German universities take on Dutch publishing giant Elsevier

Re:German universities take on Dutch publishing giant Elsevier by TheOtherHobbes on Monday August 14, 2017 @07:45AM (#15007983)

I recently tried to access an Open Access paper.

Apparently it's only open to users with university library access. Otherwise you have to pay for it.

I emailed the author directly and he sent me a PDF.

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Re:German universities take on Dutch publishing giant Elsevier by Vinnl on Monday August 14, 2017 @03:10PM (#15011691)

I don't think that's Open Access under any definition of Open Access.

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Re:German universities take on Dutch publishing giant Elsevier by upvotinglurker on Wednesday August 16, 2017 @12:58PM (#15029069)

Correct. The publisher in this case may have been misrepresenting a paid-access journal as open access, or the journal may have offered open access only to certain articles and presented this policy in a confusing way. I have certainly seen the latter before.

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Re:German universities take on Dutch publishing giant Elsevier by chestervonwinch on Monday August 14, 2017 @01:03PM (#15010309)

I see. So rather than providing open access papers in the sense of the common understanding of the term, they're providing them in a "free drink with purchase of two entrées" sense.

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