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I'm totally chuffed. - Michael Nielsen

Cool thing, and well-deserved! - Daniel Mietchen

Marking to read tomorrow - Hedgehog

Posted to both but shattered now so I will put the data one on the blog tomorrow... - Cameron Neylon

Said Jon Claerbout. - Graham Steel

I originally thought it was Cameron but he suggested on Twitter a week or so ago to check out http://www.stanford.edu/~vcs... . I didn't get a chance to do a detailed search through all the links, though. - Graham Steel

Cameron, nice job. I like how you've pushed back on the framing of the questions. I really like this bit and the arguments that lead up to it: "Once the misleading focus on intellectual property is discarded in favour of a service based analysis it is clear that there is no justification for any length of embargo" - Heather Piwowar

*bump* for the Monday am crowd, US West Coast. - Bill Hooker

"A new bill, The Research Works Act (H.R.3699), designed to roll back the NIH Public Access Policy and block the development of similar policies at other federal agencies has been introduced into the U.S. House of Representatives. Co-sponsored by Darrell Issa (R-CA) and Carolyn Maloney (D-NY), it was introduced on December 16, 2011, and referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. Essentially, the bill seeks to prohibit federal agencies from conditioning their grants to require that articles reporting on publicly funded research be made accessible to the public online. The bill text is short and to the point. The main point reads: "No Federal agency may adopt, implement, maintain, continue, or otherwise engage in any policy, program, or other activity that -- (1) causes, permits, or authorizes network dissemination of any private-sector research work without the prior consent of the publisher of such work; or (2) requires that any actual or prospective author, or the... more... - Daniel Mietchen from Bookmarklet

Thanks, Graham. Now, which representative(s) would it make most sense to write to as a non-voter in US elections? - Daniel Mietchen

It was Michael Kuhn who pointed out to me over the holiday break that both Elsevier and Macmillan (parent company of Nature Publishing Group) were listed as supporters of the Stop Online Piracy Act. If you don't know about SOPA and why it is one of the most politically and legislatively incompetent actions of ... - Cameron Neylon

If you look at the publishers "supporting" SOPA through the Association of American Publishers it gets even more insane, a whole bunch of university presses and smaller societies that could be at real risk from this. http://publishers.org/members... I can't help but feel that a bunch of members telling the AAP to withdraw would be a good thing. - Cameron Neylon

Love it! - Steve Koch

It's such a shame to see such a great service so badly maintained by the people who are "meant" to be in charge of it. - Graham Steel

In short, fuck all :-( - Graham Steel

Tl;dr version of my comment on the OP: yes, unless you can say clearly why/how you think NOT doing so would be useful. - Bill Hooker

Very glad to hear it! - RepoRat

That's good news! - Cameron Neylon

On the 8th December David Willetts, the Minister of State for Universities and Science, and announced new UK government strategies to develop innovation and research to support growth. key aspect for Open Access advocates was the section that discussed a wholesale move by the UK to an author pays system to freely accessible research ... - Cameron Neylon

heh. dangerous to HIM, sure. - RepoRat

I think Dr Mora did pretty well there. The tone veered away from the heated and headed for useful pretty early in the discussion. Score one (more) for blogs-as-(peer)-review, I say. - Bill Hooker