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Nature Medicine 10, 109 (2004)
doi:10.1038/nm0204-109a

US pressures publishers to honor trade embargoes

Potter Wickware1

  1. San Francisco

A US government agency better known for seizing the assets of dope smugglers has become an arbiter of scientific publishing. Bowing to pressure from the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), a branch of the US Treasury Department, the American Society for Microbiology (ASM) on 12 January stopped accepting papers submitted to its 11 journals from Sudan, Libya, Iran and Cuba.