Today at Elseviergate: Are Elsevier are dishonouring their contract with Wellcome Trust? “Open Access” behind paywall « petermr's blog

"The Wellcome Trust is one of the most valuable organisations in Open Access. It’s blazed a trail of clarity through the Open Access jungle. Very simply: WT require their grantees to publish Gold CC-BY Open Access They provide money to make sure it happens. They have a clear transparent record of they spend. It’s a model that all funders should emulate. So, yesterday, Robert Kiley announced a spreadsheet of Open Access spending. A heroic effort. Every paper is listed with the publisher, the title and the details. Here’s an excellent review: http://epriego.wordpress.com/2014/03/20/wellcome-trust-apcs-towards-an-open-access-serials-crisis/ . Cameron Neylon has tidied up the spreadsheet Neylon, Cameron (2014): Wellcome Trust Article Processing Charges by Article 2012/13. figshare. http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.964812 and some of the OKFN have also contributed volunteer labour. What follows is not contrived. I really did pick the first article in the spread sheet. So I go to the first record (PMC ID, Publisher, Journal, Title, APC paid by Wellcome) “PMC3378987,  Elsevier,  Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, 'Parent support and parent mediated behaviours are associated with children’s sugary beverage consumption', £2,379.54 ... How strange … I thought this was a list of Open Access papers. That you didn’t have to pay for.  Since I haven’t got the contract between WT and Elsevier I shan’t cast any aspersions. Maybe Wellcome got the details wrong? Maybe they are happy for Elsevier to charge for Open Access?  Or, just possibly, Elsevier have got some explaining to do ..."