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Scientific publishing is having to change rapidly to respond to growing pressure for free access to published research
IN A letter penned in 1676, Isaac Newton famously wrote, “If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.” Although it is debatable whether Newton was being modest or making a barbed comment towards his correspondent (a competitor of short stature) the phrase epitomises views of how science progresses—with the speedy and open publishing of discoveries so that others may make use of them to push back the frontiers of human understanding.
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