[GOAL] Re: The UK Gold Rush: A Hand-Out from the British Government

2012-12-07 Thread Frederick Friend
Andrew is right in pointing to the avenue for UK voters to write to their MPs. I shall certainly be doing that myself if the present situation continues. The action tends to have greater effect the closer we come to a General Election! The question to an MP needs to be accompanied by an

[GOAL] Re: The UK Gold Rush: A Hand-Out from the British Government

2012-12-06 Thread Frederick Friend
Stevan summarises the current situation on UK OA policy very well. It is surprising after almost six months of criticism of the Finch Report that there has been so little defence of the Finch/RCUK/BIS position and (to my knowledge) no response to the criticism voiced. Of all the parties

[GOAL] Re: The UK Gold Rush: A Hand-Out from the British Government

2012-12-06 Thread Steve Hitchcock
The Jump THE article was revealing, as was the recent ACSS meeting on Implementing Finch, judging from the reports from the DisorderofThings blog (http://thedisorderofthings.com/2012/12/04/open-access-news-and-reflections-from-the-acss-conference/) and the presentations that are beginning to

[GOAL] Re: The UK Gold Rush: A Hand-Out from the British Government

2012-12-06 Thread Andrew A. Adams
Fred Friend wrote: [snip] I myself have addressed three e-mails to Rt Hon David Willetts MP through a message system on the BIS web-site for those taxpayers who “want to get in touch with a BIS Minister”, receiving no reply to any of the three messages within the 15 working days