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SCIENTIFIC PUBLISHING
A statement on scientific publishing at a time of heightened national security was released on Feb. 15 by an ad hoc group of 33 journal editors and others who are involved with scientific publishing. The group met in an invitation-only session on Jan. 10 in Washington, D.C., to begin crafting the statement (C&EN, Jan. 27, page 46). "We are committed to dealing responsibly and effectively with safety and security issues that may be raised by papers submitted for publication, and to increasing our capacity to identify such issues as they arise," reads the statement. It continues: "Scientists and their journals should consider the appropriate level and design of processes to accomplish effective review of papers that raise such security issues. Journals in disciplines that have attracted numbers of such papers have already devised procedures that might be employed as models in considering process design." "The statement does not necessarily supplant existing policies" established by journal publishers, says Gordon G. Hammes, who is editor of Biochemistry, an American Chemical Society journal, and a biochemistry professor at Duke University. "The statement indicates that all of us will be on the lookout for national security issues in manuscripts. The group intends to meet in the future to monitor what is happening with regard to the issues discussed and to take other actions as deemed necessary." "The signers did act only as individuals, as there was not time for most to engage in discussions with the organizations they represent," says Nick Cozzarelli, editor of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. "However, the individuals were aware that institutional affiliations would be attached to their names, and I, for example, felt that I should do something which was consonant with the National Academy of Sciences and with PNAS. I assume most did likewise." |
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