Counter productive Restrictions.

Comments on the ruling by the U.S. Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) prohibiting the publication of scientific papers from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Sudan and Cuba. Plan of the American Chemical Society to craft a policy in response to the OFAC ruling; Significance of the free flow of scientific and technical information for the benefit of science; Role of Western journal publications in enhancing the economic situation of Iran, Iraq, Libya, Sudan and Cuba.