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British plans to plot a strategy for research by untested iterative consultation are jeopardized by haste and are potentially flawed by the appearance of consensus.
This year's gathering of publishers at Frankfurt has made it plain that the electronic distribution of research data is no longer in the future, but in the here and now.
