-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Dear Raji,
maybe you could increase the number of supporters if you included a link to (a description of) the content of HR3699 - I will certainly not sign something only summarised by a few polemic sentences ;-) Cheers, Tim On 02/15/2012 11:53 PM, Raji Edayathumangalam wrote: > If you agree, please signing the petition below. You need to register on > the link below before you can sign this petition. Registration and signing > the petition took about a minute or two. > > Cheers, > Raji > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Seth Darst <da...@mail.rockefeller.edu> > Date: Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 12:40 PM > Subject: HR3699, Research Works Act > To: > > > Rep. Caroline Maloney has not backed off in her attempt to put forward the > interests of Elsevier and other academic publishers. > > If you oppose this measure, please sign this petition on the official 'we > the people' White House web site. It needs 23,000 signatures before > February 22nd and only 1100 so far. Please forward far and wide. > > > Oppose HR3699, the Research Works Act > > HR 3699, the Research Works Act will be detrimental to the free flow of > scientific information that was created using Federal funds. It is an > attempt to put federally funded scientific information behind pay-walls, > and confer the ownership of the information to a private entity. This is an > affront to open government and open access to information created using > public funds. > > This link gets you to the petition: > https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions#!/petition/oppose-hr3699-research-works-act/vKMhCX9k > > > > > - -- - -- Dr Tim Gruene Institut fuer anorganische Chemie Tammannstr. 4 D-37077 Goettingen GPG Key ID = A46BEE1A -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iD8DBQFPPM3kUxlJ7aRr7hoRAsKYAKDIs/jZHPBIV4AB2qrpBdXrSOn+VwCePabR Nm6+LK17jLJnPTqkjsQ4fV8= =a27t -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
