An
embargo policy refers to the decision or rule that prohibits or limits trade, usually between countries, for political, economic, or social reasons. It restricts the buying, selling, or exchanging of goods, services, or sometimes even information between the parties involved.
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Violations of the
conference embargo policy will result in revocation of the news organization's credentials to cover the meeting.
The AAAS President's press breakfast will begin at 7:45 a.m. on 16 February, followed by the first news briefing at 9:00 a.m. Additional information on AAAS Annual Meeting news offerings can be provided in advance to reporters who ensure adherence to
the embargo policy.
Any media outlet or press representative (journalists, reporters, photographers, etc.) wishing to attend the annual congress of EAACI and / or other events of EAACI must adhere to the EAACI media and
embargo policy.
Authors may not discuss their work with the media until 1 week before the mailing date or 1 week before online posting of the article, whichever is earlier, and must ensure that the media representatives agree to abide by
the embargo policy.
The longer that people speculated, the more absurd
the embargo policy became.
Penguin Book Group ended
its embargo policy so that all ebook titles would be available to libraries at the same time as in the consumer ones are issued.
The embargo policy is designed precisely to avoid the rampant speculation that we were seeing on the web, even before the paper was published.
Releasing it earlier would have broken
the embargo policy that I signed in agreeing to have my work published in Nature.