A large group of scientific publishers recently won a copyright infringement case against Texaco, which they said had routinely photocopied articles illegally.

Chemistry Central is a for-profit scientific publisher specializing in open access publication in chemistry.

Butterworth, a British scientific publisher, had this view: "Our responsibilities are to individuals who want to read books, not to governments."

The 63-year-old Mr. Maxwell is also a formidable educational and scientific publisher.

Oh, and I fully second your criticism of the scientific publishers.

It takes a fair while to do properly and no scientific publisher has ever paid me a cent.

Their rhetoric has traditionally been of partnering with scientists, but the truth is that for some time now scientific publishers have been anti-science and anti-publication.

Plenum is a scientific publisher based in New York.

"Other scientific publishers are seeing the same kind of thing," he added.

Teubner in Leipzig published the book, as there was no well-established American scientific publisher at the time.