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- Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 17:33:13 +0100
- From: Michael Jost <jo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 17:11:28 +0100
From: Michael Jost <jo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Internet in Bibliotheken <INETBIB@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Hallo,
folgende Nachricht fand ich beunruhigend.
Es geht darum, dass offenbar eine US-Regierungsbehörde unter Androhung
drakonischer Strafen US-amerikanischen Herausgebern/Verlagen verbietet,
wissenschaftliche Artikel von Autoren aus gewissen "Schurkenstaaten" zu
publizieren. Das Verbot steht in Zusammenhang mit den bestehenden
Handelsembargos.
Ist jemandem darüber mehr bekannt?
Beste Grüsse,
- Michael Jost
PS: Englischer Text am Ende der Nachricht.
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Betreff: [biblio-info-sociedad] Fwd: Los EE.UU. prohíben la publicación
de artículos de científicos de Cuba y otros
países._Incluye_el_envío_de_reprint
Datum: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 14:10:12 -0800 (PST)
Von: Zapopan Muela <zapopanmuela@xxxxxxxxx>
Rückantwort: biblio-info-sociedad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
An: biblio-info-sociedad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Bibliomex
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English below -->
Querid@s <mailto:Querid@s> amig@s <mailto:amig@s>,
El gobierno de los EE.UU. que se jacta de ser el paladin defensor de la
Libertad Intelectual ha asestado un nuevo golpe a dicha libertad --ver
mensaje adjunto abajo-- al prohibirle a las editoras de EE.UU. la
publicacion de articulos cientificos de cientificos de Cuba, Iran, Irak,
Libia y Sudan, donde ya dicho gobierno ejerce un criminal bloqueo
economico y comercial. Y peor aun los cientificos de dichos paises no
podran tampoco obtener reimpresiones de articulos o documentos pasados
por la misma regulacion.
La situacion es critica por la sencilla razon de que lo que los
gobiernos hagan y deshagan no debe afectar la libertad intelectual de
sus gobernados.
Hoy son estos paises, pero luego sera Haiti, luego Venezuela, luego
Corea del Norte y luego quien decida el gobierno del imperio. No porque
no afecte a Mexico, a Brasil, Argentina, etc. no debemos mostrar
solidaridad con los pueblos de estos paises --incluidos claro esta sus
cientificos de todas las disciplinas incluidas las bibliotecarias y
documentalistas.
Toda la comunidad bibliotecaria y documentalista latinoamericana y de
todo el mundo debemos oponernos a dicha agresion a la libertad
intelectual por parte del gobierno del imperio del planeta. Y tambien
debemos oponernos a los bloqueos de dichos paises y de todos los paises
del mundo. Ello ayudara incluso hasta a los mismos empresarios de los
EE.UU. quienes tambien han sufrido perdidas billonarias junto con los
pueblos de dichos paises bloqueados.
Hoy me gustaria saber que opina el FAIFE, y la IFLA que cuestionan la
supuesta falta de libertad intelectual de los gobiernos de todo el
planeta (la paja), pero no denunican (las vigas) de los de EE.UU. y los
de las otras 7 potencias.
De nuevo, como los colegas españoles, debemos repudiar este atentado
contra la libertad intelectual de nuestros colegas de dichos pueblos
incluidos los estadounidenses. Invito a toda la comunidad mundial IFLA,
FAIFE, ALA, AMBAC, CEBIP, etc. a que se pronuncien contra dicha nefasta
regulacion del gobierno estadounidense y tambien contra el embargo
contra dichos pueblos. Haciendo una carta de protesta ante los diversos
medios de comunicacion de cada pais. Haciendo una declaracion
internacional. Haciendo un sitio Web con formato de denuncia donde los
colegas de todo el mundo se sumen. Haciendo un weblog. Y cualquier otro
tipo de manifestaciones que le den un mensaje claro al gobierno del
imperio estadounidense que la libertad intelectual no puede ser esclava
por los conflictos belicos o de diferencias politicas entre los gobiernos.
Solidariamente,
Zapopan Muela
Bibliotecario mexicano
María_Victoria_Guzman <mvguzman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
From: María_Victoria_Guzman
To: "'Zapopan Muela'"
Subject: Se_prohíbe_la_publicación_de_artículos_de_científi
cos_de_Cuba_y_otros_países._Incluye_el_envío_de_reprint
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 14:11:35 -0600
Hola Zapopan
Te envío este mensaje para que lo reenvíes a la lista si te parece
pertinente. Se trata de una de las medidas que el gobierno de USA ha
dictado contra los científicos e investigadores de Cuba y otros
países. La medida considera también la prohibición de envío de
reprints de artículos publicados por investigadores norteamericanos
a sus colegas de los países listados.
La ley o regulación prohíbe a los editores de las revistas
científicas norteamericanas publicar en ellas los trabajos
científicos realizados en cualquiera de los países sometidos al
embargo económico y comercial. Estos son Irán, Irak, Libia, Sudán y
Cuba. La pena por infringir esta norma puede ser multa de hasta
50.000 dólares y hasta 10 años de cárcel.
Los colegas de España han envíado una carta firmada a la prensa (El
PAIS) como protesta.
Un abrazo
Maria Victoria
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Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 10:19:34 -0800
> From: Journal Agricultural and Food Chemistry <JAFC@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: edilso@xxxxxxxxxxxx, lakleinschmidt@xxxxxxxxxxx,
mscanlan@xxxxxxx
> Subject: JF035175h
>
> Dear Dr Reguera:
>
> I am responding to your e-mail of Jan 27, 2004, inquiring
about the
status
> of your manuscript, "Physico-Chemical Changes in the Hull of
the Corn
> Grains During Their Alkaline Cooking," JF035175h. I had hoped
to have
had better news for you of a situation we find ourselves in, not
of your
making. Here is the situation:
An agency of the U.S. government, the Office of Foreign Assets
Control
> (OFAC), has recently issued a ruling that prohibits
publishers from
editing
> papers from Cuba, Iran, Iraq, Libya, and Sudan, all countries
under U.S.
