<div class="gmail_quote"><font face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 3:51 AM, Peter Murray-Rust <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pm286@cam.ac.uk">pm286@cam.ac.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br></font><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im"><font face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 4:46 AM, Stevan Harnad <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:amsciforum@gmail.com" target="_blank">amsciforum@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div><div><font face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 3:19 AM, Richard Poynder <<a href="mailto:ricky@richardpoynder.co.uk" target="_blank">ricky@richardpoynder.co.uk</a>> wrote:<br></font><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
<font face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">To the intense joy of OA advocates, Elsevier announced Monday that it has<br></font><font face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">withdrawn its support for the controversial US Research Works Act.</font></blockquote>
</div></div></blockquote></div><div><font face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">[...]<br>I take no joy in the total silence of organised academia - not a squeak of comment and support from any major university or library leader.<br>
</font></div></div></blockquote><div><font face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">Sorry, I can't let this pass. Far from "total silence", an admirable number of universities, libraries, and organizations representing academia publicly opposed the Research Works Act. See my list, which includes links to their public statements.</font></div>
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</font></div><div><font face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">Here's a breakdown of the academic institutions by category:</font></div><div><font face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><b style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif">Among universities: </b><span style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);line-height:19px">Arizona State University, </span><span style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);line-height:19px">University of Arkansas, </span><span style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);line-height:19px">Auburn University, </span><span style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif">Brown University, </span><span style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);line-height:19px">University of California System, University of Central Florida, University of Cincinnati, </span><span style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);line-height:19px">Clemson University, </span><span style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);line-height:19px">University of Colorado - Boulder, </span><span style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);line-height:19px">Columbia University,</span><span style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);line-height:19px"> </span><span style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);line-height:19px">University of Connecticut, </span><span style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);line-height:19px">Cornell University, Dakota State University, </span><span style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);line-height:19px">Florida State University, Georgia State University, Harvard University, </span><span style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif">University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Indiana University, University of Iowa, </span><span style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);line-height:19px">Johns Hopkins University,</span><span style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);line-height:19px"> </span><span style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);line-height:19px">University of Kansas, University of Kentucky, University of Louisville, University of Maryland,</span><span style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);line-height:19px"> </span><span style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);line-height:19px">University of Massachusetts - Amherst, </span><span style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);line-height:19px">Massachusetts Institute of Technology, </span><span style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif">University of Michigan, Michigan State University, </span><span style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);line-height:19px">Michigan Technological University, </span><span style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif">University of Minnesota, University of Nebraska at Lincoln, </span><span style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);line-height:19px">University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina - Greensboro, </span><span style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);line-height:19px">North Carolina State University, </span><span style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);line-height:19px">Northern Illinois University,</span><span style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);line-height:19px"> </span><span style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif">Ohio State University, </span><span style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);line-height:19px">University of Oregon, </span><span style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);line-height:19px">University of Pennsylvania,</span><span style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);line-height:19px"> </span><span style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif">Pennsylvania State University, </span><span style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);line-height:19px">University of Pittsburgh,</span><span style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);line-height:19px"> </span><span style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);line-height:19px">Portland State University, Purdue University, Rutgers University, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, South Dakota State University, </span><span style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);line-height:19px">Southern Illinois University - Carbondale, Stanford University, State University of New York - Albany, State University of New York - Buffalo, State University of New York - Stony Brook, </span><span style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);line-height:19px">University of South Dakota, University of Utah, </span><span style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);line-height:19px">Vanderbilt University,</span><span style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);line-height:19px"> </span><span style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);line-height:19px">University of Virginia, University of Washington, </span><span style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);line-height:19px">Washington University - St. Louis, Wayne State University,</span><span style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif"> the University of Wisconsin - Madison.</span></div>
<div><font face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><b>Among libraries and library associations: </b>American Association of Law Libraries,<span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);line-height:19px"> </span>American Library Association, Association of Academic Health Sciences Libraries, Association of College and Research Libraries, Association of Research Libraries, Greater Western Library Alliance, Progressive Librarians Guild, Scholarly Publishing & Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC), Society of American Archivists, <span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);line-height:19px">State University of New York Council of Library Directors,</span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);line-height:19px"> </span>and the William A. Wise Law Library at the University of Colorado Law School.</font></div>
<div><font face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><b>Among other organizations representing academia: </b><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);line-height:19px">American Association of State Colleges and Universities, </span>American Association of University Professors, American Medical Student Association, Association of American Universities, <span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);line-height:19px">Association of Independent Research Institutes, </span>Association of Public and Land-grant Universities, and Universities Allied for Essential Medicines.</font></div>
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