Peter Givler, The Defendant is Charged with Good Editing, Chronicle of Higher Education, May 21, 2004 (accessible only to subscribers). Excerpt: "A warning: Publishing may still be hazardous to your health. A lot of angry ink has been spilled over the U.S. Treasury Department's bizarre ruling last fall that a publisher who corrected the spelling in a manuscript from Iran could be guilty of trading with the enemy and subject to serious criminal penalties -- up to $500,000 in fines and 10 years in prison. Publishers and writers were outraged....Now the department appears to have backed off. In a further ruling, announced last month, it said, based on submissions from one scholarly publisherthe Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineersthat the institute may copy-edit manuscripts from Iran after all. Officials have said the ruling should apply to other publishers who follow the same editing procedures. A victory for publishing and the free flow of ideas? It would be pretty to think so, but I'm afraid not. Because of the legal complexities involved, too few observers -- including most of the news media -- have really understood what continues to be at stake."
Posted by
Peter Suber at 5/17/2004 08:38:00 AM.
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.
