I signed, and I think so. Further information can be found here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/feb/02/academics-boycott-publisher-elsevier
On 16 Feb 2012, at 11:41, Boaz Shaanan wrote: > I initially thought that it had to do with a new Hampton Research thing. > > But can non-American citizens sign the petition too? > > Boaz > > > Boaz Shaanan, Ph.D. > Dept. of Life Sciences > Ben-Gurion University of the Negev > Beer-Sheva 84105 > Israel > > E-mail: bshaa...@bgu.ac.il > Phone: 972-8-647-2220 Skype: boaz.shaanan > Fax: 972-8-647-2992 or 972-8-646-1710 > > > > > > ________________________________________ > From: CCP4 bulletin board [CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK] on behalf of Tim Gruene > [t...@shelx.uni-ac.gwdg.de] > Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2012 11:35 AM > To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK > Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] Fwd: HR3699, Research Works Act > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Dear Raji, > > maybe you could increase the number of supporters if you included a link > to (a description of) the content of HR3699 - I will certainly not sign > something only summarised by a few polemic sentences ;-) > > Cheers, > Tim > > On 02/15/2012 11:53 PM, Raji Edayathumangalam wrote: >> If you agree, please signing the petition below. You need to register on >> the link below before you can sign this petition. Registration and signing >> the petition took about a minute or two. >> >> Cheers, >> Raji >> >> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >> From: Seth Darst <da...@mail.rockefeller.edu> >> Date: Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 12:40 PM >> Subject: HR3699, Research Works Act >> To: >> >> >> Rep. Caroline Maloney has not backed off in her attempt to put forward the >> interests of Elsevier and other academic publishers. >> >> If you oppose this measure, please sign this petition on the official 'we >> the people' White House web site. It needs 23,000 signatures before >> February 22nd and only 1100 so far. Please forward far and wide. >> >> >> Oppose HR3699, the Research Works Act >> >> HR 3699, the Research Works Act will be detrimental to the free flow of >> scientific information that was created using Federal funds. It is an >> attempt to put federally funded scientific information behind pay-walls, >> and confer the ownership of the information to a private entity. This is an >> affront to open government and open access to information created using >> public funds. >> >> This link gets you to the petition: >> https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions#!/petition/oppose-hr3699-research-works-act/vKMhCX9k >> >> >> >> >> > > - -- > - -- > Dr Tim Gruene > Institut fuer anorganische Chemie > Tammannstr. 4 > D-37077 Goettingen > > GPG Key ID = A46BEE1A > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ > > iD8DBQFPPM3kUxlJ7aRr7hoRAsKYAKDIs/jZHPBIV4AB2qrpBdXrSOn+VwCePabR > Nm6+LK17jLJnPTqkjsQ4fV8= > =a27t > -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
