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

[CHARLES OPPENHEIM]

One possible explanation for low take up - I tried to log into to the web page for signing and was told it was unobtainable!

Charles
 
Professor Charles Oppenheim


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 From: Les A Carr <lac at ecs.soton.ac.uk>
To: Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci) <goal at eprints.org> 
Cc: LibLicense-L Discussion Forum <LIBLICENSE-L at listserv.crl.edu> 
Sent: Friday, 3 February 2012, 9:37
Subject: [GOAL] Re: Pogo: Why Are Researchers Yet Again Boycotting Instead of Keystroking?
 
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
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