> trade embargo. The ACS and its editors strongly condemn this
decision,
and
> we are working aggressively and urgently with many other
publishers to
> overturn it.
>
> In the meantime, the ACS has reluctantly declared a
moratorium on
> publishing papers from these countries. To do otherwise would
be to
> subject the ACS, including its editors and staff, to the risk
of severe
> civil and criminal penalties. This is not a policy; rather,
it is a
> short-term necessity to avoid violating U.S. law as
interpreted by OFAC.
>
> We are confident that we will prevail in our efforts to
remove this
> obstacle to the traditional open exchange of scientific
information. I
ask
> for your patience and understanding as we bring pressure on
the federal
> government for a speedy resolution of the matter.
>
> I can offer you two options:
>
> * You can withdraw your manuscript and submit it to another
journal.
> * You can leave your manuscript with us, on hold, in hopes
that the
> legal issue described above can be resolved and JAFC can
continue to
> process your manuscript.
>
> Please understand that option 2 may take some time, and there
is no
> guarantee that it will be resolved in favor of the ACS
position in a
> reasonable period of time. So it is possible that we may
ultimately
> need
> to reject your paper because the OFAC ruling is sustained.
>>
> Please let me know how you want to proceed.
>
> Best Wishes,
>
> James N. Seiber
> Editor
>
> Cc: L. Kleinschmidt
> M. Scanlan < >> c
>
> Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry
> Department of Environmental Toxicology
> University of California
> One Shields Avenue
> Davis CA 95616-8588
> USA
>
> (530) 754-7005 (PHONE)
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> JAFC@xxxxxxxxxxx
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Chemical & Engineering News
Copyright © 2004 American Chemical Society
January 26, 2004
Volume 82, Number 04
CENEAR 82 04 p. 5
ISSN 0009-2347
Counterproductive Restrictions
RUDY M. BAUM
Editor-in-chief
PHOTO BY DAVID J. HANSON
T he american chemical society and other scientific and technical
publishers were blindsided last year by a ruling by the U.S.
Treasury
Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) that
effectively
prohibits publication of scientific papers from Iran, Iraq, Libya,
Sudan, and Cuba, all of which are under U.S. trade embargoes.
Violation of the trade embargo law can result in a fine of up to
$50,000
and imprisonment for up to 10 years.
ACS is still scrambling to craft a policy for dealing with the OFAC
ruling for the editors of its 32 journals. The policy must
simultaneously adhere to U.S. law and respect the independence
of the
journal editors and the ethical principle that only scientific
merit
determines whether a paper is accepted for publication. In 2003,
ACS
journals received 195 papers originating from the five
countries, with
the bulk, 170, coming from Iran. ACS journals received a total
of 24,222
papers in 2003.
At their annual meeting earlier this month in Phoenix, ACS journal
editors adopted a resolution condemning the OFAC policy. It
reads: "The
ACS journal editors unanimously express their vehement
opposition to all
laws and regulations that have the effect of restricting the open,
rldwide exchange of scientific information. In particular, the
editors
urge ACS governance and staff to aggressively pursue all
appropriate
means to bring about the speedy removal of legal obstacles to
publication, by the customary process, of papers submitted to
the ACS
from countries under U.S. trade embargo."
A few ACS journal editors urged the society's Publications
Division to
ignore the OFAC ruling and publish papers from the embargoed
countries
as a matter of First Amendment free speech rights.
The OFAC ruling came in response to a request from the Institute of
Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) concerning publishing
papers
from Iran. What followed is a bit convoluted, but the upshot of
the OFAC
ruling and interpretation of the pertinent laws by ACS counsel
is that
the society is prohibited from providing peer reviewer comments to
authors of papers from the five embargoed countries and from
providing
any editorial services to such authors. According to OFAC, that
includes
"activities such as the reordering of paragraphs or sentences,
correction of syntax, grammar, and replacement of inappropriate
words."
OFAC also ruled that IEEE "would not be prohibited from accepting
camera-ready copies of manuscripts." However, in this age of
electronic
delivery of scientific and technical journals, there really
isn't any
such thing as "camera-ready" copy.
Let me be blunt. The OFAC ruling is wrongheaded and
counterproductive.
The free exchange of scientific and technical information is almost
always in the best interests of science and our nation. In the
darkest
days of the Cold War, the U.S. government encouraged contacts
between
Western scientists and their counterparts in the Soviet Union
and other
Eastern bloc nations, including the publication of the few
papers such
scientists could convince authorities to allow them to submit to
Western
journals.
The same holds true today for scientists i Iran, Iraq, Libya,
Sudan,
and Cuba. Publishing peer-reviewed, properly edited research
results in
Western journals could in no conceivable way enhance the economic
situation of these countries. It may, however, nurture the ideal
of the
free, unfettered exchange of information, an ideal too often
suppressed
in totalitarian nations. It may give scientists, some of whom
are at the
forefront of reform movements, hope that their efforts might
someday
yield fruit.
Under no circumstances can ACS be a partner to violating U.S.
law. Such
an action would jeopardize both the society and its employees.
But ACS
must, and I am sure will, work diligently on its own and in
conjunction
with other like-minded scientific and technical societies to
have the
OFAC ruling overturned.
As individuals, I urge ACS members to take up the OFAC ruling
with their
congressional representatives. Trade embargoes may be legitimate
tools
for changing the behavior of nations, but they should not be
extended to
blocking the free flow of scientific and technical information.
Thanks for reading.
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