(apologies for meta-cross-posting)

Let me forward an Open Access petition sent originally by Dario Taraborrelli, from the Wikimedia Research Committee.

If you wanna know more, here there some comments form our Daniel Mietchen (the document is uberdetailed :-):

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Committee/Areas_of_interest/Open-access_policy/Request_for_Information_on_Public_Access_to_Peer-Reviewed_Scholarly_Publications_Resulting_From_Federally_Funded_Research#Additional_comments

Aubrey

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(apologies for cross-posting)

A petition you should care about: require free access over the Internet to journal articles arising from taxpayer-funded research.

http://access2research.org/
http://wh.gov/6TH

25,000 signatures in 30 days (by June 19) gets an official response from the White House.

Dario
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