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That's what I was thinking, Theresa — I'm concerned that discovery knowledgebases and open access tracking services may be indexing these items as available when that access could be fleeting.</div>
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I frequently see promos from Wiley and other publishers with limited time access to articles around a theme. Here's an example:</div>
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<p class="x_x_MsoNormal">Possible reason- “Free to read” is not the same as “free to read, download, and share”?</p>
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<p class="x_x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; color:black">In the last week, a rash of articles have been sent my way through our problem-reporting pipeline involving Wiley articles linked from third party databases like CINAHL or Primo Unpaywall
links, in which the third party expects full text access but the user hits a paywall. On checking Unpaywall's article fixer tool, each article comes up indexed as "Free to Read." In one case a student stated they were able to article access the article in
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<p class="x_x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; color:black">Have others observed similar, and perhaps have a scoop on what's going on with this Wiley content? It seems like as they were labeled "free to read," not "open access," they may have been
in a time-delimited or otherwise revokable free status.</span></p>
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