Michael’s excellent little book “Going Public” can still be found on the DTI website, but it is in a different place. Going to the “reports and publications” bit and searching for “Going Public” will get you to the PDF version.

 

Mark

 

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From: psci-com: on public engagement with science [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Michael Kenward
Sent: 22 June 2006 17:07
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Subject: [PSCI-COM] DTI pulls plug on PEST files

 

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.

 

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Michael Kenward

ABSW e-minder

http://www.absw.org.uk

http://absw.blogspot.com/