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.
>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). (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.) -- Les Carr
