Peter Suber's list of references of Fed pressure on publishers [fs]

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

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Subject: Re: [Politech] Feds warn IEEE editors of criminal prosecution  re: Iran 
articles [fs]
Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2004 15:46:31 -0500
From: Peter Suber <peters () earlham edu>
To: Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>

At 08:45 AM 3/2/2004 -0500, you wrote:


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>Subject: Treasury Department Is Warning Publishers of the Perils of
>Criminal Editing of the Enemy
>Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2004 07:49:36 -0500
>From: Chuck Mauthe <cmauthe () transcard com>
>To: 'Politech' <declan () well com>
>
>http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/28/national/28PUBL.html?th=&pagewanted=print&;
>position=
>February 28, 2004
>Treasury Department Is Warning Publishers of the Perils of Criminal Editing
>of the Enemy
>By ADAM LIPTAK
[...]

Declan,
      I track this issue, among others, in my newsletter
<http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/archive.htm> and blog
<http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/fosblog.html> on open access to science
and scholarship.  In the newsletter issue that mailed this morning, I
listed the following articles and news developments from the past month
alone, in rough chronological order.  In each case, the first URL is for
the source and the second for the blog posting about it.

Potter Wickware, US pressures publishers to honor trade embargoes , Nature
Medicine, February 2004.
http://www.nature.com/cgi-taf/DynaPage.taf?file=/nm/journal/v10/n2/full/nm0204-109a.html
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2004_02_01_fosblogarchive.html#a107592341906777460

Also see the editorial, Trading Scientific Freedom, in the same issue of
Nature Medicine.
http://www.nature.com/cgi-taf/DynaPage.taf?file=/nm/journal/v10/n2/full/nm0204-107a.html
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2004_02_01_fosblogarchive.html#a107592341906777460

The AAP Professional and Scholarly Publishers Division (PSP) released a
public letter criticizing the U.S. Treasury Department for applying trade
embargoes to scientific publications.
http://www.pspcentral.org/committees/executive/OFAC_background.doc
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2004_02_08_fosblogarchive.html#a107679236529521931

On February 9, at the invitation of the IEEE, David Mills addressed a
"summit" of scholarly publishers on the intersection of U.S. trade law and
freedom of the press. Mills is the Treasury Department official in charge
of licensing U.S. journals to edit articles by citizens of Cuba, Iran,
Libya, Sudan, and other embargoed nations.
http://www.ieee.org/portal/index.jsp?pageID=corp_level1&path=about&file=summitnewsrelease.xml&xsl=generic.xsl
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2004_02_15_fosblogarchive.html#a107697302061955777

Lila Guterman, Chemical Society Lifts Moratorium on Publishing Papers From
Embargoed Countries, Chronicle of Higher Education, February 19, 2004. On
the decision by the American Chemical Society to edit and publish articles
by authors from embargoed nations.
http://chronicle.com/prm/daily/2004/02/2004021902n.htm
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2004_02_15_fosblogarchive.html#a107719932225387235

Kevin Coughlin, Chemists to accept reports from Iran, Newark Star-Ledger,
February 19, 2004.
http://www.nj.com/news/ledger/index.ssf?/base/news-13/1077174649176050.xml
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2004_02_15_fosblogarchive.html#a107719932225387235

Geoff Brumfiel, Publishers split over response to US trade embargo ruling,
Nature, February 19, 2004.
http://www.nature.com/cgi-taf/Dynapage.taf?file=/nature/journal/v427/n6976/full/427663a_fs.html
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2004_02_15_fosblogarchive.html#a107720424074727278

Mary Curtius, U.S. Embargos [sic] Extended to Editing Articles, Los Angeles
Times, February 21, 2004.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-embargo21feb21,1,2798779.story?coll=la-headlines-nation
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2004_02_15_fosblogarchive.html#a107738475068716609

Sophie Rovner, ACS Ends Limited Publishing Moratorium, Chemical and
Engineering News 82, 8 (February 23, 2004) 6.
http://pubs.acs.org/cen/topstory/8208/8208notw5.html
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2004_02_22_fosblogarchive.html#a107764337183548374

Society lifts publishing ban on nations facing U.S. sanctions, Nature, 427,
770, February 26, 2004.
http://www.nature.com/cgi-taf/DynaPage.taf?file=/nature/journal/v427/n6977/full/427770a_fs.html
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2004_02_22_fosblogarchive.html#a107764337183548374

Adam Liptak, Treasury Department Is Warning Publishers of the Perils of
Criminal Editing of the Enemy, New York Times, February 28, 2004.
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/28/national/28PUBL.html?th=&pagewanted=print&position=
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2004_02_22_fosblogarchive.html#a107797289293841166

--I sketch my own views briefly in the November 2003 issue of my
newsletter,
<http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/11-02-03.htm#embargoes>.

      Best wishes,
      Peter




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Peter Suber
Research Professor of Philosophy, Earlham College
Open Access Project Director, Public Knowledge
Author, SPARC Open Access Newsletter
Editor, Open Access News blog
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/
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