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Embargo policies and online publication

There is a post on Cosmic Blog about journals' embargo policies, specifically those of the journals Nature and Science. Donald Kennedy, Editor-in-Chief of Science, is quoted from a talk he gave at a conference "Best practices: covering science in cyberspace" earlier this month. Dr Kennedy suggested that print versions of papers in future might be much shorter and "user-friendly", with the full account, complete with multimedia, appearing online only.

"It's going to create a problem for the people who try to manage science news," Kennedy said. "My guess is that the embargo system will either be abandoned, in which case it'll be a free-for-all ... [or] it's certainly likely that embargoes will be shortened, and the distribution of news to mainstream news media - which used to happen in clumps so that embargoes for an entire clump could be organized - is going to happen in driblets. So there will have to be a more confusing embargo environment."

Nature's embargo policy can be found here, and an article about how its press office operates is here.

Posted by Maxine Clarke on March 26, 2007
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