Try the learned societies, IOP, RSC,SoB they may be able to help
Susan
On Oct 15, 2014, at 3:14 PM, Simon Hettrick <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> How do you contact "the research community"?
>
> There doesn't appear to be any way of contacting the majority of people who work in universities conducting research (and there's about 250,000 of them according to HESA).
>
> I am trying to get people to sign up to a campaign that will shed some much needed light on the role of software in research. Here's a number: £760 million - the lower bound of the money spent last year by the Research Councils on software-reliant projects. Only a few million was spent on making sure that the software worked properly and could be shared.
>
> In addition to being a thinly veiled attempt at getting people to help me send the message out, this is a genuine question! Do people have a preferred way of contacting a large swathe of the research community?
>
> And if you do want to help...
>
> The campaign is here: http://bit.ly/SoftwareIsFundamental
>
> There's an eminently re-tweetable tweet here: https://twitter.com/SoftwareSaved/status/522325490754154497
>
> Regards,
>
> Simon.
>
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