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Commentary

Nature 410, 1024-1025 (26 April 2001) | doi:10.1038/35074210

Open Innovation Challenges

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The self-archiving initiative

See associated Correspondence: Walker, Nature 411, 521 - 522 (May 2001), Nature 411, 522 (May 2001)

Stevan Harnad1

  1. Stevan Harnad is in the Intelligence/Agents/Multimedia Group, Department of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, Highfield, Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK.

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Freeing the refereed research literature online.

Unlike the authors of books and magazine articles, who write for royalty or fees, the authors of refereed journal articles write only for 'research impact'. To be cited and built on in the research of others, their findings have to be accessible to their potential users.