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Nature 426, 7 (6 November 2003) | doi:10.1038/426007a

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Preprint server seeks way to halt plagiarists

Jim Giles

An unusual case of plagiarism has struck ArXiv, the popular physics preprint server at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, resulting in the withdrawal of 22 papers.In the light of the incident, Cornell physicist Paul Ginsparg, who developed the archive, says that he now intends to investigate measures to prevent such misdemeanours from recurring.