I have become increasingly irritated by the practices of Elsevier (and other commercial publishers). Especially, one of my pet hatred these days is how they publish your article online before you have the time to check the proofs.
Thus, I have resorted to not signing the copyright transfer forms for the articles.This is creating an interesting situation, so I wanted to share my experience so far. It seems that in this case Elsevier becomes confused, as they have essentially placed your article online, but have no copyright transfer agreement. They can't take it down (not too sure why, as I have asked them to, but they refuse), and I have pointed out the fact that they were making money from my articles without having copyright over them (I told them to start transferring royalties to me, but they haven't, obviously).
Today when I checked it seems that everybody can download these articles for free? (correct me if I'm wrong). So, maybe this is an interesting route for those that want to have their journal article published with free access (i.e. have your paper accepted, but never sign the copyright transfer form...)
Article Effect of bed roughness on tsunami bore propagation and overtopping
Article Tsunami risk hazard in Tokyo Bay: The challenge of future se...
They may remove the article from online after some time. And both of your article are not found as open access.
Miguel, another new pratice that is becomming more clear in the recent times is that, with the decreasing on the signatures from Universities or governments, the Editors are more and more forcing the authors to submit papers to the pay-to-publish journals.
For example, I submitted a paper presenting a new software to Journal of Environmental Modelling & Software. The paper have 2 study cases. The first theoretical and second applied to a real case. The last case we added just because in the journla guidelines there is said that the papers must have " Real-world applications of software technologies ".
The answer we received was "please submitt the paper to Journal of Hydrology - Regional Studies".
When I responded the answer asking why, if the paper is focused in a new software, and the case was just an aditional testing to agree with the journal guidelines, they never answered me back.
Leonid Shumlyanskyy I am curious about this. How could I be banned exactly? You mean Elsevier would ban me from submitting to their journals? (is that even possible, and would it be legal/ethical from their side?)
Paramesh Venkatesh interesting, I thought they were not charging for these articles as I could download from home. So,
they are asking payment for them? (this makes the story interesting, as they are charging for something they do not have the copyright for...)
I am not cooperate with Elsevier before.
I hope to cooperate with Elsevier
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