Southampton people and OA resources temporarily offline
An explosion and fire at the University of Southampton have shut down email and web services. If you have sent email to Stevan Harnad, Tim Brody, Les Carr, Steve Hitchcock, other OA activists at Southampton, or the American Scientist OA Forum, don’t expect an immediate reply. For the same reason, the Eprints web site is temporarily offline, along with related pages like the Self-Archiving FAQ, the Self-Archiving Policy Registry, and the Hitchcock bibliography on the OA advantage for citation impact. The BOAI Forum, which I moderate, is also hosted at Southampton and temporarily offline.
Stevan Harnad writes (from a friend’s account), “I hope files are not lost, but the worst case scenario could be the loss of the Hypermail version of the AmSci Archive (plus 20 years worth of back email files of my own). No lives were lost, but one of the world’s most important optoelectronics labs has been.”
Good luck to all our friends at Southampton in recovering from this disaster.
source: Southampton people and OA resources temporarily offline
