Potter Wickware, US pressures publishers to honor trade embargoes
, Nature Medicine 10, 109 (February 2004). (Access restricted to subscribers.) The American Society for Microbiology (ASM) is another agency that has responded to the trade embargo ruling by the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) of the U.S. Treasury Department and will not accept papers from Sudan, Libya and Iran and Cuba. The article quotes ASM editors who are unhappy with the policy, one of whom remarks on the potentially negative effects upon science as a whole, and another who calls the policy discriminatory. A Nature editorial in the same issue, Trading Scientific Freedom, reviews several objections against the policy and urges that scientists make their legislators aware of the "inconsistencies and ambiguities of the current regulations" and strive towards "the preservation of the freedom of scientific communication."
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Garrett at 2/04/2004 02:36:00 PM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
