<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>One possible explanation for low take up - I tried to log into to the web page for signing and was told it was unobtainable!</span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>Charles</span></div><div> </div><div>Professor Charles Oppenheim<br></div> <div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; "> <div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; "> <div dir="ltr"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Les A Carr <lac@ecs.soton.ac.uk><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci) <goal@eprints.org> <br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cc:</span></b> LibLicense-L Discussion Forum
<LIBLICENSE-L@listserv.crl.edu> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Friday, 3 February 2012, 9:37<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [GOAL] Re: Pogo: Why Are Researchers Yet Again Boycotting Instead of Keystroking?<br> </font> </div> <br>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.<br><br>>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).<br><br>(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.)<br>--<br>Les Carr<br>_______________________________________________<br>GOAL mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:GOAL@eprints.org" href="mailto:GOAL@eprints.org">GOAL@eprints.org</a><br><a href="http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal" target="_blank">http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal</a><br><br><br> </div> </div> </div></body></html>