Fwd: White House Petition Calling for Open Access

[David Wojick]

I prefer providing public access via research reports, which the government already gets and owns. See my little essay: 
http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2012/01/06/my-argument-for-public-access-to-research-reports/

David

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On May 21, 2012, at 5:27 PM, Stevan Harnad <harnad at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK> wrote:

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>> From: David Prosser <david.prosser -- rluk.ac.uk>
>> Date: May 21, 2012 4:30:26 PM EDT
>> To: "Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci)" <goal at eprints.org>
>> Subject: [GOAL] White House Petition Calling for Open Access
>> Reply-To: "Global Open Access List \(Successor of AmSci\)" <goal at eprints.org>
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>> I'm sure that  many of you will have already seen this - but a petition has been launched by access2research (http://access2research.org/) on the White House website calling for open access to US tax-payer funded research.  It the petition reaches 25,000 signatories in 30 days it will get an official response from the US Administration.
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>> The petition is here:
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>> https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions/!/petition/require-free-access-over-internet-scientific-journal-articles-arising-taxpayer-funded-research/wDX82FLQ 
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>> Anybody can sign - you don't have to be a US citizen.  All you need to be is somebody who believes there should be more open access!  Please sign.
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>> David
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