Editing Elsevier (section)

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In 2014, 2015, 2016, and 2017,<ref>{{cite news |author=Ross Mounce |date=20 February 2017 |title=Hybrid open access is unreliable |url=https://rossmounce.co.uk/2017/02/20/hybrid-open-access-is-unreliable/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180620191427/http://rossmounce.co.uk/2017/02/20/hybrid-open-access-is-unreliable/ |archive-date=20 June 2018 |access-date=30 April 2018}}</ref> Elsevier was found to be selling some articles that should have been open access, but had been put behind a paywall.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Jump |first1=Paul |date=27 March 2014 |title=Elsevier: bumps on road to open access |url=https://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/news/elsevier-bumps-on-road-to-open-access/2012238.article |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150310222805/http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/news/elsevier-bumps-on-road-to-open-access/2012238.article |archive-date=10 March 2015 |access-date=9 March 2015 |work=[[Times Higher Education]]}}</ref> A related case occurred in 2015, when Elsevier charged for downloading an open-access article from a journal published by [[John Wiley & Sons]]. However, whether Elsevier was in violation of the license under which the article was made available on their website was not clear.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Vollmer |first1=Timothy |date=13 March 2015 |title=Are commercial publishers wrongly selling access to openly licensed scholarly articles? |url=https://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/45175 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150315032557/http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/45175 |archive-date=15 March 2015 |access-date=14 March 2015 |work=Creative Commons News}}</ref>