Mike Rosing wrote: > 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. >
Yes, but this article referred to articles not under this requirement due to funding; otherwise, 'self-governance' would not have been an option in the first place. > Patience, persistence, truth, > Dr. mike > -pete
