(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-ac…
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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