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Nature 410, 1023 (26 April 2001) | doi:10.1038/35074204

Open Innovation Challenges

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The Internet has revolutionized how we live and work — with dynamic new technologies it is set to change the way in which science reaches its audience.

This week's Commentary pages offer three highly individual perspectives on future developments in access to the primary scientific literature. In the following article, Tim Berners-Lee and James Hendler present their vision of a semantic web, where new technologies will allow computers, as well as people, to understand and communicate with each other and hence to revolutionize scientific publishing.