Copyright and other impediments to scientific communication

Maurice B. Visscher

doi:10.1109/tpc.1977.6591605

IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication Nov 1977 OA PDF

Copyright and other impediments to scientific communication

Maurice B. Visscher University of Minnesota

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paid circulation and a smaller base over which to distrib ute the expenses of the publications program, driving up unit costs to unacceptable levels.Such appreciable increases in cost would defeat the Society's efforts to maintain the broad and effective distribution of its publications."The Society therefore urges that the systematic library reproduction of copyrighted scientific articles without permission of or payment to the publisher will have a deleterious effect on the dissemination of chemical knowledge and on efforts to promote scientific research in the field of chemistry."If unlicensed and unpaid-for dissemination of such journals or the articles or data contained therein is accomplished through remote-user retrieval from central information sys tems rather than by photoduplication, the result will be the same, namely, the elimination of the nonprofit publisher's ability to recover its expenses through sales of its publications and hence a negation of its ability to continue publishing activities.The only realistic publishing alternative to the elimination of the system of economic incentive and financial return estab lished by copyright is government or government-subsidized dissemination.However, this m T ist be considered unacceptable to both scientists and the general public.It necessarily involves official bureaucratic control over the choice of works to re ceive exposure, whether in conventional printed form or by computer storage and retrieval, as well as the potential for suppression of unorthodox views.

Journal: IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication
Published: 1977-11-01
DOI: 10.1109/tpc.1977.6591605
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