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MISTICA: Ban on scientific publications in USA

From: Rosa Maria Torres ([email protected])
Date: mi� mar 03 2004 - 00:05:56 AST

> De: Enrique Soto
> Enviado: Martes, 02 de Marzo de 2004 08:56 p.m.
> Asunto: Increible ojala todos firmen
>
> Increible, circulenlo y ojala lo firmen todos los cientificos del mundo,
> esto es uno mas de los actos del nuevo totalitarismo Americano
>
> Ban on scientific publications
>
> Under the terms of the USA trade embargo, a publisher
> of a journal that accepts a scientific paper from an
> author residing in Libya, Iran, Iraq, Sudan or Cuba
> can be fined US $50,000 per case and be sent to jail
> for up to 10 years. Some professional organizations,
> (American Chemical Society, IEEE and AAAS), have in
> the past declared that they will ignore the ruling.
> The American Chemical Society alone received 195
> papers from the banned countries. But the current
> policy under President Bush is going towards
> enforcement of the trade bans. As a result there has
> been a meeting of science publishers in Washington
> recently to discuss how to resolve the situation and
> guarantee freedom of scientific publication. If you
> want to support the publishers in their effort you can
> sign a petition at: http://www.PetitionOnline.com/PWC/
> The site has a more detailed explanation of the
> situationand links to further editorials, for example
> http://pubs.acs.org/isubscribe/journals/cen/82/i04/html/8204edit.html
>
>
> Dr. Enrique Soto E.
> Instituto de Fisiolog�a BUAP
> Puebla, M�xico
> email: [email protected]

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