April 16, 2004

U.S. Lifts Limits on Editing Articles by Scholars in Embargoed Countries

By LILA GUTERMAN

The U.S. Treasury Department has ended months of confusion among scholarly publishers by ruling that an engineering society may edit, without restriction, articles written by authors in countries under trade embargoes.

The apparent reversal of government policy, which previously had forbidden editing without a special license, should also allow other scholarly publishers to edit articles written by authors from countries such as Cuba, Iran, Libya, and Sudan, according to a Treasury

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