Embargoed Science

by Vincent Kiernan

The popular notion of a lone scientist privately toiling long hours in a laboratory, striking upon a great discovery, and announcing it to the world is a romanticized fiction. Vincent Kiernan's Embargoed Science reveals the true process behind science news: an elite few scholarly journals control press coverage through a mechanism known as an embargo. The journals distribute advance copies of their articles to hundreds and sometimes thousands...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252030974
• ISBN13: 9780252030970
• Release Date: August 2006
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.3"