Wellcome publish their funded Open Access articles; Elsevier are still charging extra for re-use « petermr's blog

"Robert Kiley has just published a spreadsheet of every single paper they have sponsored as paid (“Gold”) open access. http://figshare.com/articles/Wellcome_Trust_APC_spend_2012_13_data_file/963054 . This is brilliant. Every funder should do this. So off I went to see if the papers were really Open Access. Have the publishers fulfilled their bargain? I chose an Elsevier one – at random – #471 in Robert’s list. It’s CC-BY (hidden at the bottom of the 50-page paper) but still “All rights reserved”. Can I get free and Open re-use. Off to Rightslink to see if I can get PERMISSION for translation (I’ll have to do the translation – this is just a permission tax). Elsevier ID S00109452130020 ..."