Hybrid open access is unreliable — Paywall Watch

lterrat's bookmarks 2017-03-19

Summary:

"The TL;DR summary: In February 2017, when Elsevier were accused of selling one paid-for hybrid open access article, at first they sowed doubt about it, then three days later admitted it to be true. In their admission they state that it is the only wrongly paywalled open access article 'affected' at their websites. They have apparently checked their 'system' and say there are no more wrongly paywalled articles at Elsevier websites. Their statement is however demonstrably incorrect as I show in this post. There are more paywalled open access articles at Elsevier, and by their own admission Elsevier don’t seem to know about them. This is professional incompetence. HybridOA as whole, not just at Elsevier, is not reliable. We should not use hybridOA services if we actually want reliable open access in perpetuity."

 

Link:

http://www.paywallwatch.com/blog/Hybrid-open-access-is-unreliable/

From feeds:

Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » lterrat's bookmarks

Tags:

oa.paywalled oa.journals

Date tagged:

03/19/2017, 20:45

Date published:

03/19/2017, 16:45