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.
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> But can non-American citizens sign the petition too?
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> Boaz
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> Boaz Shaanan, Ph.D.
> Dept. of Life Sciences
> Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
> Beer-Sheva 84105
> Israel
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> From: CCP4 bulletin board [[log in to unmask]] on behalf of Tim Gruene [[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2012 11:35 AM
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> Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] Fwd: HR3699, Research Works Act
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> Dear Raji,
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> 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 ;-)
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> Cheers,
> Tim
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> 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 <[log in to unmask]>
>> Date: Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 12:40 PM
>> Subject: HR3699, Research Works Act
>> To:
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>> 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
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