Melanie Smallman might remember more. I'm pretty sure she's on this list.

I think you're right about timing, though it could just have been a bit earlier.

Mary Rice
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Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2015 20:08:54 +0000
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Subject: Re: [PSCI-COM] Does anyone know more about the history of psci-com? Who started it?

Certainly it was Wellcome Trust - their library took a decision post-Bodmer report that it should develop its PUS (as it then was) collection and this list was def initially administered by the person in the library responsible for the PUS collection. There was a group of Comms/Education/Outreach people from Biol and Related learned socs that met at Wellcome every couple of months to coordinate activities - the initial list may have been assoc with that group - but I'm not so certain about that. I'd guess start up at around 1995-96. 

Dianne

Dianne Stilwell 
Communications Manager, Forest Research

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On 26 Oct 2015, at 19:12, Jo Brodie <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

Hello all

I've been asked about how the list was initially started, and by whom, and how they got the ball rolling in terms of getting people to sign up. As far as I'm aware the Wellcome Trust created and maintained the list until I took it over so I've emailed the person who handed it on to me but they're away until next week so I thought I'd ask on-list as I know some people here will have been involved from the start.

Our public archives go back to October 1998 but it seems clear from the earliest posts available that the list must have been going before that.

The list has always seemed to just get bigger by itself - I hear from people I meet at events that they were told about it on a scicomm course, or that their colleagues recommended it etc.

Thanks,
Jo
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