As Ann Tillotson says I emailed Ken Atherton at the BCS a couple of days
ago and he has passed the information on to BRICMICS.
We first heard about it from the Geological Society, they had emailed
members asking for comment before they responded to the document and one of
our Professors was worried enough to say something.
Clare Gordon
At 15:05 11/12/01 +0000, you wrote:
>We too had heard only this week of this Consultation Document,
>via a member of staff in Earth Sciences. Until then, I had not heard
>about it at all from any source.
>
> We had a visit to the School yesterday by Sally Payne, the OS /
>Universities Liaison Officer who was unaware of the document or of
>any implications this may mean for the cost of University OS
>Copyright Licences. It seems that the list of interested parties
>consulted in the document did not include Higher Education, the
>Library Association,or BCS, according to our University Copyright /
>intellectual Rights Officer. I understand that Clare Gordon of Earth
>Sciences was to email BCS to ask about this. At the moment
>Sally Payne has elected to find out more and to contact our
>person at the University Library about the document / consultation
>exercise.
>
>Ann Tillotson
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