Pay to download Elsevier's "open access" articles
Well, I've spent a lot of time on this blog trying to determine what the terms are for Elsevier's elective open-access articles -- what they term "Sponsored Articles".
We are as far as ever from getting a good, clear, explicit statement like the one Springer provide on their "Open Choice" page ("all Open Choice articles are published under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license".
Elsevier redefines the meaning of "free"...their open access articles in fact cost over £10 each to download.
March 21, 2012 at 4:02 pm
Someone once said about software “There are lies, damn lies, and open systems”. “Open Access” is a term which should be avoided since it is used by different people to mean different things, often to deliberately create a misleading impression.