Scientific Censorship, Chemical and Engineering News 82(9), 4-5 (March 1, 2004). (Access restricted to subscribers.) Two letters in the latest Chemical and Engineering News express incredulity and disapproval of the U.S. Treasury Department OFAC rulings. C.A. Carroll remarks: "Contact with the scientific and intellectual members of those hostile countries can only demonstrate the advantages of free and open exchanges." And Cecil A. Fox points to scientific advances in countries such as Cuba, "in cancer therapeutics, in pediatric vaccines, and in humanized monoclonals" that American researchers cannot access. Fox classifies the OFAC decision as "blind ignorance" and muses: "By comparison, the Luddites were enlightened activists."
Posted by
Garrett at 3/02/2004 01:07:00 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.
