I have recently been comparing publishers on their policies on double dipping (charging an Open Access fee for publishing in a hybrid journal and then charging again a subscription fee). Many publishers (Springer, Wiley, Taylor and Francis) state they lower the subscription fees based on the amount of Open Access articles to not charge their authors / readers / customers twice for the same article. Elsevier does have a different approach. They state: 'Elsevier's policy is not to charge subscribers for open access articles and when calculating subscription prices only to take into account subscription articles – we do not double dip.' (http://ift.tt/1mEdOe6). But how is this implemented? The Elsevier support team was of no help when I asked there. I only got links to the help pages, which I have read forwards and backwards three times already. I even created an account and started a test submission to two of their hybrid journals but there wasn't even a box to tick for selecting 'Open Access'.
Has anyone made use of this policy and asked for a waiver based on a journal subscription?
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