Jean Kumagai, Will U.S. Sanctions Have Chilling Effect on Scholarly Publishing?, IEEE Spectrum, October 15, 2003. Contrary to the charges of its critics, the IEEE deplores the Treasury Department ruling that forces it (among other things) to refuse to edit papers submitted to IEEE journals by Iranian citizens. Also see the open letter from the IEEE President, Michael Adler, on the IEEE response to the controversy. Quoting Adler: In its negotiations with the Treasury Department before the ruling came down, "[w]e stated the reasons that the IEEE firmly believes that the peer review and editing of technical journal articles should be permissible under the current regulations. We have asked that they agree with our interpretation outright, or at least issue us a license to permit these activities as an exception." (Thanks to Garrett Eastman.)
Posted by
Peter Suber at 11/04/2003 12:26:00 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.
I recommend the OA tracking project (OATP) as the best way to stay on top of new OA developments. You can read the OATP feed on a blog-like web page or subscribe to it by RSS, email, or Twitter. You can also help build the feed by tagging new developments you encounter.
