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Nature 413, 671 (18 October 2001) | doi:10.1038/35099599

The best and worst of times

David R. Worlock1

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What winners will emerge from the battles over access to scholarly data?

The Internet has caused a revolution in research. Scientists now work remotely from one another but in tightly organized groups, with an immediacy of communication that demands instant availability of the corpus of knowledge on which their work is based.