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Science 4 September 1998:
Vol. 281. no. 5382, pp. 1459 - 1460
DOI: 10.1126/science.281.5382.1459

Policy Forum

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY:
Who Should Own Scientific Papers?

Steven Bachrach, R. Stephen Berry, Martin Blume, Thomas von Foerster, Alexander Fowler, Paul Ginsparg, Stephen Heller, Neil Kestner, Andrew Odlyzko, Ann Okerson, Ron Wigington, Anne Moffat

Electronic publication has changed the relationship between publisher and scientist. This Policy Forum argues, because Federally-supported science is a public good, that authors of works based on such support should retain copyright, and issue licenses to their publishers.


S. Bachrach is in the Department of Chemistry, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL 60115, USA. R. S. Berry is in the Searle Chemistry Department, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA. M. Blume is at the Brookhaven National Laboratory, Brookhaven, NY 11973, USA. T. von Foerster is at Springer-Verlag, New York, NY 10010, USA. A. Fowler is with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, San Francisco, CA 94103-4832, USA. P. Ginsparg is in the Theory Division Department, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, 87545, USA. S. Heller is at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agriculture Library, Beltsville, MD 20705-2351, USA. N. Kestner is in the Department of Chemistry, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803, USA. A. Odlyzko is at AT&T Labs Research, Florham Park, NJ 07932, USA. A. Okerson is with the Yale University Library, New Haven, CT 06502-8240, USA. R. Wigington is a retired staff member of the American Chemical Society, Columbus, OH 43220, USA. A. Moffat is with the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Chicago, IL 60637, USA.

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