colour figure charges

"In this case, no open access article processing charge was paid. The invoice paid was for page and colour fees, but this was incorrectly recorded as an APC in the spreadsheet."

The other 5 articles still remain potential cases of paywalled hybrid open access.

Best,

Ross

On 23 February 2017 at 13:29, Ross Mounce <ross.mounce at gmail.com<mailto:ross.mounce at gmail.com>> wrote:
Brilliant Christoph! I mentioned your openapc-de github data only 2 days ago on this list, I just haven't had the time to go through it yet:
https://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/open-science/2017-February/004467.html<https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flists.okfn.org%2Fpipermail%2Fopen-science%2F2017-February%2F004467.html&data=01%7C01%7Cagosti%40amnh.org%7Cabca3593ff9b42b0c78608d45bf750a2%7Cbe0003e8c6b9496883aeb34586974b76%7C0&sdata=MiYh1Ih7Q9R1xOGE83bR5B6bF1hqdwWWf4Q51nOeQj0%3D&reserved=0>

Does your data include Ulf's openapc-se data (the Swedish APC data)?

If not we should get that done as soon as possible. There are professional journalists investigating this matter right now.

Best,

Ross

On 23 Feb 2017 1:12 pm, "Christoph Broschinski" <broschinski at uni-bielefeld.de<mailto:broschinski at uni-bielefeld.de>> wrote:
Hello everybody,

I don't know if you are familiar with the OpenAPC project (https://github.com/OpenAPC/openapc-de<https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2FOpenAPC%2Fopenapc-de&data=01%7C01%7Cagosti%40amnh.org%7Cabca3593ff9b42b0c78608d45bf750a2%7Cbe0003e8c6b9496883aeb34586974b76%7C0&sdata=kAIEwdCJEvFVqBD7V%2Fj4XWRgHvAC7vkpDC6Tv7lMwss%3D&reserved=0>).
In a nutshell: We collect APC data from participating institutions, process it and disseminate it as
Open Data.
Ross' blog post gave me an interesting idea: Since we have a lot of articles in our database which
were published (and paid for) as OA in hybrid Elsevier journals (more than 2600), maybe we could
search them for more cases of wrongly paywalled articles?

I ended up putting together a small script to automatically search sciencedirect.com<https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsciencedirect.com&data=01%7C01%7Cagosti%40amnh.org%7Cabca3593ff9b42b0c78608d45bf750a2%7Cbe0003e8c6b9496883aeb34586974b76%7C0&sdata=46gWlfRTy8Dh%2F9IIY4cJgRVLF%2B%2FSDkUXVhV%2BPuSduFs%3D&reserved=0> for additional
cases - and we got some results. Details here:

https://openapc.github.io/general/openapc/2017/02/23/elsevier_hybrid_access<https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fopenapc.github.io%2Fgeneral%2Fopenapc%2F2017%2F02%2F23%2Felsevier_hybrid_access&data=01%7C01%7Cagosti%40amnh.org%7Cabca3593ff9b42b0c78608d45bf750a2%7Cbe0003e8c6b9496883aeb34586974b76%7C0&sdata=J2Mi%2Fep96VsjfUib9Ib1Bv0MF%2BPFhbVyoe10oFLezas%3D&reserved=0>

Best,
Christoph Broschinski

On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 9:11 PM, Ross Mounce <ross.mounce at gmail.com<https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fgmail.com&data=01%7C01%7Cagosti%40amnh.org%7Cabca3593ff9b42b0c78608d45bf750a2%7Cbe0003e8c6b9496883aeb34586974b76%7C0&sdata=bYad9U3UgIk3q02W3AF402YUvZKZT%2BWDicCnzSxrmUw%3D&reserved=0>> wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> Remember last week I found an article that had been paid-for by the
> Wellcome Trust to be hybrid open access, except it was for sale behind an
> Elsevier paywall at the journal *Mitochondrion* for $35.95 + tax? [0]
>
> Well, Elsevier have responded, first by sowing doubt on the claim, then 3
> days later admitting I was correct. But stranger still, they said:
>
> “We’ve gone through the system, this [the Mitochondrion article] is the
> only article affected.”
>
> Which would be great if this were true but it isn't. There are more
> paywalled "open access" articles that are currently on sale at
> ScienceDirect right now, including one at The Lancet, which Wellcome Trust
> paid Elsevier £5,280 to make open access [1]. Which makes me think:
>
> A) Elsevier’s entire system for handling hybrid open access is broken
> B) Elsevier are evidently incapable of accurate self-assessment
>
> In 2014 they eventually refunded "about $70,000" to readers who had
> mistakenly been charged to access articles that should have been open
> access. I wonder how much they will pay out this time...?
>
> Please do share this with colleagues. I am outraged.
>
>
>
> Links:
> [0] http://rossmounce.co.uk/2017/02/14/elsevier-selling-access-<https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Frossmounce.co.uk%2F2017%2F02%2F14%2Felsevier-selling-access-&data=01%7C01%7Cagosti%40amnh.org%7Cabca3593ff9b42b0c78608d45bf750a2%7Cbe0003e8c6b9496883aeb34586974b76%7C0&sdata=QxrPFd8YFfGoYNcO3A7Ff74MmmhJZGlgupkr44rG7Gg%3D&reserved=0>
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