Publishers Grapple With Trade Embargoes.

Looks at the struggle of scientific publishers in understanding how U.S. trade embargoes affect them. Decision of the American Chemical Society to end its own temporary moratorium after a ruling by the U.S. Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) stated that publishers would need special licenses to edit papers submitted by researchers in embargoed countries; Steps taken by other scholarly publishers to deal with the OFAC regulations; Responses of scholarly publishers to the regulations.