NAVEEN VILAS KULKARNI
BRNS-RESEARCH SCHOLAR
PHYSICS DEPARTMENT
UNIV. OF PUNE
PUNE-411007
P.No.-(020)5691712,5692678
ext: 414,427
Cell No. :9822647276

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Dear all,

Here is a mail from Rajendra Kshirsagar to all of us.

Yours sincerely,
System Administrator
(sysadmn@...)

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2004 14:18:49 +0100 (CET)
From: kshirsag@...
To: root@...
Subject: [Fwd: [All-user] Petition against scientific embargo]

Hello!
Could you please forward the following to all-usres?
Regards
Rajendra

>
> This email is to draw your attention to a ban on scientific
> publications for authors of countries for which the USA declared a
> trade embargo.
>
> Under the terms of the 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, amongst others the 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/
>
> and comments on the issue and allows you to see who else has signed.
>
>
> ----- End forwarded message -----
>
> Mariano Mendez
> M.Mendez@...