On Sun, 16 Feb 2003, Pete Capelli wrote:

> http://abc.net.au/news/scitech/2003/02/item20030216103135_1.htm
>
> "Self-governance," the editors say, is "an alternative to government review
> of forthcoming journal articles."
>
> I don't edit any science journals, but I would expect there is no law
> requiring 'government review'.  So what are the editors talking about?

Depends on the subject and who paid for the research.  If the DOE pays
for something that might be interesting for patenting, they want to
make sure an article doesn't get published before the paperwork is in for
the patents.  So that's not totally unreasonable.

Patience, persistence, truth,
Dr. mike

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