> https://blogs.ch.cam.ac.uk/pmr/2014/03/26/elseviergate-elsevier-is-still-charging-for-open-access-even-after-i-have-told-them-wellcome-should-take-them-to-court/ > Elseviergate; > Elsevier is STILL charging for Open Access even after I > have told them. Wellcome should take them to court
> Someone needs to take formal action against Elsevier. Like taking them > to court. In this case Wellcome. This is yet another reason to prefer the Green route to Open Access. Hybrid Open Access depends on the publisher actually making the paper freely available, while their infrasutrcture is set up, and the incentives are in place, for them to default technically to closed access if they have any doubt or difficulty about the status ofthat article. Even Gold OA can have its problems. I published a paper in the then-new then-OA journal Policy and Internet in 2010. Last year I happened to follow the link on my own website to find that the link was broken, the journal had moved to Wiley and had become toll access. Until that point, I had not been properly depositing my OA journal papers in a repository,butinstead was trusting that OA papers would stay OA. Foolish me. It appears that even when one has paid for an article to be made openly accessible, it does not always appear so, permanently. So, wemust take responsibility ourselves for ensuring access to our articles, which means repositories, and agreements between repositories to provide distributed cross-archiving of content. -- Professor Andrew A Adams [email protected] Professor at Graduate School of Business Administration, and Deputy Director of the Centre for Business Information Ethics Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan http://www.a-cubed.info/ _______________________________________________ GOAL mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal
