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Dear Raji,
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 ;-)
Cheers,
Tim
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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Dr Tim Gruene
Institut fuer anorganische Chemie
Tammannstr. 4
D-37077 Goettingen
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