[GOAL] Re: Pogo: Why Are Researchers Yet Again Boycotting Instead of Keystroking?

[Les A Carr]

So far only 3300 people have signed the petition (385 per day in the last week), so it doesn't seem to be taking off in a significant way.

>From the UK's perspective, there have been 159 signatories all told from 27 institutions. Having checked the 28 signatories from the most represented institution I can reveal (to almost no-one's surprise) that they are not only "not reviewing", "not publishing" and "not doing editorial work", they are also "not using their IR" (only 5 have ever put anything in their repository).

(Disclaimer: I haven't checked websites, Mendeley, arxiv or other sources of OA, and neither have I checked whether all the signatories are PhD students / undergraduates or others.)
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Les Carr