[mobglob-discuss] Fw: Bush Admin limiting scholarly publishing

[Paul Browning]

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Subject: Bush Admin limiting scholarly publishing


Attn: Corporate Influence Working Group
RE: academic freedom, US imposing restrictions
on scientific research texts of certain
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From: Jane Franklin,
Date: 10/24/03
RE: Bush Administration now limiting scholarly publishing by Cuban
From: "Debra Evenson",
Date: 10/24/03 9:45 AM

New U.S. Treasury Department Rules Cast Chill Over Scientific Publishing

Engineers are warning that rules issued by the U.S. Treasury
Department this month could restrict the free exchange of scientific
information.

The Bush administration says the Institute of Electrical and
Electronics Engineers, with more than 350,000 members worldwide, must
stop editing scholarly papers submitted by researchers living in
countries under a U.S. trade embargo, or apply for a special license
to do so.

On Oct. 1 the Treasury Department informed the Institute that editing
a research paper is equivalent to providing a service to authors and
therefore violates U.S. trade restrictions that prevent U.S.-based
organizations from doing business with countries such as Cuba, Iran,
Iraq, Libya and Sudan.

"U.S. persons may not provide [an embargoed author] substantive or
artistic alterations or enhancement of the manuscript, and IEEE may
not facilitate the provision of such alterations or enhancements,"
the director of the Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets
Control wrote in a letter to the IEEE. Trade policy prohibits "the
reordering of paragraphs or sentences, correction of syntax, grammar
and replacement of inappropriate words by U.S. persons."
The IEEE must now apply for a special license to edit papers from
researchers in trade embargoed nations.

Concerned that it may have otherwise violated U.S. trade laws, the
IEEE had already stopped editing papers written by members in the
embargoed countries, and had prevented those engineers from viewing
its journals online.

In a statement issued after the Treasury Department's decision, the
IEEE said it would apply for a special license immediately and resume
editing papers as soon as the license was granted.
Kenneth Foster, a professor of bioengineering and an IEEE member,
worries the Treasury Department's decision will have a chilling
effect on scientific publishing.

"What [the letter] describes as needing a license is exactly what every
journal in the world does," he told the Chronicle of Higher Education.

From: http://www.caut.ca/english/bulletin/2003_oct/news/sciencepub.asp




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