March 5, 2004

Publishers Grapple With Trade Embargoes

By LILA GUTERMAN

Some flout moratorium on papers by scientists from 4 countries

As scientific publishers struggle to understand how U.S. trade embargoes affect them, one large scholarly group has decided to defy U.S. Treasury Department regulations. In mid-February the American Chemical Society ended its own temporary moratorium on publishing papers by scientists in countries under such embargoes -- Cuba, Iran, Libya, and Sudan.

The society, which publishes 32 journals, adopted the

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