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Tag: open access publishing
Are commercial publishers wrongly selling access to openly licensed scholarly articles?
by Timothy Vollmer UncategorizedRoss Mounce, a postdoc at the University of Bath, recently wrote about how Elsevier charged him $31.50 for an “open access” research article licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (BY-NC-ND) license. Mounce was understandably upset, because the article was originally published by another publisher – John Wiley – and was made available freely on their…