Isabel Gomez and Rosa Sancho, Support for Free Speech, Chemical and Engineering News 82(10), 5 (March 8, 2004). (Access restricted to subscribers. Two correspondents from the Center for Scientific Information and Documentation, of the Spanish Council for Scientific Research, report that they learned of the U.S. publishing embargo in part through a Cuban scientist's e-mail, telling that his work had been denied under the treasury department's restrictions. The authors go on to name a number of international and non-governmental organizations that, unlike the U.S. government they point out, "explicity recognize" the appropriateness of scientific exchange across national borders, and express wholehearted support for the American Chemical Society's decision to edit papers from scientists workikng in countries subject to the embargo.
Posted by
Garrett at 3/09/2004 05:01:00 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.
