John Dudley Miller, US reverses journal embargo, The Scientist, April 7, 2004. Quoting the Treasury Department: "OFAC does not regulate the important peer review process, [or] the process of style and copy editing, with respect to scholarly papers submitted by authors in a Sanctioned Country." Quoting Mark Seeley, counsel for Elsevier and chair of a group of publishers considering suing the Treasury Department: "It does not resolve the fundamental issues about US government intervention in scholarly publishing." (PS: For once, I agree with Elsevier. By issuing a general license to exempt scientific publishing from trade embargoes, the government retains the power to withdraw the license and presupposes that government-licensed science is compatible with the First Amendment. See my argument against this position, from SOAN for 22/2/03.)
Posted by
Peter Suber at 4/07/2004 03:28:00 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.
