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Thanks to someone on this list, I now have a copy of the Wolfendale report on science in the media. In the past, I could retrieve this document from the DTI's web site. But in a recent redesign they removed links to this and several other reports that are relevant to the PEST community. For example, you can no longer get the simple "how to" guide that some ageing hack put together fir the OST five years or so ago. Maybe the report is well past its read by date. But if so no one has told the folks in the EU who have just put out a report that has a reference, and link, to the document in question. Visit here to find out about the EU's 76-page report 'Communicating Science: A Scientist's Survival Kit': http://absw.blogspot.com/ If there is anyone here with influence over what the DTI does with old documents, they might like to intervene. If nothing else, the OSI, as we must now call it, could grant someone else the right to hold "out of print" documents. Web revisionism is not new, or unique to the DTI. Does anyone remember the name Gil Amelio? He once rang Apple, although you would not know it from their web site. It was this saga that prompted me to buy software that lets me grab local copies of web pages. I wonder of the OST signed up to the British Library's campaign to build an archive of web sites. ____________________________ Michael Kenward ABSW e-minder http://www.absw.org.uk http://absw.blogspot.com/ ********************************************************************** 1. To suspend yourself from the list, whilst on leave, for example, send an email to [log in to unmask] with the following message: set psci-com nomail 2. To resume email from the list, send the following message: set psci-com mail 3. To leave psci-com, send an email to [log in to unmask] with the message: leave psci-com 4. Further information about the psci-com discussion list, including list archive, can be found at the list web site: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/psci-com.html 5. The psci-com gateway to internet resources on science communication and science and society can be found at http://psci-com.org.uk ********************************************************************** ********************************************************************** 1. To suspend yourself from the list, whilst on leave, for example, send an email to [log in to unmask] with the following message: set psci-com nomail 2. To resume email from the list, send the following message: set psci-com mail 3. To leave psci-com, send an email to [log in to unmask] with the message: leave psci-com 4. Further information about the psci-com discussion list, including list archive, can be found at the list web site: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/psci-com.html 5. The psci-com gateway to internet resources on science communication and science and society can be found at http://psci-com.org.uk **********************************************************************